The European Society for the Study of Tourette syndrome (ESSTS) was established in Denmark in 2000 by Mary Robertson and Anne Korsgaard. The aims of the organisation are to foster research activity and raise awareness of Tourette syndrome throughout Europe. The organisation went into abeyance in 2002 but was resurrected in 2007 in Bari, Italy. Since that time ESSTS has grown and prospered. We h...

Building on her previous work (2004, 2012, 2013), Christine Korsgaard’s recent book Fellow Creatures (2018) has provided the most highly developed Kantian account of duties towards animals. I raise two issues with results this account. First, that Korsgaard accounts for are “towards” animals in name only. Since does not reject conception which direct others require mutual moral constraint, what...

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Tardive syndromes (TDS) are a group of movement disorders. Tardive dyskinesia is the best-known type of TDS. Another type of TDS is tardive dystonia. TDS cause body parts to move uncontrollably. Tardive dyskinesia and tardive dystonia are caused by dopamine receptor blocking agents, mostly antipsychotics but occasionally antidepressants (Jankovic 1995). However, tardive dystonia associated with...

christine Korsgaard attempts to reinterpret Kan� tian ethics in a way that might alleviate bernard Williams’ famous worry that a man cannot save his drowning wife without determining impar� tially that he may do so. she does this by dividing a reflective self that chooses the commitments that make up an agent’s practical identity from a self defined as a jumble of desires. An agent, she then ar...

Our thesis in Fairness versus Welfare is that social policies should be assessed entirely on the basis of how they affect individuals’ well-being. This claim implies that no independent weight should be granted to deontological principles. We support our thesis with three sets of arguments: a demonstration that deontological principles lead to perverse reductions in welfare, indeed, sometimes t...