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Category Archives: Reflections
Disability Rights
The last weekend school of the academic year was entitled Disability and the Right to Life: Would the Disabled be better off Dead? This got us off to a rather bad start – lots of people objected to the words … Continue reading
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Tagged disability rights, discussion, ethics, philosophy
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The Refugee Crisis
So what should we do about the thousands of human beings risking their lives to find a safe haven in Europe? Newspapers are full of harrowing pictures; crammed boats negotiating wild seas, elderly people trudging through the snow clutching their … Continue reading
Automated Robotic Weapons
In the House of Commons there are two red lines separating the two sides of the House. The lines are two sword-lengths apart. They are there to underline the fact that, in the House, disputes must be solved by discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, automated robotic weapons, ethics, ethics of war, philosophy
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Korsgaard’s third lecture: Legal Rights for Animals
Claim: Animals have the right to be treated only in ways that are compatible with their good. Q: Why do animals have this right? A: Because animals co-own the world with us. Like us they have the right to ‘be … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rights, argument, ethics, Kant, Korsgaard, philosophy
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Korsgaard Lecture Two: The Moral Standing of Animals
Kant is usually interpreted as arguing that the duties we take ourselves to have to animals are in fact duties we have to ourselves: if we mistreat animals we brutalise ourselves – we shouldn’t do this so we shouldn’t mistreat … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rights, argument, ends-in-themselves, ethics, Kant, Korsgaard, philosophy
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Animals, Human Beings and Other Persons – Professor Christine Korsgaard
I was privileged this week to go to a series of lectures by the renowned Kantian philosopher, Christine Korsgaard. This was hosted brilliantly by the Oxford Martin School. Professor Korsgaard gave three lectures. Today I will give a synopsis of … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rights, argument, ethics, Kant, Korsgaard, philosophy
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The OUDCE Philosophical Society Members’ Weekend
In 2002 it seemed to me that it was such a shame that we have so many intelligent, interesting members of the OUDCE Philosophical Society, but that they never got a formal opportunity to make their views public. So I … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, argument, discussion, philosophy, thinking, Thought
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Excerpt from my new book: Critical Reasoning: A Romp Through the Foothills of Logic
Truth and Falsehood Arguments are not true or false. Arguments are only good or bad. So the sentences that constitute an argument – the sentence that is asserted, and those sentences on the basis of which the first is asserted … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, bivalence, classical logic, critical reasoning, falsehood, philosophy, truth
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Opening Minds
What a long and torturous road it has been to this new website. A major learning experience. But very interesting. I found the same thing with Twitter and Facebook. Until I taught myself how to use them I was sniffy; … Continue reading
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Tagged closed mind, fear, learning, mature student, philosophy, social media, website
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