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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Thursday, 4 October 2018

Moral Distress and Autonomy

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In Ian McEwan’s book 'The Children’s Act' we have a clear example of moral distress. A judge has to make a decision which is in a ...

Monday, 3 September 2018

Honour in a Cosmopolitan Society

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In the western world the idea of honour seems to be becoming less important. Politicians make promises and feel no shame when they break ...

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Grief

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A robot cannot grieve. Stoics want to limit our dispositions to grieve. In this posting I want to examine grief. This examination was pr...

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...

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