Featured Benjamin Rossi | 26 Jan 2023 Is Academic Philosophy Pointless? How might we best explain the purpose of the discipline?
Featured Luke Roelofs | 2 Dec 2022 Potential Lives Can Matter, but Only Through Actual Lives (Pt. II) What are the implications of preferring one source of potential life over another?
Potential Lives Can Matter, but Only Through Actual Lives Where does a potential child's moral weight come from? 1 Dec 2022 | Luke Roelofs
A Post-Christian America and the Foundations of Morality The declining influence of the church need not spell doom for ethics. 30 Sep 2022 | Evan Arnet
Victim-blaming and Guilty Victims What might make a victim worthy of blame? 23 Sep 2022 | D'Arcy Blaxell
When Do We Begin to Exist? Mind or body? What is it exactly that makes us who we are? 13 Sep 2022 | Dustin Crummett
Is It Always Wrong to Blame the Victim? Under what conditions might someone deserve blame for inciting violence (even when they're the target)? 1 Sep 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
She-Hulk: Superhero? If responsibility tracks capability, then what makes a superhero so super? 26 Aug 2022 | James M. Okapal
Living in the Hinge of History How can we guarantee that the decisions we make today pave the way toward a brighter future tomorrow? 12 Aug 2022 | Dustin Crummett
Insurance, Natural Disasters, and the Relevance of Luck How do we determine those who deserve more than a mere helping hand? 21 Jul 2022 | Daniel Burkett
Bill Gates and the Ethics of Personal Pledges How do we determine which of our selves' wishes we should honor? 18 Jul 2022 | Giles Howdle
When Is Someone Responsible for Not Acting? Can we really be held accountable for what we don't know? 14 Jul 2022 | T. Parker Haratine
Rethinking “Rethinking the Moral Status Debate” Can moral standing really be reduced to a weighing of the consequences? 2 Jun 2022 | Dustin Crummett
Rethinking the Moral Status Debate On what grounds should we deem an entity worthy of personhood and all the moral and legal considerations that come with it? 2 Jun 2022 | Benjamin Rossi
What Does It Take to Make an Apology? What exactly are others owed when we find ourselves in the wrong and intend to make amends? 23 Feb 2022 | T. Parker Haratine
What If You Aren’t Sure What’s Moral? How do we settle on a course of action when we aren't convinced by any particular ethical framework? 8 Feb 2022 | Giles Howdle
The Curious Case of Evie Toombes: Alternative Realities and Non-Identity How might we assess the harm that may or may not have occurred if things had gone differently? 25 Jan 2022 | Dustin Crummett
The Ethics of “Let’s Go, Brandon” How exactly does speaking in coded language transform our indecent utterances? 11 Jan 2022 | A.G. Holdier
Losing Ourselves in Others "I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it." 22 Dec 2021 | Rachel Robison-Greene
Can Santa Know Who’s Naughty or Nice? The particulars regarding moral knowledge put Santa's capacity for accurate assessment of others' moral character in grave doubt. 20 Dec 2021 | Benjamin Rossi
Wrapping Christmas Presents: Some Lessons from Ancient Philosophy Plato and Aristotle seem to be at odds when it comes to explaining our attraction to pretty things. 16 Dec 2021 | Marshall Bierson
Faramir’s Insight In failing to appreciate the fullness of others' moral autonomy we do them a disservice. 7 Dec 2021 | Marshall Bierson