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
Category: Applied Ethics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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