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We are happy to announce a symposium on Public Health and Political Philosophy hosted by the Centre for Professional Ethics at Keele and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
The symposium will run from 10 – 5 on the 17th of June and is at Keele University. (Directions to Keele can be found here:
http://www.keele-conference.com/21/directions )
Public health raises [...]
Updated: 2011-05-27 08:41:03
After yesterday’s maundering on about Kant, here’s an example of how to keep philosophy in its rightful place. I like to think that the cat was thinking, “Holy tables? Really? I’m going to have to save you from yourself here, matey”.
(props to HappyToast for the link.)
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I like the idea of free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare, and if you want to call that a right, that’s fine with me, too. In the world of Tea Party-affliated Republican senator Rand Paul, that means I’m the sort of person who’d support turning up at a physician’s door with the police, and forcing that physician (and all [...]
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So… I’ve been writing a paper on Kant, the basic thrust of which is to assert the importance of respect for autonomy over and above respect for persons. (That is, I think that Kant thinks that we ought to respect persons because they’re autonomous; this is in contrast to the modern idea that we ought [...]
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