Consider, first, that Clarkson might mean that you have the right to choose what kind of food is served at public events; or that you have the right to be presented with more than one food option at such events, …
Just War, Economics, and Corporate Boycotting: A Review of Dr. Ted Lechterman’s 2022 St. Cross Special Ethics Seminar
The economic critique of corporate boycotts borrows from Milton Friedman’s seminal New York Times article in September, 1970, in which Friedman criticized corporate philanthropy as a failure of its agency responsibility to shareholders. Friedman argued that corporate philanthropy was a …
Cognitive Science of Philosophy Symposium: Community Science
* * * * * * * * * * * * Fortunately, it is possible and feasible to carry out community science projects that do measure educational outcomes. In our case, we administered a pre- and post-test composed of …
Deep South Philosophy of Neuroscience Workgroup: APA event and Call for Abstracts
View the CFA here! We hope you’ll join the DSPNW for these great events! The DSPNW is hosting an exciting event this week at the Pacific APA in Vancouver, “Philosophy and Neuroscience Graduate Student Showcase I”! Hi All, Also, the …
Slaps VS Jokes at the Oscars
That is, we can always debate whether certain words justifiably caused someone hurt, regardless of the offender’s intentions. This is because we think people have more control over what words they find hurtful in contrast to how their bodies react …
Robert Audi on Moral Creditworthiness and Moral Obligation
I am grateful to Professor Audi for comments on an earlier draft. On Tuesday 8 March, Professor Robert Audi, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, gave a Public Lecture for the Oxford Uehiro Centre …
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: When Money Can’t Buy Happiness: Does Our Duty to Assist the Needy Require Us to Befriend the Lonely?
These conditions are clarified and justified with an example. Let us consider the specific duty to call an ambulance in three scenarios: [2] Very wealthy people might potentially feel that paying actors would be worth it. While this is an …
Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why Don’t We Just Let The Wise Rule?!
7 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/07/the-case-against-democracy (Accessed:22/01/2022); https:// www.ipsos.com/en-uk/perceptions-are-not-reality (Accessed: 22/01/2022) First, ‘The Value of Wisdom’. Generally, it is reasonable to expect that wisdom is positively correlated with a tendency to produce better outcomes. For example, the legally wise lawyer will tend to produce …
The End Of The Egg?
written by Neil Levy The unavailability of free range eggs should make you rethink your egg buying, if you’re one of the people who prefer them to barn laid. You’re eating eggs from chickens that can be expected to have …
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 …