From Mark Timmons: I am pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE) that will be held in Tucson, » …Read more
Author: david-shoemaker
I'm a Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Murphy Institute at Tulane University. I specialize in agency and responsibility, personal identity and ethics, and I occasionally dabble in social & political philosophy.
Medical advances have provided the possibility to screen for a variety of conditions during pregnancy. This can offer parents the opportunity to prepare to raise a child with those conditions, » …Read more
Broome (2019) discusses several philosophers who have denied that individual people cause harm via emissions and resultant climate change. He calls these philosophers “individual denialists”. » …Read more
Consider the following case, culled from the authors’ lived experiences (with slight modifications). You are in the fortunate position of marrying into a family with the financial means to offset a substantial amount of the cost of an otherwise unaffordable wedding. » …Read more
[Herewith our second post for Applied Ethics April, by Matt King.]
‘Death with Dignity’ statutes, as they’re often called, allow terminally ill patients to bring about their own deaths under a very specific set of conditions. » …Read more
[What follows is a guest post by Anca Gheaus, of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, our first contender for the prestigious Applied Ethics April PEA Soup Award.]
Consider these alternative stories involving two characters, » …Read more
Tomorrow we will begin our series of guest posts for “Applied Ethics April” with a post from Anca Gheaus (Barcelona), on parental choice of future children. » …Read more