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Paratransit crime

dsobsey wrote 12 hours ago: 4 July 2008 - Toronto. Police report the arrest of a paratransit driver charged with sexual assaulti … more »

Tags: ableism, Differential treatment, Disability, Discrimination, Law and public policy, Marginalization and exclusion, mild rants, Public Policy, Sex and the body

Kings County Hospital... and 100s like it

dsobsey wrote 2 days ago: The recently released videotape of a woman being ignored while she died on the floor of Kings County … more »

Tags: Differential treatment, Disability, Discrimination, ethics, health, human relationships, Law and public policy, Marginalization and exclusion, Mental Health

A New Zealand report on the cultural, ethical and spiritual aspects of pre-birth testing by Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council

wolbring wrote 1 week ago: some far reaching recommendations such as Recommendation 9 There is insufficient cultural, ethical a … more »

Tags: ableism, Bioethics, Biotech, Disability and the Law, ethics, Feminism, Gender, Genetics, Human Futures

environmental ethics links

gcegsc wrote 2 weeks ago: The international society for environmental ethics International Association for Environmental Philo … more »

Tags: Research Organizations, ethics, Environment

Not as a Means Only

Richard Brown wrote 3 weeks ago: In an earlier post I argued that the categorical imperative entails that we are not allowed to use s … more »

Tags: Metaethics

Call for Contributions:1 comment

Cressida wrote 1 month ago: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO A SPECIAL ISSUE OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHI … more »

Tags: Disability, Call for Papers, Peer reviewed papers, Gender, Norms and normalcy, Feminism, Reproductive Technology, Bioethics, Persons

This Day In History (of Philosophy Sucks!)3 comments

Richard Brown wrote 1 month ago: In celebration of my one year in the blogosphere I have decided to start a new (randomly published) … more »

Tags: Mind and Language, Philosophy of Language

Swimming Vegetables? Fish, Pain, and Consciousness

Richard Brown wrote 1 year ago: There has been for some time now a debate between fishing enthusiasts and animal rights activists ov … more »

Tags: Consciousness, Metaethics, Neurophilosophy

The Truth About Santa

Richard Brown wrote 1 year ago: For those of you who are interested, there has been some really interesting discussion of my post Th … more »

Tags: Truth

There is No Santa Claus 14 comments

Richard Brown wrote 1 year ago: Philosophers often speak about Santa Claus in the context of discussing the problem of names without … more »

Tags: Truth

A Short Argument that Utilitarians Ought Not to Promote Atheism13 comments

Richard Brown wrote 1 month ago: It has been commonplace in the history of moral theory to argue that having an obligation and being … more »

Tags: Is there a God?, Metaethics

CFP: Feminist Philosophy and Medical Biotechnologies

Cressida wrote 1 month ago: Call for Papers Special Issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Medical Biotechnologies, … more »

Tags: Biotech, publications, Gender, enhancement, Feminism, Reproductive Technology, Bioethics, Persons, Articles

New Classes at LaGuardia4 comments

Richard Brown wrote 3 months ago: I am lucky enough to come to LaGuardia at a time when they are expanding the philosophy major and we … more »

Tags: MIsc BS, Philosophy of Logic

Is President Bush a torturer?

dynophile wrote 3 months ago: Is US President George W. Bush personally, morally responsible for torture? That would depend on wh … more »

Tags: Current Events, Current Issues, ethics

A Random Thought about the Oscars7 comments

Richard Brown wrote 4 months ago: So, I was watching the Oscars last night and I was struck by the fact that there is a separate prize … more »

Tags: MIsc BS

Ethics Bites (Open University)

Rob Farrow wrote 4 months ago: The Open University has recently begun a series of podcasts on applied ethics, with discussion from … more »

Tags: ethics, Links, Philosophy

Re-evaluating Policy as an Atheist #3: Abortion8 comments

carriedthecross wrote 4 months ago: Abortion. Perhaps the most hot-button issue among evangelicals.  You don’t have to walk past many … more »

Tags: ethics, Politics, Christianity, atheist, Christian, Atheism, ethics, Abortion, Pro-Life

Re-evaluating Policy as an Atheist #2: Torture8 comments

carriedthecross wrote 5 months ago: In the past year in particular, the notion of torture has held an interesting place in American poli … more »

Tags: ethics, Atheism, atheist, Christian, Christianity, ethics, Public Policy, Religion, Terrorism

Back in the Swing of Things6 comments

Richard Brown wrote 6 months ago: So I am back in NYC and settling into the Winter session course I am teaching…I am also master … more »

Tags: Consciousness, MIsc BS


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