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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Monday, 4 March 2013

The Obese and Two Types of Shame

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Daniel Callahan calls for an “edgier” strategy in order to reduce obesity levels in the United States (1). One element of his suggeste...

Monday, 18 February 2013

Moral Character Enhancement and Moral Status

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Intuitively most people seem to believe that provided we could morally enhance people it would be a good thing to do so. After all this i...

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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 ...

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