Today (1 November) is ‘world vegan day’. This is a good moment to reflect on a decision that the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics took almost exactly a year ago. In October 2021, we chose to firmly commit to…
The thing about being poor is not that you can’t be happy – and we were very happy, just the three of us with nothing – but that you are also scared, cold, hungry, uncertain and tired a lot of…
Welcome to the Brains Blog’s Symposium series on the Cognitive Science of Philosophy. The aim of the series is to examine the use of diverse methods to generate philosophical insight. Each symposium is comprised of two parts. In the target…
northern bank of the Yamuna exactly opposite from Seva Kunja in Vrindavana, where the rasa-lila took place. Some say that Lakshmi Devi is still engaged in penance at Bilvavana even today, and a very famous festival is held at the…
Takuya Niikawa (Graduate School of Humanities and Faculty of Letters, Kobe University) CFPs * NCCU Philosophical Journal Topical Issue: Knowledge and Action [National Chengchi University is based in Taipei, Taiwan] Submission preliminary deadline: Dec. 31st, 2022 Do beliefs guide actions?…
Zina Ward (Florida State University) will be staying with us as well! We’d like to thank the previous associate editors for their contributions, and we’re excited for this next chapter. Stay tuned for lots of new content in the coming…
Courtesy -From Chaurasi-Kosa Vraja Mandal Parikrama Book By Sri Rajashekara DasaSri Bahula Devi Mandir, Bahulavan Therefore this night-time bath at Radha-kunda is called the adiratri-snana (mid-night bath) and it is the only snana or ritual bath in the Vedic calendar that…
Suppose, first, they weren’t morally ignorant; suppose that Edward Colston or John Hawkins knew that slavery was wrong. Perhaps it’s obvious to any competent adult that slavery is wrong, and they simply ignored what they well knew. Perhaps they were…
One reason that a gardener may be unmoved by the plight of the slime mould is that, for all of its impressive navigational abilities, it is highly doubtful that it has phenomenal consciousness. This is the ability to ‘feel’ things,…
NATIONAL OXFORD UEHIRO PRIZE IN PRACTICAL ETHICS 2023• All graduate and undergraduate students (full and part-time) currently enrolled at any UK university, in any subject, are invited to enter the National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics by submitting an…
Turing, A. M. (1947). “Lecture to the London Mathematical Society on 20 February 1947.” In D. Ince (ed.), Mechanical Intelligence (87–105). Amsterdam: North-Holland.(1) “Digital” for discrete or discontinuous variables and “analog” for continuous variables, at least with respect to variables…
It is also important to recognize that there are ethical reasons for thinking in certain ways, or with certain concepts. As those working in ‘conceptual engineering’ have brought out especially clearly in recent years, the use of certain concepts or…
Little Bruno was encouraged to work in the vineyards. “I was always terrible,” he recalled of his work in the fields. “So I shifted to philosophy.” His most incendiary and compelling book was entitled Où Atterrir?, published in English translation…
He told the Observer in 2020: “What we need is not only to modify the system of production but to get out of it altogether. We should remember that this idea of framing everything in terms of the economy is…
