Undergraduate Finalist paper in the 2025 National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics. By Rahul Lakhanpaul, University of Edinburgh. The post How Does Social Media Pose a Threat to Autonomy? first appeared on Practical Ethics ..read more

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 Ethics ..read more

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 2000 words on any topic relevant to practical ethics. The 2025 Essay… Read More »National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics The post National Uehiro Oxford Essay Prize in Practical Ethics first appeared on Practical Ethics ..read more

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 introduction of a ban on cousin marriages that came into effect in Norway in 2023… Read More »Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective The post Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective first appeared on Practical Ethics ..read more

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 protections apply to patients and staff accessing the clinic. The purpose is to prevent anyone from stopping women… Read More »Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones The post Legislating for Influence: The Case of Abortion Safe Zones first appeared on Practical Ethics ..read more

By S. Tom de Kok Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare promises to revolutionize diagnostics, treatments, and efficiency, but it is not infallible. What happens when these promises are accompanied by harms that are difficult to define, attribute, or address? The term AI-trogenic harm—a novel term for the unintentional harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI) in… Read More »Guest post: Iatrogenic to AI-trogenic Harm: Nonmaleficence in AI healthcare The post Guest post: Iatrogenic to AI-trogenic Harm: Nonmaleficence in AI healthcare first appeared on Practical Ethics ..read more

I believe that the debate about remote work reveals fundamental misconceptions about what laziness really means. When we label someone as lazy—a criticism that can have severe consequences for an individual’s career and wellbeing—we should at least be clear about what we mean. The post Stop asking if remote workers are lazy – Focus on Directing Effort Effectively first appeared on Practical Ethics ..read more

Written by Dr Dennis Masaka, Great Zimbabwe University and AfOx Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-dennis-masaka In my proposed work as an AfOx Fellow at Oxford, I seek to initiate a conversation around the way land redistribution has so far taken place in Zimbabwe. I will use the frameworks of collective responsibility and collective… Read More »Collective Responsibility and collective meeting of needs, and the question of Land redistribution in Zimbabwe The post Collective Responsibility and collective meeting of needs, and the question of Land r ..read more

Dominic Wilkinson, University of Oxford Following the second reading (and parliamentary support) of Labour MP Kim Leadbetter’s terminally ill adults (end of life) bill on November 29, much of the public debate in England and Wales will now shift to questions around safeguards. If the safeguards aren’t considered adequate, the bill is unlikely to pass… Read More »Assisted dying: what we might learn from experience of other controversial decisions in medicine The post Assisted dying: what we might learn from experience of other controversial decisions in medicine first appeared on ..read more

by Tolulope Osayomi and Mofeyisara Omobowale / first published 25th November on Torch News The roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities? “, organized by Medical Humanities Hub at TORCH and the Uehiro Oxford Institute, featured four panelists with diverse disciplinary approaches to public health crises.  Two of the panelists were Oxford-based scholars in… Read More »Cross-post: Roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanities?” The post Cross-post: Roundtable discussion “From Covid-19 to MPox: Lessons from The Humanit ..read more