Focusing on standpoint harm reduction requires S to place themselves relative to others and other social groups, and to consider what their positionality means for S’s potential blindspots. Standpoint harm reduction thus centres learning as an ethical horizon, requiring S…
Compensation: finally, we need to clarify who pays when things go wrong, since new technologies not only generate great benefits but also impose significant burdens and harms. Amazon’s Alexa recently told a ten-year-old girl to touch a live plug with…
One glaring exception appears to be the majority of western pharmaceutical companies that continue to supply medicines and equipment. Shutterstock In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and overwhelming destruction of property and loss of innocent lives, a number of…
8 April 2022 h14-16 Greenwhich Mean Time / 16-18 CEST (check your local time here) You can preview the paper here. Videos of prior talks can be found on the Neural Mechanisms YouTube channel. The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar entitled…
Keynote speaker: Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London) Registrations now open and the deadline for the early bird rate is 14th April. More info and registration The Philosophy and Psychiatry Summer School returns this year, 14-15 July, at…
In sum, I have argued that we have an unacknowledged reason to go beyond regarding future generations as our equals and instead make sacrifices for their benefit: because this is what they deserve. An objection levied against some ethical theories…
Evidence for psychedelic moral bioenhancement Clearly there is much more research to be done before we can draw any solid conclusions here, but if it turned out that psychedelics were effective and safe moral enhancers, what would follow from that?…
“Given the overwhelming evidence, it seems obvious that we should all be physically active. It’s essential if you want to live a healthy and fulfilling life into old age”. It is perhaps surprising, therefore, how little is done to ensure people take…
Videos of prior talks can be found on the Neural Mechanisms YouTube channel. Embodied simulation and its role in cognition The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar— “Believing Conspiracy Theories: A Bayesian Approach to Belief Protection”—will be delivered by Nina Poth…
Runner Up: Avital Fried – Statistical Evidence and the Criminal Verdict Asymmetry Honourable Mentions: Lise du Buisson – How should career choice ethics address ignorance-related harms? Undergraduate Category Winner: Lily Moore-Eissenberg – Legal Proof and Structural Injustice: Should jurors be…
Every year, in the month of Phalguna (Feb-March), the birth of Lord Chaitanya is celebrated as Sri Gaura Purnima. Lord Chaitanya advented Himself in Navadipa, West Bengal in the year 1407 of the Shaka Era on the Purnima (full moon)…
Robyn Bluhm. Self‐fulfilling prophecies: The influence of gender stereotypes on functional neuroimaging research on emotion. Hypatia. doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01311.x Shen-yi Liao and Vanessa Carbonell. Materialized Oppression in Medical Tools and Technologies. American Journal of Bioethics. doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2044543 [embedded content] Website: morgankthompson.com Sam Liao…
[embedded content] Many people accept that, to protect public health, it is sometimes acceptable, or morally obligatory, to restrict people’s liberties. But there’s a lot of disagreement about how far these restrictions should go, and whom they should apply to:…
In ancient Greece, Stoic philosophers believed the Earth would be periodically destroyed by fire (Ekpyrosis) in a ritual cleansing before starting again. Stoics usually believed this event occurred when civilisation was at its very height of sophistication and complexity (like…
