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Cross Post: Why Government Budgets are Exercises in Distributing Life and Death as Much as Fiscal Calculations

Contributor March 15, 2023

It starts to become obvious how value judgments infuse and implicitly guide these fiscal decisions that, unwittingly or not, involve weighing up certain lives against others, present lives against future ones, and proxies for wellbeing (such as job creation) against …

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Call for Abstracts: First Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

Contributor March 14, 2023

What is the mind, and how does it work? Centuries of philosophical and scientific investigation have shown that these questions are too big to be tackled once and for all with a single explanatory endeavor. The magnitude of this pursuit …

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How Confucian Harmony Can Help Us Deal with Echo Chambers

Contributor March 14, 2023

The thing to avoid in making soup, ruling a country, or trying to reconcile different things that are in tension is to have too much ‘echoing’ or ‘sameness’. For example, having too much of the same opinion in government or …

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Eth­i­cal Bi­o­log­i­cal Nat­u­ral­ism and the Case Against Moral Sta­tus for AIs

Contributor March 10, 2023

In­tro­duc­tion Note that bi­o­log­i­cal nat­u­ral­ism does not posit that con­scious­ness can only be re­alized in bi­o­log­i­cal sys­tems. In­deed, ar­ti­fi­cial hearts are not made of or­gan­ic tis­sue, and air­planes do not have feath­ers, or for that mat­ter even flap their wings. …

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Healthcare Allocation for Limited Budgets

Contributor March 10, 2023

By Joshua Parker and Ben Davies Some examples may help. As each threshold is, to a certain degree, socially constructed the thresholds can be flexible, shifting in response to resources, demands, changes in social attitudes, and so on. Take the …

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Honesty and Public Health Communication: Part 2

Contributor March 8, 2023

In a previous post, I discussed some of the requirements for public health institutions to count as ‘honest’. I now want to follow that up to discuss some of the ways in which public health communication seems to fall short …

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French philosopher urges people to rebel – by making friends

Contributor March 6, 2023

He said if friendship was better prioritised by society and governments, it would also end what he called the “horror” and “tyranny” of early morning culture. “I can’t get up early because I’ve been out with friends until 3am” would …

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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: The Ambiguous Ethicality of Applause: Ethnography’s Uncomfortable Challenge to the Ethical Subject

Contributor March 6, 2023

Wickham-Crowley, K. M. 2000. “Going Native”: Anthropological Lawman. Arthuriana, 10(2), pp.5–26.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/27869541 As Lambek tells us, ethics often exists “in the movement or tension between the ostensible (manifest, explicit, conspicuous, declared, avowed, certain, normative, necessary) and the tacit (latent, implicit, …

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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Contributor March 3, 2023

Sparrow, Robert. “Robots and respect: Assessing the case against autonomous weapon systems.” Ethics & international affairs 30, no. 1 (2016): 93-116. (2) Out of basic respect for enemy combatants and non-combatants alike, the legitimate use of any weapon requires that …

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National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: What is Wrong With Stating Slurs?

Contributor March 2, 2023

Written by Leah O’Grady, University of Oxford The intuitive wrongness of stating the e-word arises from Speaker C’s ignorance of its status as a slur which, although indirectly, attaches similar properties to marginalised communities to stating a known slur . …

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