Search Results for: young philosopher
Fascism, Book Banning, and Non-Violent Direct Action
What is the appropriate response to increasing intolerance?
Book Bans, the First Amendment, and Political Liberalism
How do we tell which books facilitate or frustrate childhood education?
Gorr the God-Butcher and the Problem of Evil
Is there any reconciling needless suffering with the existence of a god?
Bill Gates and the Ethics of Personal Pledges
How do we determine which of our selves’ wishes we should honor?
Digital Degrees and Depersonalization
Online learning has been a useful tool for solving some problems but its also been responsible for exacerbating others.
Celebrity, Wealth, and Meaning in Life
The assumptions we make regarding the rich and famous could stand further investigation.
Nuclear War and Scope Neglect
Cognitive biases make it easy to lose sight of our goal in risk assessment.
Considered Position: Thinking Through Sanctions – Our Own Obligations
What responsibilities might individuals have to support these punitive economic measures?
When Should You Boycott?
What considerations should inform one’s withdrawal of economic support?
Seen and Not Heard: Jana Mohr Lone
Before Jana Mohr Lone was a philosopher, she was a lawyer who worked with children. Now she uses philosophy to empower young people.
On Anxiety and Activism
How do we protect our political resolve from oversaturation of the attention economy?
What Does a Post-Literate World Look Like?
The tools we use to interpret the world and the way we communicate with others are evolving.
Niti, Nyaya, and Kyle Rittenhouse: One Kind of Justice Is in the Details, but the Other Isn’t
The multiple uses to which ‘justice’ can be put has us talking past one another.
In Defense of Eating Dogs
Are there any moral considerations separating different kinds of meat? Cultural attitudes tell us one thing, but what might consistency demand?
COVID Vaccines and Primary Care
Are doctors violating their professional code in choosing who they will or will not treat, or, as always, simply minimizing their patients’ risk and possible harm?
Vainglories Are Like Ogres — Part III: The Layer Problem
Is there any philanthropic act wholly divorced from ego which might be truly selfless?
Intuitions and the Duty to Aid
What do our intuitions actually tell us? What moral weight should we grant them?
Philosophical Insights from Great Literature
What formative moral lessons hide in plain sight within the pages of the books that charted our childhood?
Uighur Genocide and the Wrong of Population Control
Genocide can take any number of forms, but how do we capture the unique moral harm perpetrated by programs targeting children?
Complications in Our Picture of Looting
While the vast majority of protests have been peaceful, those that aren’t challenge us in ways that require further investigation.
The Ethics of Triage
What principles can we lean on when making weighing need against prognosis? How should uncertainty and scarcity of resources change our decision-making?
Institutions’ Right to Block: ICAO vs. Taiwan
What might justify an organization or government’s wielding of exclusionary power? What does it mean to be removed from the conversation?