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, 14 March 2017

Automation, Work and Education

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Our world is becoming increasingly automated and this increase appears to be having an effect on the number of jobs available. It is poss...

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...

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