Congratulations to our Winners and Runners up in the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics 2021

How was all this possible? One factor will likely have been Conservative voters staying at home, and a few switched to other right-wing parties. But at her acceptance speech, Morgan acknowledged that it was highly likely that voters who would…

Later Stokes writes, “Perceptual expertise is an epistemic virtue” (p. 182). This claim strikes me as a mistake. Perceptual expertise is narrowly domain-specific; virtues are not–whether they’re characterized as traits or faculties (Turri 2017). On a trait-based approach there’s no…

To back up this general claim, Smithies argues for phenomenal mentalism, which he formulates as follows: References Necessarily, which propositions you have epistemic justification to believe at any given time is determined solely by your phenomenally individuated mental states at…

We had been using the late Steve Pearce and Hanna Pickard’s 2010 paper, “The Moral Content of Psychiatric Treatment”, in teaching the MSt in Practical Ethics at Oxford. In that paper, they argue that moral norm breaking is casually and…

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….

How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know We are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2017: The word has…