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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Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Techno-Futuristic Philosophy Behind Elon Musk’s Mania

"…The balance of evidence is such that it would appear unreasonable not to assign a substantial probability to the hypothesis that an e...

Monday, May 26, 2025

Brain (& heart) drain

Dr. Timothy Johnson, longtime network TV medical reporter and founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter, says that by cutt...

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The President Will Destroy You Now

"…This is going to completely kneecap biomedical research in this country," Jennifer Zeitzer, the deputy executive director at the...

Monday, May 19, 2025

The best in us

Born on this day in 1872, Bertrand Russell lived nearly a century, through two world wars, and won the Nobel Prize for his timeless writing ...

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Go to Mars, Never Die and Other Big Tech Pipe Dreams

… One prominent paper concluded that $100 spent on A.I. safety saves one trillion future lives — making it "far more" valuable ...

Friday, May 16, 2025

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

The technique used on a 9½-month-old boy with a rare condition has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic dis...

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

A Longevity Expert’s 5 Tips for Aging Well

"There are simple steps you can take to improve your mental health and delay disease, Dr. Topol said, such as spending time outdoors. O...

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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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