Prof Dominic Wilkinson & Dr Jonathan Pugh “That is a tragic and distressing situation that we must do everything possible to avoid repeating. First, we should ensure that all those who are high risk have access to vaccination. There are…
In this article we argue that, In any pandemic response, the measures undertaken by authorities must effective in the sense of actually addressing the viral threats. A strategy that didn’t slow the rate of viral spread, for instance, wouldn’t work…
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…
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…
How do we know we’re not living in a simulation like The Matrix? Jack Freedom, BristolThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsPost your…
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
It’s no smooth-purring comedy machine. Sometimes Newman’s arcane historical act-outs frustrate, by interrupting the flow of his argument. Occasionally, the ideas they depict are funnier in concept than execution. But there are laughs and killer punchlines, such as the priceless…
