Environmental Bioethics and the Problem of Interdependence
I find myself bothered by the relationship between bioethics and public health ethics. Is it that the former focuses on individuals and the latter...
The Moral Life of Organs in an Age of Technological Innovation
Introduction
In medicine, technology can refer to anything from antibiotics like penicillin used to treat everyday infections and antivirals that suppress HIV, to dialysis circuits...
What is Clinical Medicine? What Should it Be?
Much attention has recently been given to discussing the effects, potential and actual, of artificial intelligence on clinical medicine. Many, like Sparrow & Hatherley,...
Synthetic Disenchantment
We are only seeking man.
We have no need of other worlds.
We need mirrors.
–Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Machines, artificial intelligences (AI), can now produce creative works such...
From Paternalism to Suicide Prevention: No Simple Path
This entry is based on my “Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention,” forthcoming in M. Cholbi and P. Stellino, eds., Oxford Handbook of...
Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing May Be All About Perspective
Make an “O” shape with your thumb and forefinger and contemplate it. It represents both a number and a concept: zero, nothing. In between...
Criminalizing Mental Illness: Cops as Clinicians and Incarceration as Health Care in the United...
Consider the case of Harvey. Harvey experiences paranoid delusions, and one evening, he can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching him from his...
Longtermism and its Limits
Is humanity on its way out? It’s hard to say for sure, but the deck is certainly stacked against us. We are currently facing...
Are We Free to Act or Determined by Causality?
This post was originally published on Filosofía en la Red. It has been translated as part of the APA Blog’s ongoing collaboration with them. The...
The Privacy of First-Personal Perspective: Engaging with Indian Philosophy on Cosmopsychism
Imagine coming across a red flower—you will experience it from your own first-person perspective: you may smell its scent, recall seeing it before, and...