Tag: "ethics"

On Altruistic Living Kidney Donation

Kidney specialist Mahendra Govani recommends a particular variety of evolved ethical behaviour.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Bioethics]

Is Ethics a Science?

Our philosophical science correspondent Massimo Pigliucci asks.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Science]

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Dear Socrates]

Baroness Mary Warnock

Baroness Mary Warnock is one of Britain’s leading moral philosophers and has also chaired several official commissions of enquiry, including the Committee on Human Fertility and Embryology in the 1980s. She’s currently writing a book in response to Lord Joffe’s Bill, ‘Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill’. Rick Lewis interviewed her at the House of Lords.
[Issue 55: May/June 2006: Interview]

Ethics in Government

Richard Baron tries to be good in government.
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Articles]

Models of Moral Activity

Alexander Razin considers why people act morally (when they do).
[Issue 54: February/March 2006: Philosophy in Russia]

A Way of Thinking About Ethics

Philip Badger on a classroom philosophy experiment and the ideas it provoked.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Learning & Teaching]

On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

Petter Naessan examines Harry Frankfurt’s famous little book On Bullshit.
[Issue 53: November/December 2005: Books]

The Bush Disjunction

Paul Keeling on speech acts louder than words.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Articles]

Empathy & Imagination

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Editorial]

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