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, 30 March 2009

Terrorism, Love and Self Delusion

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Recently Irish republican dissidents have murdered two British soldiers and a policeman. It is important to combat these crimes; this of co...

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

Assisted Suicide, Slippery Slopes and Empathic Caring

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This posting is in part a response to a program on BBC 1 on Sunday 25 January 2009. This program is about the death of Dr Anne Turner who ...

Monday, 12 January 2009

Evil and Empathy

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In my last posting I associated evil with moral disability rather than moral insanity as proposed by Grayling in the New Scientist of 17/...

Thursday, 30 October 2008

Confiscating Live Body Parts

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This posting is based on Fabre C, 2006, Whose Body is it Anyway?, Oxford University Press. In chapter five Fabre argues the following. Justi...

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...

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