Last night, on the eve of Saint Valentine’s Day, I had the pleasure of attending a colloquium featuring the distinguished professor William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania). He visited the University of North Florida and gave a guest lecture on the “Desires of the Dying: Japanese Qualms about the Bioethics of our Time”.
Archive for the ‘Bioethics’ Category
On Organs and the Mighty $$.
Posted in Asian Philosophy, Bioethics, Business Ethics, Ethics, General Interest on February 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Philosophy Soup
Posted in Bioethics, Epistemology, General Interest, News & Notes, Philosophy of Religion on June 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Our friends at Philosophy@Utah State have an interesting discussion going that seems related to the Epicurus discussion we had going here last month: Religious Authenticity.
The Space of Reasons, previous Philosophers’ Carnival host, always has great discussion. The most recent post is: Lottery Argument Against Defeasible Evidence - a must for anyone interested in Epistemology.
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Ethics Symosium on End of Life Issues
Posted in Bioethics, News & Notes on April 24, 2007 | No Comments »
… at UCF, Wednesday, April 25th.
- Rico Vitz
Life-Sustaining Treatment, Terminal Sedation, and Euthanasia
Posted in Bioethics, Ethics on January 30, 2007 | 14 Comments »
A currently debated issue in bioethics is whether the presently legal practices of withholding and withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment (hereafter WWLST) and terminal sedation will lead to the more controversial practice of euthanasia. In the following post I will give a brief description of WWLST and terminal sedation and give a few reasons why they [...]
