Monthly Archives: April 2012

Bioethics book due out later this month!

  Finally! My bioethics: An Introduction will be coming out later this month! I enjoyed writing it enormously. Bioethics is a fascinating subject. Check out its website: http://www.cambridge.org/bioethics/    

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April Conundrum

How should we distinguish the notions of ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’? It is a knotty problem because it is clear that there are, for example, objective facts about subjective states. Either you are happy, for example, or you are not, if … Continue reading

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The Duties of Director of Studies in Philosophy

Amongst my duties as Director of Studies in Philosophy atOxfordUniversity’s Department for Continuing Education is to set up each year’s programme of philosophy courses. All our courses are open to the public, and it is important that they represent a … Continue reading

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