Paternalism is the practice of making judgements for other people about what is best for them. And the strongest form of paternalism (“hard paternalism”) fails to respect the autonomy of competent adults, and breaches their right to make decisions about…
Meanwhile, Professor Savulescu adds, ‘Patients have a right to be unconscious if they are dying. This survey shows that the general public want to have greater choice at the end of life.’ENDS 1. The survey is based on two anonymous…
The problem is that getting out of the second kind of shame can make you feel as though you’re erasing the first. In answering “am I terrible?” you learn that your actions have explanations, and you get to a place…
[embedded content] In this new Thinking Out Loud interview, Katrien Devolder talks to philosopher Dr Josh Milburn (Sheffield) about whether we should (and can) feed our cat or dog a vegan diet. There are plenty of good reasons to avoid…
Below, you can find the target article, commentaries, and Nanay’s response. Commentaries Having indicated a role for motor imagery in the initiation of actions in general, Nanay turns to discuss the relevance of motor imagery for understanding akratic action (§4)–e.g.,…
Prioritisation Principle: in cases of conflict, the Anti-Exploitation criterion takes precedence over the GDL criterion with respect to gender-justice enhancement. Secondly, a UBI would reduce gendered exploitation in the market for intimate labour, defined as “work that is done primarily…
There is no good reason to draw a line at 14 days – the neural structures at that point are primitive and the potential for twinning is morally irrelevant (these were the two rationalisations offered by Mary Warnock). It was…
Suppose that it was possible to obtain a measure of academic performance perfectly controlled for any differences in educational opportunities beyond the applicant’s control. In this case, it seems that test scores would track some combination of hard work, innate…
Accordingly, it is important to place the reported thrombotic events into context, and to think about how many thrombotic events we might normally expect in a population of a comparable size to the population that has received the Astra Zeneca…
19 March 202115-17 Greenwhich Mean Time(Convert to your local time here) There Are No Object Files Abstract. Object files are representations that sustain reference to external objects and keep track of the properties of these objects. Object files are posited…
So how concerned should we be about these cases? Sabrina Bracher/Shutterstock To use a trivial example, if there are 100 seats in a cinema and you jump a queue of 100, someone who has waited will not get a seat….
[6] Sartorio 2004: 331 Kaiserman, A., forthcoming—a, “Against Accomplice Liability”, forthcoming in Gardner, J., Green, L., and Leiter, B. (eds.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 4, Oxford OUP Causal Dependence (Counterfactual Dependence): e depends causally on c iff…
A man was found to have Huntingdon’s disease (HD). That meant that his children might be affected. He refused to allow his clinicians to notify his daughter (who was pregnant) of the possibility that she might have HD, or be…
Abstract: Recent advances in whole-brain modelling have helped stratify the heterogeneity of anhedonia across neuropsychiatric disorders, and the key underlying components of the pleasure network. I will show how modelling of neuroimaging data from diverse hedonic routes such as psychedelics,…
