An ethicist who studies disagreement and civility assumed she could handle a neighborly dispute – until the neighbor refused to even interact with her.
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It’s a perfect quick moral apocalypse for a doomscrolling public.
The ‘moral foreign language effect’ makes you more rational, and less emotional.
Aid workers consistently face a host of moral challenges and often have to make difficult choices. Organizations need to be aware of the mental impact on their staff and provide support.
Water companies are presenting people with an ethical dilemma.
Video game ‘amoralists’ argue killing in gaming isn’t harmful since no living being is actually hurt. But when it comes to hurting virtual animals, we disagree.
The US military can exempt from service those who are religiously or morally opposed to violence. But conscientious objector status won’t help soldiers who disagree with specific lawful orders.
Can we really expect vehicles to make the moral decisions we can’t?
Holding authors responsible functions as part of academic quality control – without it we cannot hold authors accountable for shoddy research or the moral consequences of their publications.
A new study provides fascinating data on how people prioritise who to save in hypothetical driverless car crashes. But it takes more than just numbers to really create ethical machines.
Ethical decisions deliver less emotional impact when presented in a second language, study finds.
Although they think it’s ‘more moral,’ most people would not buy a driverless car programmed to make choices for the greater good.
The trolley dilemma is a staple of philosophy because it probes our intuitions about whether it’s permissible to kill one person to save many more.
Should we allow innocents to be harmed for the greater good? Eye in the Sky puts a modern spin on a classic philosophical moral dilemma.
There’s no single region in the brain responsible for all moral decision making. But neuroscience research has shown specific brain regions are involved when we’re faced with moral dilemmas.
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Director of the Center for Practical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, University of Mississippi
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Dr of Psychology, Toulouse School of Economics – École d'Économie de Toulouse
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Director, Assuring Autonomy International Programme, University of York
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Reading
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Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Philosophy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics, UNSW
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Professor, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Leeds
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Doctorante en psychologie (Ph.D/D.ps), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Northeastern University
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Past Lecturer in Law, University of Southern California