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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

New Paper - Human Enhancement, Social Solidarity and the Distribution of Responsibility

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I have a new paper coming out in the journal Ethical Theory and Moral Practice . This one deals with two objections to human enhanceme...
Friday, July 10, 2015

The Case for a Marriage-Free State

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The last couple of months have seen major victories for marriage equality. In May, Ireland voted to legalise same-sex marriage in a n...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Is effective regulation of AI possible? Eight potential regulatory problems

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The halcyon days of the mid-20th century, when researchers at the (in?)famous Dartmouth summer school on AI dreamed of creating the fi...
Saturday, July 4, 2015

Humanism, Transhumanism, and Speculative Posthumanism

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I have recently been working my through David Roden’s book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human . It is a unique and fa...
Monday, June 29, 2015

Technological Unemployment and Personal Well-being: Does work make us happy?

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Let’s assume technological unemployment is going to happen. Let’s assume that automating technologies will take over the majority of e...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism

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You have probably noticed it already. There is a strange logic at the heart of the modern tech industry. The goal of many new tech sta...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Drunken Consent to Sex and Personal Responsibility

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( Previous entry ) This post is part of an ongoing series on the ethics of intoxicated consent to sexual relations. The series is wo...