The moral limitations of in vitro meat
By Ben Levinstein and Anders Sandberg Almost everybody agrees factory farming is morally outrageous, with several billions of animals living lives that are likely not worth living. One possible solution to this moral disaster is to make in …
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Less cooperation, please
Written by Joao Fabiano Since the idea of enhancing human morality was proposed – and perhaps long before then – there has been a great deal of scientific research directly or indirectly inspired by the goal of improving human moral d…
Read MoreGuest Post: Must we throw out the brain with the bathwater? Marc Lewis on addiction
Written by Anke Snoek Macquarie University When neuroscience started to mingle into the debate on addiction and self-control, people aimed to use these insights to cause a paradigm shift in how we judge people struggling with addictions. Pe…
Read MoreGuest Post: Smart drugs, Smart choice
Written by Benjamin Pojer and Daniel D’Hotman Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science, Monash University Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford A recent review published in the European Journal…
Read MorePsychology is not in crisis? Depends on what you mean by “crisis”
By Brian D. Earp @briandavidearp *Note that this article was originally published at the Huffington Post. Introduction In the New York Times yesterday, psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett argues that “Psychology is Not in Crisis.”…
Read MoreThe Ethics of Compulsory Chemical Castration: Is Non-Consensual Treatment Ever Permissible?
By Jonathan Pugh Tory Grant, the justice minister for New South Wales (NSW) in Australia, has announced the establishment of a task force to investigate the potential for the increased use of anti-libidinal treatments (otherwise known as ch…
Read MoreGuest Post: Why Don’t We Do More to Help the Global Poor?
Simon Keller, Victoria University of Wellington Read more in the current issue of the Journal of Practical Ethics There is good reason to believe that people living comfortable lives in affluent countries should do more to help impoverished…
Read MoreWhy ethicists should read Middlemarch and despise Simon Cowell
There are a few ethicists who are interested in encouraging right behaviour, rather than simply discussing it. Here is something for them from A.L. Kennedy: ‘As Vonnegut mentioned, Nazi Germany trained a population to be blind to the dignit…
Read MoreGuest Post: JABBING, PLAYING, AND PAYING – HIGH SEASON ON ANTI-VAXXERS
Christopher Chew Monash University In the strange, upside-down world of the Southern Hemisphere, cold and gloomy Winter is quietly slinking away, and raucous Spring in all his glory begins to stir. Ah, Spring! The season of buds and blooms …
Read MoreVote Selling Versus Vote Swapping
Joseph Bowen (@joe_bowen_1) Lets begin with a pair of cases: Pub Swap. Suppose Ann endorses Political Party A and Ben endorses Political Party B. Both would place Party C as their last choice. Ann lives in constituency 1 and Ben lives in co…
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