I post regularly on the Uehiro Centre’s Practical Ethics blog. The blog provides ethical analysis of topics in the news and other contemporary issues. Some of my posts are listed below:
Doing More Harm Than Good? Should the Police Always Investigate Non-recent Child Sexual Abuse Cases?
Does late parenthood deprive children of grandparental love?
Virtually reality? The value of virtual activities and remote interaction
Anorexia Nervosa and Deep Brain Stimulation: Philosophical Analysis of Potential Mechanisms
Speculating about technology in ethics
Science and Ethics: Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of anorexia
Should remorseful offenders be punished less harshly?
Where there’s a will there’s a way: Enhancing motivation
How polite must I be to cold callers?
‘He was looking at me funny’: The (limited) rationality of the hostile attribution bias
Mindfulness meditation and implicit bias
Harsher sentences for murder of a police officer: what are the arguments?
When warning is not informing: Alcohol labels will not be as straightforward as cigarette labels
Historical crimes, historical sentences?
Girls should do competitive sports to ‘build confidence and resilience’. Really?
On the ‘right to be forgotten’
Computer vision and emotional privacy
Are the reasons why people take illegal drugs relevant to sentencing decisions?
Marathon mice, enhancement and the will to work out
Happiness, meaning and well-being
The new offence of ‘wilful neglect’ – what’s new?
Thorpe Park’s ‘Asylum’ maze is unrealistic. Does this make it more or less inappropriate?
Is compassion a necessary component of healthcare?
Dangerous dogs and proportionate sentencing
‘Losses disguised as wins’: Slot machines and deception
Skin switching, implicit racial bias and moral enhancement
Strict-ish liability? An experiment in the law as algorithm
A reply to ‘Facebook: You are your ‘Likes”
Amnesia and remorse: how much should we expect?
Mind-controlled limbs and redefining the self
Armstrong the Good Giraffe and the Moral Value of Effort
Hannah Maslen 