At this point you might be tempted to say that this is all wrong-headed: “there must be a last moment at which I can stop listening to the radio without compromising my baking, and decision theory gets it right that…
Recent advances in anaesthetic techniques – using ultra slow infusions of medicines – mean that it is possible to give them to patients close to death without affecting their breathing. The medicine is given slowly, and the patient made unconscious…
The authors believe the UK medical community should prepare for increased requests for general anaesthesia for end-of-life care, based on current trends in Western Europe and Scandinavia. “It is vital that patients are informed of all the legal options available…
[4] Of course, you want to hear more about what counts as an “acceptable determination” of an indeterminate end. So, as an instrumentally rational agent, you should now buy the book; I promise there is more there! Under ETR, the…
That is, their moral status should be ascertained before treating them like a normal animal. This will require agreeing on what confers moral status and finding ways to detect it. When in doubt, higher moral status should be accorded. Firstly,…
I can now give the first outline of ETR. According to ETR, both the basic given attitudes and the attitudes that constitute that standard exercises of practical reason are intentional actions. Its sole principle of derivation is a version of the Principle of Instrumental…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. One strategy would be to aim for the elimination of the virus within the UK. New Zealand successfully implemented an elimination strategy earlier in…
It is not “moving away from a certain point” – rather, all points are expanding away from all other points. So it’s not hubris at all; our place in the universe is as non-special and unremarkable as all other places….
Sometimes, the fact that something is an accident means we aren’t at fault. Philosopher Bernard Williams imagines a lorry driver who drives safely yet kills a child who runs out in front of his truck. Williams suggests that while the…
WORKSHOP THEMES:• Philosophy of Neuroscience Varia• History of Philosophy of Neuroscience (in celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of thepublication of Patricia Churchland’s Neurophilosophy, MIT Press, 1986) Full CFA: Abstracts: 750 words, due July 1, 2021. MARK YOUR CALENDARS/FIRST CALL FOR…
I lack space to discuss all of these concerns, but want to remark very briefly on two of the most important. Laplane, L., Mantovani, P., Adolphs, R., Chang, H., Mantovani, A., McFall-Ngai, M., Rovelli, C., Sober, E., & Pradeu, T….
What exactly is the message that the NN is supposed to express? Shaw doesn’t make this 100% clear, but at some points she seems to suggest that it is a message about the offender’s moral status. For instance, NN’s might…
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Morten next explained the history behind current neural imaging, and how his own expertise in computer science enabled him to understand the predictive role of emotion in the brain – how pleasure cycles enable survival, and how grasping this aspect…
