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, 22 February 2017

Sex with Robots

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In the near future it seems probable that some people will have sex with robots, see the rise of the love droids . In this posting I will d...

Monday, 23 January 2017

Robots and Persons

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In an interesting post John Danaher asks if someone can be friends with a robot, see philosophicaldisquisitions . He argues virtue...

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...

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