Srila Kaviraja Goswami writes (Chaitanya Charitamrta-Adilila 11.37.) that Kaliya Krishna Dasa Thakura was one of the principle devotees of Nityananda Prabhu. He knew nothing other than the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Srila Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvati Thākura writes in his …
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Event Summary: Vaccine Policies and Challenge Trials: The Ethics of Relative Risk in Public Health
[embedded content] St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Presented by Dr Sarah Chan, 18 November 2021 In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Sarah Chan explores three key areas of risk in ‘challenge trials’ – the deliberate infection of human …
Mandatory Vaccination Should Be Selective, Not General
Mass youth vaccination could never protect older and medically vulnerable people as effectively as would ensuring that all those older and medically vulnerable people themselves receive the jab. Unlike lockdowns and other restrictions, vaccination is a very low cost and …
Cross Post: Selective lockdowns can be ethically justifiable – here’s why
Jonathan Pugh, Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford; Dominic Wilkinson, Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford, and Julian Savulescu, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University …
Neural Mechanisms Online, 2022!
May 20. Edouard Machery and Luis Favela Feb 11. Grace Lindsay Apr 8. Gualtiero Piccinini Here’s the schedule: Feb 25. Vittorio Gallese Mar 11. Krzysztof Dolega Mar 25. Patricia Churchland The Brains Blog, along with Neural Mechanisms Online, is thrilled …
Cross post: Why COVID passes are not discriminatory (in the way you think they are)
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 …
How we got into this mess, and the way out
But (and this is the main subject of the first volume of The Matter with Things), science and reason say nothing of the kind. Very, very far from it. One could only reach that verdict by deploying a childish pastiche …
NHS and Care Home Mandates Should Take Account of Natural Immunity to COVID
One striking feature of the current UK care home and NHS staff mandate is that it does not allow an exemption for those who have proof of natural immunity. There is now evidence to suggest that natural immunity confers comparable …
Brains Blog Roundtable: Perceptual Representation
We have a really fantastic lineup for our first roundtable: joining us for this session are Ned Block (NYU), Susanna Schellenberg (Rutgers), and Susanna Siegel (Harvard). Join us for a spirited discussion about the state of theorizing in philosophy of …
Cross Post: Should You Stop Wearing A Mask Just Because the Law Gives You Permission To Do So?
Consider the UK government, which now permits its citizens to visit public places without wearing masks, despite surging COVID infection rates. Does that permission mean that people in England now have good reasons to abandon their masks? But we can …