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, 17 July 2012

Guilt, Shame and Society

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According to Max Wind-Cowie shame should be liberated rather than legislated for. By this I take Wind-Cowie to mean that shame should pl...

Thursday, 28 June 2012

Autonomy and Love Enhancement

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In a paper Earp, Sandberg and Savulescu suggest individual couples should be free to use pharmacological interventions, provided these i...

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Monday, 4 June 2012

Me and My Values

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There is a tendency in philosophy to believe we define ourselves. That we define ourselves by our values or what we ‘care about’, see for ...

Monday, 21 May 2012

Damaging Self-Love, Pride and Shame

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In the New Scientist of 28/04/12 Laura Spinney examines whether too high self esteem damages us. Self-love is related to though not ident...

Saturday, 21 April 2012

Tiberius and Realistic Optimism

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In this posting I want to question whether optimism is really a virtue. The type of optimism I want to consider is realistic optimism a...

Friday, 23 March 2012

Deceit and Unintentional Fathers

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Elizabeth Brake (1) argues that unintentional fathers do not have an obligation to support any children they father. She bases here argum...

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Sport, Performance Enhancing Drugs and Character

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Julian Savulescu argues in a posting in Practical Ethics that “performance enhancement is not against the spirit of cycling; it is the ...

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