I apologise for this but I want to return to the Doctrine of Double Effect. One thing that Tim Scanlon said in the comments was […] Read More
Category: Applied Ethics
There's been an important discussion going on at Brian Leiter's blog (here and here). There's a petition, signed by well over 1000 members of the […] Read More
Several months back, Ralph's post on torture provoked a good deal of valuable discussion, so I wanted to draw attention to C.A.J. Coady's review of […] Read More
The Catholic Church has just published THIS document which will be of interest for everyone working in the applied ethics and bioethics. The Catholic Church's […] Read More
I just read a chapter about slave reparations by my colleague David Boonin. David presents an interesting and surprisingly strong argument in favor of reparations. […] Read More
Rumor has it that there’s a presidential election scheduled in the U.S. this fall, which raises the perennial ethical question: Is there a duty to […] Read More
When teaching ethics courses, I often spend some time with students going over some of the relevant social psychological literature. Studies like the Milgram experimients, […] Read More
Folks who work on oppression often distinguish oppression attributable to individuals from oppression attributable to institutions. Thus, there’s a lot of discussion about institutional racism […] Read More
Many philosophers believe that suicide is permissible in at least some circumstances. Others go further and claim that there are circumstances in which suicide is […] Read More