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Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Germline Gene Editing and Savulescu's Procreative Beneficence Principle

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The possibility of using engineered enzymes to alter DNA means germline editing seems to be becoming a practical possibility with CRISPR...
Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Why I'm not a Stoic

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I admire fortitude, detachment and many other stoic virtues but believe full blown stoicism is damaging. Let us accept that for someone livi...
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Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Physician Assisted Suicide and the Slippery Slope Argument

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Permitting physician assisted suicide for those with terminal illnesses seems to be becoming acceptable in some countries. However many r...
Thursday, 1 March 2018

Two Types of Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement

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It is suggested by Anders Sandberg that the use of cognitive enhancing drugs under medical supervision might achieve more overall learnin...
Monday, 5 February 2018

Autonomy and Toleration

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  In this posting I want to examine the relationship between autonomy and toleration. This examination will highlight the tension between ...
Monday, 8 January 2018

Abating Anger

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A posting in  peasoup  by Antti Kauppinen suggests that rage might be a moral emotion. Rage is uncontrollable anger. This posting will, f...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Ectogenesis and the Abortion Debate

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Ectogenesis means the gestation of a foetus in an artificial environment outside the mother’s womb. Recent research with raising prematu...