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, 24 January 2011

What’s Wrong with Addiction to Video Games

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In a posting on addiction Bennett Foddy points out whilst we universally regard addiction to tobacco as bad we are more ambivalent with rega...

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Ecological Refugees

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Cara Nine argues in that the Lockean proviso means a people who have their homeland destroyed, or made uninhabitable by ecological disaste...

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Hobbs and Heroes

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At the BBC radio 3’s free thinking festival at The Sage in Gateshead Angie Hobbs posed the question do we need heroes? In her discussion H...

Sunday, 31 October 2010

The Roots of Cruelty

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Paul Bloom writing in the New Scientist of 16/10/10 states the following “It is no surprise that modern humans can be selfish and cruel, but...

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

The Obese, Muggers and NICE

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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's citizens' council thinks it might be right to offer grossly unhealthy pe...

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Valid Consent, Good Consent and Asymmetric Competence

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In this posting I want to consider the topic of informed consent. Eric Chwang is interested in the difference between the standard need...

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

The Decriminalisation of Drugs

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Ian Gilmore, former president of the Royal College of Physicians, and one of the UK's leading doctors has argued that the government sho...

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