Philosophers Take On the World

Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing to the shocking, in short, engaging, often controversial pieces. Covering topics from guns to abortion, the morality of drinking alone, hating a sports team, and being rude to cold callers, the essays will make you think again about the judgments we make on a daily basis and the ways in which we choose to conduct our lives. Philosophers Take On the World is based on the blog run by the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, one of the world's leading centres for applied ethics.

David Edmonds is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is also an award winning documentary maker for BBC radio. He is the author, co-author, or editor, of 10 books which have been translated into 25 languages. They include, with John Eidinow, the international bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker. His latest book, Would You Kill The Fat Man was picked as Editor's Choice in the New York Times. With Nigel Warburton he co-runs Philosophy Bites (www.philosophybites.com ), the popular philosophy podcast which has had over 28 million downloads.

- Crime and Punishment - 1: Anders Herlitz: Time to Reconsider the Penal Code? - 2: Rebecca Roache: Enhanced Punishment - 3: Brian D. Earp: Degrees of Sexual Harm - Terrorism, Guns, and War - 4: Jeff McMahan: A Challenge to Gun Rights - 5: Allen Buchanan, Lance K. Stell: McMahan's Hazardous (and Irrelevant) Thought Experiment - 6: Seth Lazar: Travel, Friends, and Killing - 7: Roger Crisp: The Courageous Suicide Bomber? - 8: Owen Schaefer: Chemical Weapons: In Defence of Double Standards - 9: Cécile Fabre: Looted Artworks: A Portrait of Justice - Health and Medicine - 10: Steve Clarke: Homeopathy: An Undiluted Proposal - 11: Lachlan de Crespigny and Julian Savulescu: Five Minutes Too Late - 12: Tom Douglas: Taking Drugs to Help Others - 13: Charles Foster: My Son's Dyslexic And I'm Glad - 14: Janet Radcliffe Richards: The Point of Death - 15: Lynn Gillam: Is it Ethical to use Data from Nazi Medical Experiments? - 16: Jonathan Pugh: Financial Incentives, Coercion, and Psychosis - 17: Julian Savulescu: Mr Nicklinson and the Right To Die - Drugs and Organs - 18: Dominic Wilkinson: In Praise of Organ-ised sport - 19: Janet Radcliffe Richards: Do We Own Our Bodies? - 20: Katrien Devolder: Psychiatric Drugs and Religious Norms - Religion and Charity - 21: Tony Coady: Catholic Identity and Strong Dissent - How Compatible? - 22: William MacAskill: Banking: The Ethical Career Choice? - 23: Charles Foster: On Rebuilding Noah's Ark and Drinking Old Burgundy - 24: Simon Rippon: Should Conservative Christians be Allowed to Foster Children? - Sex, Sex-equality and Sexuality - 25: Brian D. Earp: Can You Be Gay By Choice? - 26: Brian D. Earp: Prostitution and Disability - 27: Chris Gyngell: Artificial Wombs and a visit to Birland - 28: Rebecca Roache: Is Unwanted Pregnancy A Medical Disorder? - 29: Simon Rippon: Is Half An Abortion Worse than a Whole One? - 30: Dominic Wilkinson: Nick-less? - 31: Kyle T. Edwards: Paedophilia and Predisposition - 32: Ole Martin Moen: Checking People Out - 33: David Edmonds: Female Philosophers and Sexual Harassment - 34: Hilary Greaves: An Unfortunate State of Affairs - Sport - 35: Joshua Shepherd: The Morality of Sport Hatred - 36: Julian Savulescu: Doping: When Will We Learn? - 37: David Edmonds: Tennis and Sex - Brains - 38: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: My Brain Made Me Do It - So What? - 39: Simon Rippon: My Client's Brain is to Blame - 40: Regina Rini: Mapping Brains and Finding Direction - Language, Speech and Freedom - 41: Peter Singer: Countering Islam extremism - 42: Neil Levy: Disabling Language - 43: Kei Hiruta: Stop Orientalism? - 44: Roger Crisp: The Naked Truth - 45: Kyle T. Edwards: Porn, Condoms, and Liberty - 46: Jim A.C. Everett: Should Men Be Allowed to Discuss Abortion? - Evil, Disgust, Shame, Rudeness, and Joy - 47: Regina Rini: A Reflection on Confronting Evil - 48: Andreas Kappes: Shame about the Internet - 49: Rebecca Roache and Hannah Maslen: In Defence of Drinking Alone - 50: David Edmonds: Lady Thatcher is Dead: Pop Open The Champagne - 51: Anders Sandberg: Steamy Calamari and Trans-species Eroticism - 52: Anders Sandberg: Nothing is like Mother's Ice Cream - 53: Hannah Maslen: Rudeness and Cold Callers - Animals - 54: Christine Korsgaard: Treated Like Animals - 55: Russell Powell: What is a Pet Worth? - 56: Michelle Hutchinson: The Best Idea You've Heard All Year - The Future and its People - 57: Stuart Armstrong: Enlightened Surveillance - 58: James Williams: Why It's OK to Block Ads - 59: Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh: Would You Hand Over A Decision To Machines? - 60: Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Julian Savulescu: Should We Be Erasing Memories - 61: Theron Plummer: Adding Happy People - 62: Guy Kahane: The Pregnant Man and Other Conceptual Surprises