Philosophy & Ethics

Moral Agency: What Is Stopping Terrorism Worth?

In the modern American political climate, we see echoes of 40 years ago, when Richard Nixon was president. Federal agencies are being used as hatchetmen for the administration, copies of messages mysteriously get lost when subpoenaed by Congress, and if a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 4:29pm

A Greedy CEO Is Good For Shareholders- If There Is A Strong Board Of Directors

Steve Jobs was a good CEO, a visionary. He was also known as a monster driven to fits of rage and a known SEC law violator who gave himself stock options without bothering to tell anyone. He gave nothing to charity. He was in both a personal and a busines ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2014 - 10:05pm

Suicide For Birthday Best Present Ever

     Today is my 43 rd birthday. When I was 34 years old, I walked along a narrow river through the city of Nanning in the south of China. I was lonely and depressed, no matter the PhD degree I had recently obtained, my freedom, the beauty all around, the ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 18 2014 - 5:15pm

No One Expects The Organics Inquisition

In 312, Roman Emperor Constantine was told in a dream to paint a cross on his army’s shields. [1] Based on that dream, he commanded his generals to slap crosses on pretty much everything. If it went into battle, it had a cross on it. And lo, when his army ...

Article - Norm Benson - Jul 30 2014 - 11:57am

Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics Get A 21st Century Health Care Update

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws Of Robotics, from the story "Runaround" in 1942, are arguably the most famous example of fictional ethics becoming so fundamental they are adopted spontaneously by everyone in an industry that hadn't even been ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 10:26pm

In The Age Of Informed Consent, How To Test Experimental Ebola Drugs Fairly?

Getting informed consent from desperate people and their families for experimental treatments is quite easy. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2014 - 6:30pm

Epidemic Ethics: Four Lessons From The Current Ebola Outbreak

A Liberian nurse disinfects a looted mattress taken from an elementary school that was used as an Ebola isolation unit in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia. AHMED JALLANZO/EPA By Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney and Lyn Gilbert, University of Sydney ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 26 2014 - 8:00am

Telling Right From Wrong: Why Is Utilitarianism Under Attack?

Is morality and happiness determined by how you affect the people around you? Credit: Shutterstock By Peter Bowden, University of Sydney It is a word we hear from time to time, but few of us know what it means. ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 29 2014 - 9:47pm

Ethno-Psychiatry: How The British Treated "Hardcore" Women In The Mau Mau Rebellion

New research on the treatment of 'hardcore' female Mau Mau prisoners by the British in the late 1950s sheds new light on how ideas about gender, deviancy and mental health shaped colonial practices of punishment. The treatment of the Mau Mau by t ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2014 - 1:00pm

Misogyny Wins With Hacking Of Intimate Celebrity Pictures – But You Can Choose Not To Look

Jennifer Lawrence at the 83rd Academy Awards. CC BY-SA 2.0 By Emma Rees, University of Chester ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 2 2014 - 2:00pm