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Monday, 21 November 2016

Cryonic Preservation and Physician Assisted Suicide

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Recently a terminally ill teenager won the right to have her body preserved by cryonics in the hope that she might live again at some fu...
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Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Nussbaum, Transitional Anger and Unconditional Forgiveness

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Charles Griswold argues that forgiveness is a kind of transaction and as a result there are certain conditions attached to the tra...
Friday, 28 October 2016

Montgomery and the Information needed for Valid Informed Consent

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In the light of Montgomery case  the Royal College of Surgeons  has warned the NHS that failure to fully implement informed consent r...
Tuesday, 4 October 2016

A Duty to permit Assisted Suicide?

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In previous postings I have argued that we should accept that terminally ill people have a right to die and that we should respect that rig...
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...