Double Effect and Human Rights in War
The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower.
Nigel Biggar
· 6 min read
Ethics
A collection of 12 posts
The Debate Over Lab-Grown Meat
Are concerns about cultured meat justified?
Matthew Adelstein
· 9 min read
The Real Problem with Plagiarism
Students who profess to care about justice but not about the truth will end up with neither.
Ben Bayer
· 8 min read
How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way
It is time for the EA movement to rediscover humanism.
Matt Johnson
· 29 min read
As a Hereditarian, I Strongly Support Economic Redistribution
A recognition that genetic influences on social outcomes are important will potentially influence the kind of help that society offers poorer individuals. But it does not in any way compel an absence of help, or a casual indifference.
Gregory Clark
· 7 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr.
· 16 min read
Secular Morality Does Not Depend on Faith
Here, then, we have a secular ethics connected not to 'nothing,' but to a preference for justice, fairness, and impartiality.
Jerry A. Coyne
· 3 min read
Is Hayek's Moral Vision Compatible with Democracy?
As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism.
David Peterson
· 6 min read
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson: Heroes for Moral Realism?
I see very little promise in grounding a moral realism (insofar as such a thing is ultimately a viable project) in terms of evolutionary fitness, and much more promise is taking Harris’ tack.
John Klasios
· 11 min read
What is a Racist? Why Moral Progress Hinges on Getting the Answer Right
We are not arguing that racism has vanished, or that racists don’t exist. We’re making precisely the opposite argument.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 5 min read
FBI Director Comey: Straight Shooter or Feckless Careerist? How About Neither
FBI Director Comey's call not to charge Hillary Clinton aimed to avoid political turmoil in a charged climate.
Deion Kathawa
· 5 min read
Inaction is an Active Choice
A large section of the critics of intervention today are making similar assumptions in both the moral and practical assessments of the choices before us.
David Paxton
· 6 min read