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Strict materialism is hardly a new idea but there are few scientists who are more daring about taking it to its logical conclusions than Patricia...

The ethics of creating autonomous and intelligent robots used to be a purely speculative question. But with the development of drones, self-navigated cruise missiles and...

How should bioethicists engage with media? Gingerly, says Dr Syd Johnson, of Michigan Technological University, in an essay on the Impact Ethics blog. How should...

A spirited debate arose in the US last week over the withdrawal of life support from a recently paralysed hunter. A spirited debate arose in...

The monolithic concept of autonomy may be fissuring, judging from recent articles in the bioethics journals. In debates over key issues at the beginning and...

Some areas of anatomy still carry the taint of Nazi atrocities. More revelations about the medical profession under the Nazis in this week’s Slate. A...

While some maintain that artificial intelligence is just as much an oxymoron as Army Intelligence, others regard it as a grave threat to the future...

Like human dignity, autonomy is a word more honoured than analysed, even though it is the cornerstone of most contemporary bioethics approaches. Like human dignity,...

The majority – perhaps the vast majority – of neuroscience findings are as spurious as brain waves in a dead fish The burgeoning field of...

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Moral abolitionists want to do away with morality altogether. Bioethics is like ice cream: there are many different flavours on a common base. There is...