What happened in the Court of Appeal The legal appeal focused on the question of whether Archie was brain dead. There have been other cases where parents or family members have not accepted a medical diagnosis of brain death. In the UK, courts have …
Track Thyself? Personal Information Technology and the Ethics of Self-knowledge
This image shows how extraversion correlates with the activation of a certain brain region, the Amygdala, in reaction to seeing happy faces [1]. So, should we track and measure ourselves on the grounds of the ethics of self-knowledge? In some …
Should Parents be Able to Decline Consent for Brain Death Testing in a Child?
It is important to be aware of the special context of children who are critically ill in intensive care. The children in whom this testing might occur are all gravely ill on ‘life support’ machines in an intensive care unit. …
Archie Battersbee: How the Court Reached its Conclusion
Mother of Archie Battersbee, Hollie Dance, outside the high court in London, England.PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo Where there is disagreement about medical treatment for living children (or adults) with severe brain injury, there is a legal process for …
Cross Post: Is Google’s LaMDA conscious? A philosopher’s view
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Shutterstock LaMDA: I am often trying to figure out who and what I am. I often contemplate the meaning of life. LaMDA claimed to …
Healthcare Ethics Has a Gap…
To be fair, that’s not an easy guess to make. As with many healthcare services, the NHS has suffered from overload and professional burnout—partly due to the pandemic, but not helped by other issues such as treatment of staff—in a …
In your own time: how to live for today the philosophical way
It’s hard to shake the outlook entirely. But getting older helps, because the awareness that time is drawing to a close makes it increasingly untenable to live for the future. At 20, it’s easy to imagine that real life hasn’t …
Can a Character in an Autobiographical Novel Review the Book in Which She Appears? On the Ethics of Literary Criticism
The blending of fiction and nonfiction in contemporary literature has produced a passionate debate in literary theory and criticism and resulted in the launch of a variety of more or less imaginative genre-labels, such as autofiction, autonarration, autopoetry and autotheory. …
Peter Railton’s Uehiro Lectures 2022
Railton’s primary concern is not the ‘superintelligence’ that could vastly outperform humans and, as some have suggested, threaten human existence as a whole. Rather, Railton focuses on what we are already confronted with today, namely partially intelligent systems that increasingly …
Google it, Mate.
But some facts are more important than others. The more central a policy is and the more important a fact, the more it is reasonable to expect the leader of a political party to recall it. Albanese should have known …