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Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics. Show all posts
Monday, 12 August 2024

The Distressed Spider and Intervention: A Thought Experiment

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By Keith Tidman To intervene, or not to intervene?   Philosopher Thomas Nagel set the stage for a curious thought experiment. Nagel describe...
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Monday, 4 March 2024

Picture Post #43 The Importance of Empathy

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  'Because things don’t appear to be the known thing; they aren’t what they seemed to be neither will they become what they might appear...
Thursday, 26 October 2023

Why Don't People Seem to Care about Palestinian Lives?

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Palestine is being ‘ethnically clensed’ in plain sight - yet the West seems indifferent By Martin Cohen P alestine is being ‘ethnically clea...
Monday, 7 August 2023

The Dubious Ethics of the Great Food Reset

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Picture “for a school project” By Martin Cohen   T here’s a plan afoot to change the way you eat. Meat is destroying the land, fish and chip...
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Monday, 12 June 2023

The Euthyphro Dilemma: What Makes Something Moral?

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The sixteenth-century nun and mystic, Saint Teresa. In her autobiography, she wrote that she  ‘ was very fond of St. Augustine …  for he was...
Monday, 12 December 2022

Determinism and Accountability

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By Keith Tidman P eople assume that  free will  and moral responsibility are mutually and inextricably interwoven. That is, the default beli...
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Monday, 11 April 2022

Europe’s Deadly Ethical Dilemma: Energy or Ethics?

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A political cartoon depicting Putin's relentless desire to crush democracy by any means, including using Russia's extensive oil prof...
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Monday, 14 February 2022

The Ethics of ‘Opt-out, Presumed-Consent’ Organ Donation

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By Keith Tidman A ccording to current data, in the United States alone, some 107,000 people are now awaiting a life-saving organ transplant....
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Monday, 27 December 2021

Can Thought Experiments Solve Ethical Dilemmas?

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In ethics, the appeal to expand the “moral circle” typically requires moving from consideration of yourself to that of all of nature. By Kei...
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Monday, 26 April 2021

The Problem of Inauthenticity

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Harry, Meghan and Oprah having a chat (Photocredit-HarpoProductions-JoePugliese) W hat was the ‘intention’ of  Mister and Missus Harry Mount...
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Monday, 16 March 2020

POETRY: A Greater Question (concerning the new coronavirus)

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Posted by Chengde Chen   * and Yingfang Zhang Part II  “Genetic engineering technology is designed to enable genes to cross specie...
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Monday, 24 February 2020

Poetry: Critique of Genetic Engineering

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Posted by Chengde Chen   * “Genetic engineering technology is designed to enable genes to cross species 
barriers.” – Martin Khor, ...
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