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, 29 January 2013

Friendship, Love and Happiness

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Positive psychologists such as Haidt and Seligman stress the importance of association and friendship in making us happy. Lonely people ar...

Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Does our Concept of Happiness change as we Age?

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It is generally accepted that happiness is important in our lives. However, in philosophy there is a great deal of disagreement about exa...

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Self Respect and Love

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Kristjan Kristjansson argues too much attention is paid to promoting an individual’s self esteem and not enough to promoting his self res...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Extended Consent

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We usually consent to some action immediately prior to that action. Sometimes our past consent may be thought to extend into the future....

Friday, 9 November 2012

Prisoners and the Right to Vote

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In the UK prisoners lose the right to vote whilst serving their sentence. In the US , except in Maine and Vermont , prisoners also lose ...

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...

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