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Love on The Brain: Does Being Passionately in Love Undo Moral Responsibility?
Love, for some people, is appropriately described as an intimate madness. It was once the case that love could be used as a valid defense to nullify certain crimes or responsibilities. Such crimes were referred to as “crimes of passion” or “crime passionnel” and were understood as crimes committed because of a strong, passionate impulse … Continue reading
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Much of the discussions about when sex is good, and what sex is, coalesce around an underdeveloped notion of sexual agency. The ontological items that we carry into our perceptions of sexual agency have both explicit and implicit implications towards sex work, and whether we find participating in it morally acceptable, or repugnant. The problem … Continue reading
Please Note: The above picture is NOT Mary Moe, but a photograph expressing the mental condition of Schizophrenia. The curious case of Mary Moe has garnered significant ethical discussion, but most of the ethical discussions regarding this case seems to ignore some major ethical issues and questions. It will be the task of this blog … Continue reading
I have been thinking about essentialism lateley. Anti-essentialism, in particular, seems to be all the rage nowadays in disability studies and gender studies. Essentialism, so the argument goes, is clearly false, so any theory on gender or disability that even closely resembles essentialism is also clearly false. Some philosophers even cash out discussions of what … Continue reading
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