Philosophical Reflections

Thursday, 31 July 2014

Two New Thought Experiments for the Ethics Classroom

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1. The Callous Terrorist : a dangerous terrorist is on the loose. He tried to bomb your government’s headquarters. Fortunately he fai...
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Thursday, 24 July 2014

Nothing Justifies the Mass Murder of Civilians

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Israel is at it again: killing unarmed and defenceless Palestinians en masse. No matter where they go, an Israeli rocket may always fin...
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Thursday, 17 July 2014

Sex and the Posthuman Condition

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Some of the readers of this blog may be interested to learn that I have now incorporated many of my previous blog posts in a book that Pa...
Sunday, 11 May 2014

Compulsory Scientific Service for the Fully Alive

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Like many other transhumanists, the American sociologist Steve Fuller who currently holds the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemol...
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Sunday, 4 May 2014

Notes on Dickens: David Copperfield Remembering His Mother’s Face

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David Copperfield (which I’m currently reading) is a fictional autobiography. The narrator, David, is a man who tries to reconstruct...
Sunday, 27 April 2014

Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Agar’s Identity and Moral Status Objections, and the Posthuman Condition

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It had been a long time since I last read Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, which tells the story of a man called Gregor Samsa, who one mo...
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