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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Friday, 25 February 2011

David Cameron and Social Integration

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In my last posting I suggested there is no such thing as a fully integrated society. I further suggested we would be better employed in cons...

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Soldiers and Beta Blockers

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A large number of soldiers returning from active service in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and ...

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...

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