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, 23 October 2012

Biological and Adopted Children

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In a posting on practical ethics Julian Savulescu relates the story of Brad and Melissa’s attempts to have a baby using IVF with PGD. The...

Friday, 5 October 2012

Two Types of Respect; Too Much Respect?

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In these days of political correctness, the idea of respect is important. The idea of respect is also often unclear. In this posting I w...

Friday, 21 September 2012

Happiness and Satisfaction

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In my previous posting I considered happiness in the light of Feldman and Haybron’s concepts. Both concepts differ, but both accept that s...

Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Feldman, Haybron and Happy Dispositions

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Normally most people would understand what I meant if I said someone had a happy disposition. In this posting I want to explore the conne...

Friday, 3 August 2012

Olympic Ideals and Winning

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The Olympic Games are upon us and it is often claimed what really matters in the Olympics and sport in general is simply participating rat...

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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