Philosophy & Ethics

How Do Americans View Organ Donation?

43 percent of people are undecided, reluctant or do not wish to have their organs and tissue donated after their deaths, according to a new survey conducted by Donate Life America. The results shows an increase in the number of people willing to donate com ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 12 2010 - 6:44pm

Interface II: The Wrong Hands

Recent comments on a certain article (hey, what does that green button do?) about the future of neural interface technologies have brought up some valid ethical arguments.  Because I didn't want to go Jurassic Park and revel in the possibilities while ...

Article - David Sloan - Apr 14 2010 - 6:33pm

To the 25th anniversary of Badabera revolt of Soviet and Afghan captives in Pakistan

The Russian TV channel STS has recently shown all movies about Rambo. I like the films and Stallone despite of the fact that Rambo, in the 3rd movie, kills Soviet soldiers and officers in Afghanistan. It is exactly the 1st point to stress in this review: i ...

Blog Post - Pavel Kurakin - Apr 16 2010 - 4:38am

Philosophy for kids

About a week ago, I asked the question " What is the most important field of science for the public?" Many of the comments suggested that general reasoning skills are more important than any particular scientific knowledge because they would prov ...

Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Apr 21 2010 - 10:36am

About Sam Harris’ Claim That Science Can Answer Moral Questions

The buzz in secular circles lately has been about a  TED talk  by Sam Harris, the author of  The End of Faith, ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 22 2010 - 6:14pm

The Future Of Philosophy Of Science

I am in Tilburg, Netherlands, for a conference on the future of philosophy of science. Ah!, you might say, and what would  that  look like? ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 26 2010 - 10:27pm

The Origins Of Virtue

A few weeks ago I picked up a copy of Matt Ridley’s The Origins of Virtue at a second-hand bookstore, (never give a gene-centric a royalty, I always say!) but I must say that it is well-written, interesting, loaded with facts without being tedious, and wor ...

Article - Steve Davis - May 10 2010 - 11:54am

Case History: Medical And Ethical Quandary

In medicine, physicians often present case histories or case reports of an interesting situation/patient, along with the outcome (typically a diagnosis) and discussion. 1 On controversial cases, medical ethics can be invoked (although not quite to the expe ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 14 2010 - 4:42pm

Participatory And Emancipatory Autism Research: What’s The Problem?

Today I am including a guest paper on this blog, from my academic supervisor, Dr Mitzi Waltz.   The paper written back in 2006, and things have improved slightly since, two of the organisations cited have since merged to become "Autism Speaks" an ...

Article - Laurence Arnold - May 16 2010 - 1:12pm

The Science Of Whitewash

The Science Of Whitewash A complaint often leveled against climate scientists is that they fake their graphs and that investigations into such fakery which fail to show fakery must accordingly be a whitewash. I have news for these people. All graphs are f ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 5 2010 - 5:10pm