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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Monday, 29 September 2008

Parenting and Excessive Guidance

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Phillip Larkin had a bleak view of parents. ‘They fuck you up your mum and dad and give you all the faults they had’ Dov Fox also ...

Monday, 1 September 2008

The Pharmacological Induction of Emotions

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This posting is based on a paper by David Wasserman and Mathew Liao (1). In this paper they question whether the pharmacological inductio...

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Living Wills

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In this posting I want to explore a familiar theme of this blog respect for autonomy. In previous postings I have stressed the importance of...

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

GM CROPS, AUTONOMY AND SATISFICING

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In this posting examine the issue of GM crops. In it I will not examine the issues directly concerned with growing of these crops. Instead I...

Thursday, 19 June 2008

Autonomy and Caring Revisited

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In this posting I want to examine whether an ethics based on empathic caring is possible and the relationship between empathic caring and...

Thursday, 5 June 2008

Moral Insanity

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In this posting I want to examine the moral implications raised by the behaviour of the Austrian man Josef Fritzl who imprisoned and sexuall...

Friday, 16 May 2008

Justified Anger and Empathy

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This posting is concerned with justified anger. It is partly a response to Chapter 5 of Nancy Sherman’s “Stoic Warriors” (1). It is all ...

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