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.

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

European Court Rules Against (almost all) Patenting of Embryonic Stem Cells

Yesterday, the European Court publicized its ruling on the controversial case of the patentability of human emryonic stem cell lines (hESC) ...

Saturday, 8 October 2011

The Seductive Power of Nationism: from Revocable Citizenship to Abolishment of the Citizenship Idea

This week, a development that I predicted in a series of posts on the ideology of the new European racism ( here , here , here ) has occurre...

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Call for Retraction of Article Claiming Abortion to Cause Mental Health Problems

The controversy grows regarding an article published in the British Journal of Psychiatry some weeks back by Priscilla K. Coleman, presenti...

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

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