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The Technological Mediation of Morality: Explained

25. February 2021 Philosophy News News

3D Ultrasound - Does this change our moral perception of the unborn child?People have been talking about the death of privacy for at least three decades. The rise of the internet, mass surveillance an [More]

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Dear Abby, Dear Prudence, Ask Polly - we've reached Peak Advice. But are readers getting anything from all the edification?

25. February 2021 Philosophy News News

Dear Abby, Dear Prudence, Ask Polly - we've reached Peak Advice. But are readers getting anything from all the [More]

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Fairness & Transgender Athletes II: Category Changing

24. February 2021 Philosophy News News

In my previous essay I set the stage for discussing the concern about people switching competition categories to gain something. It is to this matter that that I now turn. The Sickle Cell 5K in Tallah [More]

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Borges, Le Guin, Daniel Keyes — the best philosophical fiction prickles your conscience and knocks your moral sense askew

24. February 2021 Philosophy News News

Borges, Le Guin, Daniel Keyes — the best philosophical fiction prickles your conscience and knocks your moral sense [More]

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Pankaj Mishra styles himself an outsider against an irredeemable establishment. But increasingly he finds himself in the mainstream

23. February 2021 Philosophy News News

Pankaj Mishra styles himself an outsider against an irredeemable establishment. But increasingly he finds himself in the [More]

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Pankaj Mishra styles himself an outsider lashing an irredeemable establishment. But increasingly he finds himself in the mainstream

23. February 2021 Philosophy News News

Pankaj Mishra styles himself an outsider lashing an irredeemable establishment. But increasingly he finds himself in the mainstream [More]

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A Romantic-era notion holds that science kills wonder. The work of Alan Lightman only multiplies it

23. February 2021 Philosophy News News

A Romantic-era notion holds that science kills wonder. The work of Alan Lightman only multiplies [More]

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Fairness & Transgender Athletes I: Marking the Course

22. February 2021 Philosophy News News

Upon taking office, Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring that schools receiving federal funding allow people who self-identify as females onto female sport’s teams. Pushback against it has ranged from thoughtful considerations of fairness to misogyny masquerading as morality. In addition to being complicated in its own right, the fairness of self-identified females being [More]

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Unearthing Caligula's pleasure garden. Was he assassinated because he was a monster, or was he made into a monster because he was assassinated?

22. February 2021 Philosophy News News

Unearthing Caligula's pleasure garden. Was he assassinated because he was a monster, or was he made into a monster because he was [More]

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John Rawls: an ideal theorist for nonideal times?

21. February 2021 Philosophy News News

John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" was published fifty years ago. What is the connection between Rawls’s abstract theorizing about justice and work aiming to address real-world injustices? The post John Rawls: an ideal theorist for nonideal times? appeared first on OUPblog. Related StoriesTips for adapting the elementary music curriculum to online teachingFive themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptationsWhich literary heroine are you? [More]

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