Written by Christopher Chew Monash University  JOURNALIST: Treasurer, do you accept that housing in Sydney is unaffordable and the only way we’re going to make it affordable is if real house prices in real terms actually fall over the near …

Written By Johanna Ahola-Launonen University of Helsinki In bioethical discussion, it is often debated whether or not some studies espouse genetic determinism. A recent study by Tuomas Aivelo and Anna Uitto[1] give important insight to the …

Written by Constantin Vica Postdoctoral Fellow, Romanian Academy Iasi Branch Research Center in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest This post is not, as one might expect, about that part of ethics which is not concerned about practical …

Written By Paul B. Thompson W.K. Kellogg Professor of Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University This blog is a cross-posting from the OUPblog. Please see the original post here: http://blog.oup.com/2015/06/food-sy…

Someone has just said to me: ‘You’re really boring today’. It is, of course, something I commonly hear. And it was undoubtedly true. But it made me wonder if there was any moral significance to my personal boringness. Shou…

Journal of Practical Ethics. Volume 3, Issue 1. June 2015 Cost Effectiveness Analysis and Fairness F. M. Kamm Journal of Practical Ethics, 3(1): 1-14 Read Online | Download PDF The Elements of Well-Being Brad Hooker Journal of Practical Eth…

Almost every week there’s a headline about our planet’s population explosion.  For instance Indian officials confirmed recently that India is projected to overtake China in just over a decade – to become the most populous country on Earth. …

CARING ROBOTS Written by Darlei Dall’Agnol[1] Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina As we humans find ways of enhancing our physical, intellectual, emotional and other capabilities and, as a result, our lifespan expands, caring for the eld…

Written by Prof. Antonio Diéguez Universidad de Malaga  The public image of science is usually subjected to distortions tending to blur the nuances and to generate monolithic assessments.  The mass media contribute to a large extent to the …

Recently I attended a fascinating Society for Applied Philosophy lecture by Shelly Kagan, entitled ‘What’s Wrong with Speciesism?’. Kagan began the lecture by explaining how, while teaching a course involving some of Peter Singer’s writings…