Announcing the Winners and Runners Up in the 9th Annual National Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics

Please be part of us in congratulating all 4 of the finalists within the Nationwide Oxford Uehiro Prize in Sensible Ethics 2023, and specifically our winners, Lukas Joosten and Avital Fried. We’d additionally prefer to thank our judges, Prof Roger Crisp, Prof Edward Harcourt and Dr Sarah Raskoff.

This, the ultimate of the ninth Annual Nationwide Oxford Uehiro Prize in Sensible Ethics, was held on the 14^th March within the lecture theatre of the College of Philosophy, in addition to on-line. Throughout the remaining the 4 finalists offered their papers and concepts to an viewers and responded to a brief Q&A because the deciding spherical within the competitors. A choice of the profitable essays and honourable mentions will probably be revealed on this weblog.

Undergraduate Class:

Lukas Joosten presenting his paper on the prize

Winner: Lukas Joosten, “Turning up the Hedonic Treadmill: Is it Morally Impermissible for Mother and father to Give Their Kids a Luxurious Commonplace of Residing?”

Chase Mizzell presenting

Runner Up: Chase Mizzell, “Towards Utilizing AI to Affect Our Future Selves in Methods That Bypass or Subvert Rationality”

Honourable Mentions: James French: How can we deal with the gender hole in anaesthesia and the broader medical office?

Leah O’Grady, “What is wrong with stating slurs?”

Tanae Rao, “Why the Responsibility Gap is Not a Compelling Objection to Lethal Autonomous Weapons”

Maria Rotaru, “Causal hyperlinks and duties to previous, current, and future generations: why and to whom do the prosperous have ethical obligations?”

Graduate Class:

Avital Fried the winner of the graduate class

Winner: Avital Fried, “Prison Confessions and Content material-Delicate Testimonial Injustice”

Runner Up: Leora Urim Sung, “Ought to I Give or Save?”

Honourable Mentions:

Leora Sung presenting her paper

Samuel Iglesias, “Ethical Biological Naturalism and the Case Against Moral Status for AIs”

Thomas Long, “The Ambiguous Ethicality of Applause: Ethnography’s Uncomfortable Challenge to the Ethical Subject”

Pablo Neira, “Why Preventing Predation Can Be a Morally Right Cause for Effective Altruism?”

Kyle van Oosterum, “How Confucian Harmony Can Help Us Deal With Echo Chambers”

Trenton Andrew Sewell, “Should Social Media Companies Use Artificial Intelligence to Automate Content Moderation on their Platforms and, if so, Under What Conditions?”

James Shearer, “Do we’ve got an Obligation to Diversify our Media Consumption?”

Lucy Simpson, “Why Our Actions Matter: The Case for Fluid Ethical Standing.”