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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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

The virtue of forgiveness

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Ernesto Garcia argues we have a moral duty to forgive but that this duty need not necessarily involve giving up resentment (1). In this p...

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...

Sunday, 18 September 2011

Can Consent be Presumed?

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Proponents of an opt out scheme of organ donation seem to assume that in such a scheme, provided someone has not opted out, his consent for ...

Thursday, 25 August 2011

Riots and the Unbearable Lightness of Simply Being

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Recently in the UK large quantities of people went onto the streets to loot, attack the police and create general mayhem. I’m not sure...

Thursday, 11 August 2011

Zero Degrees of Empathy and Evil

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In this posting I want to set out some thoughts about evil and empathy rather than pursuing a specific argument. My starting point is Simon ...

Monday, 27 June 2011

Knobe, Erler and our ‘True Self’

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In this posting I want to consider the comments by Alexandre Erler in Practical Ethics on an article by Joshua Knobe in the New York Times c...

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Sexually Coercive Offers

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James Rocha asks what is wrong with the following coercive offer. “Hal is Vera’s supervisor at food services company which is expanding...

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