Philosophical Health Check: How consistent are your philosophical beliefs? Philosophical Health Check
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/check.htm)
A game designed to test the consistency of your philosophical beliefs from
The Philosophers' Magazine Online The Nature of Knowledge:
Can you be sure that you’re
not living in
the Matrix? Strange New World
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/matrix_start.htm)
A game designed to explore the possibility of living in the Matrix from The
Philosophers' Magazine Online The Nature of Personal Identity: What sort of changes can you undergo and
remain the same person? Staying Alive
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/identity.htm)
A game designed to test the consistency of your theory of personal identity
from The Philosophers' Magazine Online The Nature of Morality: How complex are your moral principles? Morality Play
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/morality_play.htm)
A game designed to test the parsimoniousness of your moral principles from
The Philosophers' Magazine Online The Nature of God: How consistent is your view of God? Battleground God:
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/god.htm)
A game designed to test the consistency of your view of God from The Philosophers'
Magazine Online So You Think You're Logical: How good are you at testing hypotheses? So You Think You're Logical
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/logic_task.htm)
A game designed to test your critical thinking ability from The Philosophers'
Magazine Online Dealing with Science: How good are you at discovering scientific laws? Dealing with Science
(http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/dealing_with_science.htm)
A game designed to test your ability to discover scientific laws from The Philosophers'
Magazine Online Platonic Humans: Can human beings be defined as featherless bipeds? Featherless Biped
(http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=7061)
Anecdote regarding Plato's definition of a human being and Diogenes' refutation
of it Greek Philosophers and Aristophanes
(http://www.san.beck.org/GPJ4-GreekPhilosophers.html)
Article on Diogenes and other Greek philosophers by Sanderson Beck Definition
(http://www.plusroot.com/dbook/15Def.html)
Description of a number of criteria of adequacy that good definitions should
meet from plusroot.com The Ethical Force of Definitions
(http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~walton/papers%20in%20pdf/80ethical.pdf)
Article by Douglas N. Walton (University of Winnipeg) on the importance of
good definitions in ethical debate Non-Human Persons: Can non-humans be persons? Right and Wrong in Biotechnology: What we Don't Know Tells Us What We Can't
Do
(http://www.theuniversityconcourse.com/VIII,2,1-13-2003/Crosby.htm)
Article by John Henry Crosby (The University Concourse) arguing that embryos
don't show themselves to be persons Can Androids Feel Pain?
(http://slashdot.org/features/99/09/19/225212.shtml)
Posting by Jon Katz on Slashdot.org Legal Rights of Robots
(http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/LegalRightsOfRobots.htm)
Article by Robert A. Freitas arguing that self-aware robots should have rights The Terri Schiavo Case: If Terri Schiavo was not a person, was removing the feeding tube an act of murder? Ethics and Personhood: Some Issues in Contemporary Neurological Science and Technology
(http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/personhood.html)
Article by David L. Perry Brain Death and Technological Change: Personal Identity, Neural Prostheses and Uploading
(http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/BD/Brain.html)
Article by James J. Hughes prepared for the Second International Symposium on Brain Death Care of PVS Patients
(http://www.op.org/domcentral/study/kor/pvscare.htm)
Catholic view of those in a permanent vegetative state An alternative conceptual structure for the resolution of end-of-life
(http://homepage.eircom.net/%7Eroche/PVSThesis/index.html)
Thesis on the problems associated with those in a permanent vegetative state Decisions about Death
( http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/200508--.htm )
Article by Peter Singer Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death
(http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/winter98/biology_consciousness.htm)
Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
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