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Collective Action and Climate Change: Consumption, Defection, and Motivation
Individual incentives are at odds with collective rationality. How might models like the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Tragedy of the Commons illuminate our current predicament?
Natural Law Theory and Human Rights Advocacy
How should we understand the relation between law and morality? And what might this answer mean for human rights?
Disagreements in Ethical Reasoning: Opinion and Inquiry
Disagreement about our moral duties and obligations is inevitable. But this does not show that morality is a matter of opinion or that ethics is subjective.
Opinion
Institutions’ Right to Block: ICAO vs. Taiwan
What might justify an organization or government's wielding of exclusionary power? What does it mean to be removed from the conversation?
Why Isn’t Everybody Panicking? Scientific Reticence and the Duty to Scare...
How can we balance accuracy against alarmism? How can we avoid defeatism and instead inspire action? What does scientific accuracy demand?
Rising Sun Flag: Symbol of Hate or Cultural Pride?
Japan has claimed that the Rising Sun flag is not a political statement, but what other meaning can a flag have? And who gets to say what a flag symbolizes?
Culture
Ethical Messages at the Academy Awards
It has become common for those being honored to use their time on stage to comment on social justice issues. Should they?
The Good Place and the Good Life
NBC's show explores all manner of philosophical quandary, but focuses especially on the meaning of life and the morality in mortality.
The Witcher and the Lesser of Two Evils
Netflix's recent adaptation delves into philosophical issues from the problem of dirty hands to questions of utilitarian calculus.
Recent
Ethical Messages at the Academy Awards
It has become common for those being honored to use their time on stage to comment on social justice issues. Should they?
Is It Ethical to Extinguish a Species?
What is the proper metric to use in deciding another species' fate? What do we need to know in order to justify extinction?
Sensorvault and Ring: Private-Sector Data Collection Meets Law Enforcement
Digital profiling tools (like Google's Sensorvault) and surveillance gadgets (like Amazon's Ring) pose a significant threat to our privacy and blur the line between corporate and government interests.
Grassroots Environmentalism and California’s CAPP
Are local initiatives really a feasible substitute for large-scale regulation when it comes to environmental issues like air pollution?
Prejudice in the NFL?
The NFL has a troubling history of racial prejudice infecting everything from the huddle to the sidelines and the owner's box to the press box.
Owning a Monopoly on Knowledge Production
The epistemic impact of Google and Facebook's monopoly on information and communication poses a very real problem.