International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

Samuel Iglesias, “Ethical Biological Naturalism and the Case Against Moral Status for AIs” Honourable Mentions: James French: How can we address the gender gap in anaesthesia and the wider medical workplace? Undergraduate Category: Lukas Joosten presenting his paper at the prize Kyle…

The requirement constitutes a kind of vaccine pass; without proof of vaccination, healthcare workers are prevented from continuing working in the NHS in a frontline role. Other types of COVID passes have been introduced elsewhere, such as the so-called “green…

Unappealing views can sometimes be true, unfortunately. But in any case, we don’t need to be moral relativists to say that there are reasons to respect local norms and values of a country we visit. Indeed, respect for local norms…

A man was found to have Huntingdon’s disease (HD). That meant that his children might be affected. He refused to allow his clinicians to notify his daughter (who was pregnant) of the possibility that she might have HD, or be…

Being honor bred, with one And yet many people seem to be drawn to philosophy as a “life hack“. For example, there’s Ryan Holiday’s Stoicism: Practical Philosophy You Can Actually Use and Massimo Pigliucci’s blog and forthcoming book How to be a…

That is, we can always debate whether certain words justifiably caused someone hurt, regardless of the offender’s intentions. This is because we think people have more control over what words they find hurtful in contrast to how their bodies react…