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, 16 August 2016

Sport, Motivational Enhancement and Authenticity

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  Heather Dyke writing in the conversation examines why doping in sport is wrong. In a previous posting I have argued that doping in spor...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Outsourcing Ethical Decision Making and Authenticity

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In a previous posting I questioned whether algorithmic assisted moral decision making is possible. Let us assume for the sake of argume...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Cosmetic Surgery, Enhancement and the Aims of Medicine

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    Jessica Laimann wonders whether we should prohibit breast implants (1). She proceeds to argue that we shouldn’t prohibit breast impla...
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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...
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