Neil Levy

Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Neil Levy is a senior research fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Consciousness and Moral Responsibility (2014). He lives in Sydney.

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Written by Neil Levy

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ideaEthics

Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?

Neil Levy

A group of people in front of a building labelled ‘The Student Store’, one raises a finger, others appear to be shouting.

ideaValues and beliefs

Why no-platforming is sometimes a justifiable position

Neil Levy

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ideaEthics

So you’re too ethical to eat meat; but should cows go extinct?

Neil Levy

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ideaEthics

Would it be immoral to send out a generation starship?

Neil Levy

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ideaEthics

Does the desire to punish have any place in modern justice?

Neil Levy