Bioethics

PHIL 3345. Supporting the philosophical study of bioethics, bio-medical ethics, biotechnology, and the future of life, at Middle Tennessee State University and beyond... "Keep your health, your splendid health. It is better than all the truths under the firmament." William James

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Leukemia

Atul Gawande: This is your must read this week. So read this. It is about leukemia and the powers and limits of science and the te...

Saturday, November 22, 2025

CDC is brain-dead

The CDC website has been lobotomized. Where it once presented the decades of evidence debunking the false claims of a link between vaccines ...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Kennedy’s Comments on Circumcision Are Only Going to Confuse and Shame Parents

…Circumcision is an instructive example, because it epitomizes the Kennedy method of undermining public health expertise. Whether this is co...

Friday, October 10, 2025

The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

… A.I. is highly capable. Its capabilities are accelerating. And the risks those capabilities present are real. Biological life on this pla...

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements

As Americans take more gummies, pills and powders than ever, some physicians are trying to convince patients to be a bit more careful. Earli...

Monday, October 6, 2025

"Health became a competition"

...Health became a competition, encouraged by the advent of watches that track your vital signs and biomarkerbased "clocks" that m...

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Dr. Megan Craig, Stony Brook University, at MTSU’s Applied Philosophy Ly...

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About Me

Phil: BIO. The author of "William James's Springs of Delight: The Return to Life," Phil Oliver specializes in the American philosophical tradition with supporting interests in applied ethics (particularly Bioethics and Environmental Ethics), Anglo-American literature, history, humanism, naturalism, science and exploration, peripatetic ("walking & talking") philosophy, baseball, cycling, swimming, the pursuit of happiness, and the perpetual dawn of day. One of his favorite MTSU courses is The Philosophy of Happiness. He is academic advisor for minors in American Culture (American Studies). You can follow him on Mastodon (@osopher@c.im) and on his blogsite Up@dawn but of course, as Immaneul Kant and Monty Python's Brian Cohen agreed: You don't have to follow anybody. "Sapere aude," have the courage to think for yourself. But not by yourself. Good philosophy collaborates and converses. (Full disclosure: finally replaced that profile photo caricature drawn by a London street artist many years ago. Current image from March 2020, at Spring Training in Scottsdale.

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