Philosophical Comment

Just as it says: the comments of a philosopher on the high and the low; world events, phenomena encountered and, occasionally, the esoteric happenings of academia.

Thursday, 28 October 2010

Intermission on the certification of clinical ethics consultants, featuring Arthur Caplan

In my field of research, bioethics, there is usually a shortage of humor. Here is an exception, as renowned US bioethics professor Arthur Ca...

Monday, 4 October 2010

RIP Philippa Foot (1920-2010)

The news just reached me that Philippa Foot passed away yesterday, 90 years old. Reportedly, death was peaceful and the upshot of a series o...

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Uterus transplantation: ethics and pragmatics

Today, Swedish media report ( here , here , here , here , here , just to name a few) on plans of a group of researchers at the Sahlgrenska U...

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Christian Munthe: Professor of practical philosophy at the University of Gothenburg.

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