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Should Teaching be Open Access?

Many universities have begun making teaching material freely available online. In 2012 the UK’s Open University launched a platform, FutureLearn, where one can take a ‘Massive Open Online Course’, from...

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Should we have a compulsory national civilian service?

The best blog posts are fashionable. They deal with questions, events, or ideas that are current or topical. This blog post does not do this. It deals with an idea that is very much out of fashion....

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The Need for Content Notes and Trigger Warnings in Seminars

Photo by Goska Smierzchalska / CC BY-NC 2.0Content note: this post contains a discussion of sexual violence and rape.A few weeks ago I was at a seminar where the speaker unexpectedly diverted from the...

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Does systemic injustice justify Robin Hood strategies?Many injustices arise because of patterns of behaviour, single instances of which seem harmless or at least pardonable. For example, if professors...

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Mid-Season Break

Justice Everywhere will have a one-week break at its mid-season.  We shall return on 29th June 2014.

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21st Century Smoking

 At the British Medical Association’s (BMA) annual representatives meeting this week, doctors voted overwhelmingly to push for a permanent ban on the sale of cigarettes to those born after 2000....

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Taxing FIFA: Asides from having their board room modelled on the war room...

Some have called it the best football World Cup ever. And it has indeed been incredibly exciting.[1]Yet the circumstances which brought us the event (and will bring us future ones) are very troubling....

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Dribbling responsibility: What do we owe to the real losers of the World Cup?

#450131230 / gettyimages.com  In last week’s post, Siba drew our attention to one of the most widely noted events of this summer, the FIFA World Cup 2014. While taking notice of a wide range of ethical...

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What does it mean to be a spectator to injustice everwhere?

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The right to freedom of expression on facebook: Do we have a valid claim...

 Image by Giorgi Balakhadze, Wikimedia Commons (I have no rights to this image)So, it happened. One of my facebook friends got "edited". Without any further notice, one of his posts about the Gaza...

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Season Break

Justice Everywhere has a break during the summer time.We will return for a new season on 28th September.

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Can grading love and care (and other goods) be an injustice?It is a widespread intuition that some things in life cannot and should not be measured. For example, quantifying our love for a partner...

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In defence of a constitution for the UK

Magna Carta Memorial, by Karnaphuli / CC BY-NC 2.0In honour of the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, the United Kingdom is presently considering whether to adopt a written constitution.  Of course,...

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Two arguments on Scottish Independence, one for and one against

I was not personally affected by the vote for Scottish independence, but like many political junkies, I was very much interested. Though it wasn’t merely intellectual curiosity that drove me to follow...

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Are we socially (and not just legally) obligated to presume innocence?

Content note: this post contains and links to discussions of rape and sexual harassment.Social attitudes towards rape and sexual violence and harassment have over the last few years been undergoing...

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Defending Quotas

We live in a society that contains severe gender injustice. One way in which to combat this injustice is via the use of quota policies. A quota policy is a policy that requires that members of certain...

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The (in)justice of critical philosophy of race?

In a recent presentation about a relatively new academic field called the critical philosophy of race, I was (repeatedly) questioned about the reasons for retaining the concept of race after it has...

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New Year Wishes

Justice Everywhere is taking a break during the winter holiday period.  We shall return on 25th January.

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'Truman Care' for Dementia

On the outskirts of Amsterdam, there is a small village called Hogewey, notable because all of its 152 residents have severe or extreme dementia. Hogewey is a gated model village, complete with town...

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On taxing meat – why (not)?

A recent study indicates that reducing the consumption of meat would help considerably to slow down climate change. It may even be one of the most efficient ways to do so, since livestock emissions are...

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Beneficial competition or attack on legitimate interests: What to make of...

View image | gettyimages.comImagine you are standing on the street and waiting for a taxi to take you home. While you are having second thoughts as to whether the convenience of a taxi ride is really...

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Equal Suffering: for a just distribution of airplane flight routes

There is a long-standing debate in Belgium over the choice of flight routes around the national airport located northeast of the capital, Brussels. A plan last year that reorganized departure routes,...

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How to criticise a gender norm

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }P.western { }A:link { }This post is about how to go about criticising gender norms (in a wide sense of the term, including explicit expectations but also things like gender...

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