Job done, but, as Teddy points out: “It wasn’t all such plain sailing. Things weren’t as swimmingly great as we remember. Sometimes you just have got to dig in.” It’s possible I am just a bit giddy at the prospect …
‘Waiver or Understanding? A Dilemma for Autonomists about Informed Consent’
Gopal then went on to sketch an argument that the use of the waiver is itself justified in these terms as an exercise of autonomy, in that the subject themself is shaping through their own choice (itself perhaps informed in …
Video Series: Factory Farms are Breeding Grounds for Pandemics
[embedded content] In this Thinking Out Loud interview with Dr Katrien Devolder (Philosophy, Oxford), Professor Aaron S. Gross (Theology and Religious Studies, San Diego) explains why factory farms are breeding grounds for pandemics, and what we, as individuals, can do …
Guest Post: Frances Kamm- Harms, Wrongs, and Meaning in a Pandemic
The seriousness of a wrong can be a function of the harm that is done; that is why though one can wrong someone by kicking them as well as by killing them, it is a more serious wrong to kill …
The Guardian view on the god of science: a divine but rational disagreement | Editorial
Hume, who founded classical economics, identified important problems and posed them in interesting forms. However, he made shameful judgments; he held racist views. Individuals are complex. So is history. The Enlightenment in its mainstream form, personified by Hume, was wrong …
Pfizer Jab Approved for Children, but First Other People need to be Vaccinated
As well as direct benefit, vaccines have an important indirect benefit: they reduce the spread of the virus and stop other people from being infected. If you can help others in a significant way, at little personal cost, risk or …
Second CFP: Philosophy of Neuroscience at the Gulf IV!!
Please direct all queries to John Bickle at the email address given above, or to Brian Keeley at brian_keeley@pitzer.edu Note on current plans for workshop format: At present our plans are to hold as much of the workshop live in …
Phobias, Paternalism and the Prevention of Home Birth
Most people with phobias will still retain capacity to make decisions. Decisions that have nothing to do with their phobia will obviously be unaffected. But many people with a phobia can still make decisions affected by their phobia. For example, …
Stoicism Isn’t and Never Was (Merely) a Rich White Man’s Philosophy
Moreover, it is this understanding of Stoicism that led us to tell the stories of the British spy Katherine Gun and the civil rights defender Claudette Colvin. For us, they were Stoic in everything but name. They chose to stand …
Apara Ekadashi – 06 June, 2021
The following narration of Apara Ekadashi is found in the Brahmanda Purana. King Yudhisthira inquired from Lord Krishna about this most auspicious of Ekadashis. Yudhishthira Maharaj said, “O Janardana, what is the name of the Ekadashi that occurs during the …