Ethics

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Excessive praise can make the wealthy and powerful act badly, but blame puts them on notice and reinforces good behaviour

Philosopher Peter Singer is being celebrated at Western University this week. His polarizing views have put him at the forefront of debates over such ...

India’s founding values are threatened by sinister new forms of oppression | Madhav Khosla | Opinion | The Guardian

Inequality in earnings is getting worse and social mobility is frozen, an OECD report says.

The bride and groom were having their photo taken when they saw a young boy struggling to swim in a lake.

Do we have an obligation to alleviate suffering? Should we give priority to problems in our own backyard, or does our moral obligation extend globally?

Imagine if governments and institutions took their policy directives straight from George Orwell’s 1984 or Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal.” We might veer distressingly close to many a literary dystopia in these times, with duckspeak taking over all the discourse.

Neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland explains her theory of how we evolved a conscience.

Ethics of care challenges traditional moral theories that downplay values usually associated with ‘feminine’ roles such as caregiving.

Matt Beard, co-author of a new report from The Ethics Centre, demands more from the technology we use every day. Find out his set of ethical principles.

The Media Ethics Initiative at the University of Texas, Austin “exists to promote and publicize research on the ethical choices involved in media use.” One of the ways it has done this is by creating a large, varied and free online collection of ethics case studies. The initiative’s founder and director, Scott R. Stroud, says “I think many of those teaching philosophy and ethics classes could find a use for these interesting case studies.” The case studies in the collection are not limited…

Autonomy is the idea every person is in control of their own thoughts and actions and can be motivated by ‘internal’ forces like choice and reflection rather than ‘external’ forces. Ethically, autonomy aims to protect individual choice, rights and freedoms against the control of organisations, the state or other people. Basically, it lets us be our own rulers. The importance of autonomy rose to prominence during The Enlightenment, when thinkers like Immanuel Kant started to see it as the…

From Marx to animal rights to effective altruism, the scope of philosopher Peter Singer’s work is vast

The Senate’s passing of the Orwellian Welfare "Reform" Bill will, in its first year, add to homelessness by cutting off payments to more than 80,000 people.

Footage of law student burning a note while dressed in a white bow-tie and tails went viral