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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Terra Nullius, Populus Sine Terra: Who May Settle Antarctica?

References [7] Many influential definitions of a state, following Max Weber, are explicitly territorial. An open question Secondly, states may have a duty to contribute to efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, and maintain the habitability of already…

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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: How Should Career Choice Ethics Address Ignorance-Related Harms?

Focusing on standpoint harm reduction requires S to place themselves relative to others and other social groups, and to consider what their positionality means for S’s potential blindspots. Standpoint harm reduction thus centres learning as an ethical horizon, requiring S…

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Gualtiero Piccinini will livestream “Situated Neural Representations: Solving the Problems of Content” on April 8

8 April 2022 h14-16 Greenwhich Mean Time / 16-18 CEST (check your local time here) You can preview the paper here. Videos of prior talks can be found on the Neural Mechanisms YouTube channel. The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar entitled…

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Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why We Should Negatively Discount the Well-Being of Future Generations

In sum, I have argued that we have an unacknowledged reason to go beyond regarding future generations as our equals and instead make sacrifices for their benefit: because this is what they deserve. An objection levied against some ethical theories…

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Nina Poth and Krys Dolega will livestream “Believing Conspiracy Theories: A Bayesian Approach to Belief Protection” on March 25

Videos of prior talks can be found on the Neural Mechanisms YouTube channel. Embodied simulation and its role in cognition The next Neural Mechanisms Online webinar— “Believing Conspiracy Theories: A Bayesian Approach to Belief Protection”—will be delivered by Nina Poth…

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Announcing the Winners and Runners Up in the 8th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics

Runner Up: Avital Fried – Statistical Evidence and the Criminal Verdict Asymmetry Honourable Mentions: Lise du Buisson – How should career choice ethics address ignorance-related harms? Undergraduate Category Winner: Lily Moore-Eissenberg – Legal Proof and Structural Injustice: Should jurors be…

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Brains Blog Roundtable: Values in Cognitive Science

Robyn Bluhm. Self‐fulfilling prophecies: The influence of gender stereotypes on functional neuroimaging research on emotion. Hypatia. doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2012.01311.x Shen-yi Liao and Vanessa Carbonell. Materialized Oppression in Medical Tools and Technologies. American Journal of Bioethics. doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2022.2044543 [embedded content] Website: morgankthompson.com Sam Liao…