National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics: Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Sparrow, Robert. “Robots and respect: Assessing the case against autonomous weapon systems.” Ethics & international affairs 30, no. 1 (2016): 93-116. (2) Out of basic respect for enemy combatants and non-combatants alike, the legitimate use of any weapon requires that…

Entangled Brains

The property of complexity is a reminder that systems behave in ways that are substantially more varied and nuanced than at first entertained. Small changes of input or perturbations to their state can lead to qualitatively different behaviors and outcomes….

Announcement: Finalists of the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation

Undergraduate: Tanae Rao (Oxford): Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Leah O’Grady (Oxford): What is wrong with stating slurs? Thomas Long (University of Manchester): The Ambiguous Ethicality of Applause: Ethnography’s Uncomfortable Challenge to…

Ever tried to stop a friend marrying someone, or moving far away? You could have made an ethical faux pas | Farbod Akhlaghi

What I do believe is that we have a right to learn for ourselves who we will become, and what we will be like, by making transformative choices. I call this “revelatory autonomy”. I argue for this right in exploring…

Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization and doctors’ conscientious commitment to provide abortion

Francesca Minerva, University of Milan  Alberto Giubilini, University of Oxford  Most of the time, the type of health care we are legally entitled to coincides with what is considered good medical and medical ethics standards by relevant professional bodies. At the moment,…