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Monday, 22 February 2016

Traditional and Nussbaum's Transitional Anger

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The world is an angry place and it seems this anger is increasing, see for instance why are Americans so angry? Anger is a basic emotion...
Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Terminally ill patients and the right to try new untested drugs

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In the United States nearly half of the states have passed a “right to try” law, which attempt to give terminally ill patients access to ...
Friday, 8 January 2016

Driverless Cars and Applied Philosophy

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Google has developed an autonomous car and major car makers such as Ford and VW are showing an interest in doing the same. It is re...
Sunday, 29 November 2015

Terrorism, Love and Delusion

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In this posting I want to examine terrorism. As a philosopher rather than a psychologist I won’t examine the means by which potential te...
Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Autonomy and Beneficence Revisited

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I have previously argued that if someone asks me to buy him cigarettes and I was not going to be significantly inconvenienced that I have...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Emerging AI and Existential Threats

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AI is much in the news recently. Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt believes AI is starting to make real progress whilst others such as Nick Bo...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Do Same Sex couples have a greater right to Fertility Treatment?

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Emily McTernan “argues that states have greater reason to provide fertility treatment for same sex couples than for heterosexual couples”...