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Keith Doubt on School Shooters

Keith Doubt on School Shooters

Jeremy Woolsey on Buddhism and the Dead

Jeremy Woolsey on Buddhism and the Dead

‘Plato is not famous for answering questions but for staking his life on the chance to ask them’

‘Plato is not famous for answering questions but for staking his life on the chance to ask them’

May Upheavals by M. Munro

May Upheavals by M. Munro

Catherine Wilson: Live Unknown

Catherine Wilson: Live Unknown

If we have no logical justification for induction then…oops

If we have no logical justification for induction then…oops

Work It

How can we reconcile virtue ethics and contractarianism?

How can we reconcile virtue ethics and contractarianism?

Truth’s Minimalism

Truth’s Minimalism

Planted

How dare they vote that way?

How dare they vote that way?

Philip Kitcher gets ethical

Philip Kitcher gets ethical

Philip Pettit on Consequentialism

Podcast:

Philip Pettit on Consequentialism

Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick’s Ethics

Podcast:

Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick’s Ethics

“Desprit to pass spring projict”

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Shooting Gallery

Simon Critchely finds “passive nihilism” an extremely tempting world-view

Flying elephants illustrate the difficult ethical issues surrounding zoos

‘It’s a tough question which boils down to this: is doing less harm good enough, morally speaking, when you can always do even less harm?’