synthetic mouse.Weizmann Institute of Sciences Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford; Christopher Gyngell, The University of Melbourne, and Tsutomu Sawai, Hiroshima University In the latest study, the scientists started with collections of stem cells. The conditions created by the external uterus …
Being cheerful on the outside can help you – and others – feel it on the inside
Hampton decided to find out whether cheerfulness was an emotion people have been thinking about for centuries and if the way we think about it has changed. “I discovered that cheerfulness is really a modern phenomenon that begins to emerge …
Video Interview: Prof Peter Railton, AI and moral obligations
[embedded content] In this Thinking Out Loud interview with Katrien Devolder, Philosophy Professor Peter Railton presents his take on how to understand, and interact with, AI. He talks about how AI can have moral obligations towards us, humans, and towards …
Press release: Battersbee appeal at European Court declined
If he were to die while being transferred, that would be a potentially stressful, distressing, and undignified end to this sad and sorry saga. It would be bad for Archie and bad for his family. The European Court provided a …
Sex and Punishment: How Old Do You Have to Be?
In March 2022, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte signed a bill that increased the minimum age for sexual consent from 12 to 16 years. This bill marked a significant change to a previous law that dated back to 1930.[1] International Organisations have …
Press release: Battersbee final* appeal rejected
How common are these disputes?Tragically, for a small number of children who become critically ill each year, medicine reaches its limits. For children like Archie, doctors cannot make them better, and advanced medical techniques and technologies may end up doing …
Epistemic Diligence and Honesty
Written by Rebecca Brown One option, consistent with Miller’s definition, is just to require that the honest agent doesn’t ‘distort’ the fact that she has epistemically unjustified beliefs. So the doctor can tell her patient that she thinks the exercise …
June Huh, deep thinking and the value of idleness | Letters
Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication. With reference to your editorial on maths and poetry (8 July) and the mathematician and would-be poet …
Trump, Johnson, Morrison: is the era of shameless leaders behind us at last? | Brigid Delaney
There has persisted throughout the history of liberal democracies a link between good character and leadership, even if the link has often been maintained tenuously or fraudulently (think of Bill Clinton saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that …
Event Summary: Hope in Healthcare – a talk by Professor Steve Clarke
Transcript https://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/philfac/uehiro/2022-06-23-uehiro-hope-clarke.srt It is widely supposed that it is important to imbue patients undergoing medical procedures with a sense of hope. But why is hope so important in healthcare, if indeed it is? We examine the answers that are currently …