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Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Happiness and Consumerism

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It is commonly asserted that people aren’t as happy as they used to be years ago due to the consumerist culture we live in. Usually ver...
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 ...