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The UK Should Share The Vaccine With The Other Countries – But Only After All The Vulnerable Have Been Vaccinated

Contributor February 3, 2021

Three vaccines are produced by US pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax), although the Pfizer vaccine has been developed in partnership with the German biotechnology company BioNTech, and the Novavax one is being made in the UK. One vaccine is …

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Reminder: Two Publishing Venues in the Philosophy of Neuroscience

Contributor February 3, 2021

I periodically remind people of a couple of venues for work in the philosophy of neuroscience:The Synthese Topical Collection on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy. The deadline is purely nominal; submissions are processed as they come in and published online shortly …

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Reminder: 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics – Entries Due By Tuesday 9th February

Contributor February 3, 2021

The winner of each category will be awarded a prize of £300. The runner up will win £100. Stage 1: The Essay Detailed instructions The winner from each category will receive £300, and the runner up £100. Revised versions of …

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Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposium: Adversarial Collaboration

Contributor February 2, 2021

In a good adversarial collaboration, if you win you win. But if you lose, you also win. You’ve shown something new and (at least to you) surprising.  Plus, you get to parade your virtuous susceptibility to empirical evidence by uttering those …

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John Bickle with livestream “Tinkering in the lab” on Feb 5

Contributor February 1, 2021

Related: How to connect to Neural Mechanism Webinars Tinkering in the Lab 5 February 202115-17 Greenwhich Mean Time(Convert to your local time here) Abstract. The “science-in-practice” movement has brought wider philosophical attention to aspects of day-to-day science less closely tied …

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Cognitive Control: Motivating what we do

Contributor January 29, 2021

As I detail in the book, there are several arguments as to why this account is dissatisfying. For example, one simple observation is that unlike a muscle, there is no evidence that we ever actually fully deplete our mental resources. …

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What can moral philosophy tell us about the Covid ‘vaccine nationalism’ row? | Alexis Papazoglou

Contributor January 29, 2021

Let’s consider the extreme cases. If, say, the UK had vaccinated exactly the same percentage of people as the EU, there wouldn’t be any moral demand for the UK to share its vaccines. But if the UK had managed to …

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The ethics of age-selective restrictions for COVID-19 control

Contributor January 29, 2021

Savulescu and Cameron previously proposed that selective liberty restrictions are more likely to be justified when those who have their liberty restricted are those who benefit most from the measures. In the case of COVID-19, with the marked difference in …

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Who You Really Are And Why It Matters

Contributor January 28, 2021

‘An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted’, wrote Arthur Miller. The illusion of the adequacy of materialism as an explanation for the nature of the world is exhausted, and a new era of real …

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Cognitive Control: Inhibitory control

Contributor January 28, 2021

This task is appealing as a test of an inhibitory process. It requires initiation of a response on every trial, and so if it is successfully countermanded, this suggests that it has been suppressed (as opposed to never initiating the …

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