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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 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
When It Comes to Privacy, We Shouldn’t Have to “EARN-IT”
The push to hold Facebook and Pinterest accountable for illicit material circulated by private users on their sites may also undermine our internet privacy and put limits on free speech.
To My Fellow Students and Our Institutions:
Just as in the case of climate change, it seems we have a difficult time organizing to combat an unseen threat. Is education the answer?
The Politicization of Disease
The current pandemic is but another opportunity to observe the perennial conflict between private interest and public good.
Culture
Gay Representation and ‘Onward’
Corporations often try to brand themselves as inclusive and progressive, but is there any substance behind these labels or is it all just marketing?
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.
Recent
Re-Thinking Mass Incarceration: COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons
Prisons are a hotbed for spreading infectious disease, and we've changed policies to accommodate this fact. But these changes should also make us reconsider how they function in normal circumstances.
When It Comes to Privacy, We Shouldn’t Have to “EARN-IT”
The push to hold Facebook and Pinterest accountable for illicit material circulated by private users on their sites may also undermine our internet privacy and put limits on free speech.
The Ethics of Triage
What principles can we lean on when making weighing need against prognosis? How should uncertainty and scarcity of resources change our decision-making?
Swamping, Epistemic Trespassing, and Coronavirus
With just one news story occupying so much of our attention, we become more susceptible to manipulation.
To My Fellow Students and Our Institutions:
Just as in the case of climate change, it seems we have a difficult time organizing to combat an unseen threat. Is education the answer?
The Politicization of Disease
The current pandemic is but another opportunity to observe the perennial conflict between private interest and public good.