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Bridging the Gaps: How Language Models Can Connect Ethics, Science, and Policy
Published: March 20, 2025 16:15
What this post explores: At its best, practical ethics addresses normative questions with philosophical rigor while remaining grounded in empirical evidence and offering meaningful input for policy. However, the field frequently faces challenges in…
Bring Back Shame: Does the Ethical Value of Shame Justify Shaming?
Published: March 20, 2025 13:29
Undergraduate Highly Commended paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Nicole Chinenyenwa Oboko. I  have always been told that if a person has nothing nice to say, they should say nothing at all. For most of my life,…
The Duty to Have Courage: Developing the Theory of Epistemic Injustice
Published: March 18, 2025 16:10
Undergraduate Highly Commended paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Artur Littner, University of Lancaster. The post The Duty to Have Courage: Developing the Theory of Epistemic Injustice first appeared on Practical…
Silencing Queer Signals: How Cultural Misuse Prevents the Expression of Queerness
Published: March 18, 2025 10:55
Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Elizabeth McCabe, University of Oxford. The post Silencing Queer Signals: How Cultural Misuse Prevents the Expression of Queerness first appeared on…
The doctor will speak as you prefer? How AI could personalize medical communication
Published: March 17, 2025 12:39
(This blog post was originally published in the JME Forum) By Hazem Zohny, Jemima Winfried Allen, Dominic Wilkinson, and Julian Savulescu. When you go to the doctor, there’s little telling what kind of communicator you’ll get. Some doctors are on the…
How Does Social Media Pose a Threat to Autonomy?
https://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/how-does-social-media-pose-a-threat-to-autonomy/
Published: March 14, 2025 15:57
Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Rahul Lakhanpaul, University of Edinburgh. In the last few decades, social media technologies have experienced astronomical successes with many billions of…
Promises and Consent: The Moral Permissibility of Accepting a Promise to Perform an Act That Requires Contemporaneous Consent
Published: March 13, 2025 16:52
Graduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. The post Promises and Consent: The Moral Permissibility of Accepting a Promise to Perform an Act That Requires Contemporaneous Consent first appeared on Practical…
National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics
Published: March 13, 2025 16:41
The National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics is an annual competition held in the spring. It is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in UK universities and students are invited to enter by submitting an essay of up to…
Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective
Published: March 5, 2025 09:26
Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford A bill that proposes to ban first-cousin marriage in the UK will receive its second reading in the House of Commons on March 7. The bill, proposed by Conservative former minister Richard Holden, follows the…
Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones
Published: February 13, 2025 16:09
by Thomas Mitchell In September last year, the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Act 2024 came into effect. This Act establishes safe zones of 200 metres in all directions around clinics offering abortion services, within which special…