Wooler.Scottus

This blog is concerned with most topics in applied philosophy. In particular it is concerned with autonomy, love and other emotions. comments are most welcome

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Thursday, 9 January 2014

Pharmacological Moral Enhancement

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Joao Fabiano asks us to imagine that in the future humanity makes a major breakthrough, see Practical Ethics . He imagines that society...

Monday, 18 February 2013

Moral Character Enhancement and Moral Status

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Intuitively most people seem to believe that provided we could morally enhance people it would be a good thing to do so. After all this i...

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Saturday, 1 October 2011

Decreasing Violence

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Steven Pinker argues in ( The Better Angels of our Nature , 2011, Viking) that in the more advanced countries of the world our propensity f...

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Aliens and Stephen Hawking

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Stephen Hawking recently stated on the Discovery channel that alien life forms probably exists somewhere in the Universe and that we shoul...

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Patient Advocacy and Caring

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In this posting I want to explore the idea of caring further in a nursing context. It is now common to talk of nurses of not just caring for...

Friday, 4 September 2009

Why love is not just a disposition to feel empathy

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In my last two postings I have argued the love of inanimate objects may not be same as the love of persons and that loving someone might ...

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