This post was inspired by a story in the WaPo, the relevant detail of which is that, due to the economic hardship in Greece, some […] Read More
Category: Applied Ethics
The second annual conference of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham welcomes submissions […] Read More
The Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics (GISME), located in Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, invites applications for the 2015 Junior […] Read More
Policing and Prisons: Ethical and Political Questions about Law Enforcement and Incarceration The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place […] Read More
Photo credit: Tristan Schmurr Lying is an important social and moral category. We react negatively to liars and their lies. But what is it to […] Read More
It’s been a couple of days since the Senate released the torture report. The discussion in the press seems to concern (a) whether it really […] Read More
I’m preparing a course on climate change ethics and as a part of this I am reading again John Broome’s fascinating Climate Matters – Ethics […] Read More
Ken Shockey from the University of Buffalo asked me to post the following call for abstracts for a workshop on Loss, Damage and Harm. This […] Read More
It is not rare to see groups of enraged people engaged in destructive behavior when you turn on the news these days. Such behavior is […] Read More