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PEA Soup

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Category: Applied Ethics

Academia, Applied Ethics Posted onJanuary 30, 2010

Consumers’ Obligations in Labor Disputes

Over at The Business Ethics Blog, Chris MacDonald has a very interesting post on ethical issues surrounding the labor dispute at the Westin St. Francis, […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onJanuary 25, 2010

The Epistemology of Advance Directives

Here’s the familiar hard case: At 50, younger-Meredith (YM), just diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, signs an advance directive (AD) expressing her preference that her doctors do […] Read More

Applied Ethics, Discussions Posted onDecember 31, 2009

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Cécile Fabre’s “Guns, Food, and Liability to Attack in War”

We are pleased to announce the first installment of our collaboration with Ethics, where we will host a discussion of one article from each issue […] Read More

Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics Posted onDecember 20, 2009

The Ethics of Santa

Many people teach their small children the myth of Santa Claus:  that a magical being who lives at the North Pole brings presents on Christmas […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onOctober 12, 2009

Smilansky’s non-punishment paradox

Saul Smilansky's 10 Moral Paradoxes is a delightful book. The paradoxes are easy to appreciate and though it's written in a light and accessible style, […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onAugust 18, 2009

Does Benatar’s asymmetry argument generalize?

Coming to exist is always a harm. Or so argues David Benatar in his provocative book, Better Never to Have Been.A central pillar of Benatar's […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onAugust 12, 2009

Not in My Interests

BBC has estimated that, in the UK, about 85.000 women were raped in the year 2006. In the US, during the same year, 92.455 rapes were reported […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onJuly 29, 2009

Shifting burdens of proof in practical ethics

In my recent thinking about the ethics of suicide, I've been compelled to confront a methodological issue in practical ethics that I'd not really given […] Read More

Applied Ethics, The Profession Posted onJune 18, 2009

The ethics of the faculty furlough

Let's get a little down to earth here at PEA Soup: I may have to confront an actual ethical quandary in a few months, and […] Read More

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