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, 27 April 2016

Diversity and Editing Our Children’s Genes

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I have recently been reading ‘Should you edit your children’s gene?’ by Erika Check Hayden in nature . Hayden is not concerned with edit...

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...

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