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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Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Factitious Virtue

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In this posting I want to consider Mark Alfano’s idea of factitous virtue, I will only consider factitious moral virtue (1). In recent ye...

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Monday, 7 March 2016

Algorithmic Assisted Moral Decision Making

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Albert Barqué-Duran wonders whether humanity wants computers making moral decisions? In the face of the coronavirus outbreak when we ...

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...

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