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Lydia Cacho Ribeiro
I received an e-mail from Amnesty International this morning. Here are the first two paragraphs: Cancún, Mexico hardly seems like the place to find an ardent human rights defender. But that’s… more »
dreaming spires
Paratransit crime
dsobsey wrote 12 hours ago: 4 July 2008 - Toronto. Police report the arrest of a paratransit driver charged with sexual assaulti … more »
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 »
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 »
environmental ethics links
gcegsc wrote 2 weeks ago: The international society for environmental ethics International Association for Environmental Philo … more »
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 »
Call for Contributions:
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Cressida wrote 1 month ago: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO A SPECIAL ISSUE OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHI … more »
This Day In History (of Philosophy Sucks!)
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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 »
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 »
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 »
There is No Santa Claus
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Richard Brown wrote 1 year ago: Philosophers often speak about Santa Claus in the context of discussing the problem of names without … more »
A Short Argument that Utilitarians Ought Not to Promote Atheism
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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 »
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 »
New Classes at LaGuardia
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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 »
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 »
A Random Thought about the Oscars
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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 »
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 »
Re-evaluating Policy as an Atheist #3: Abortion
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carriedthecross wrote 4 months ago: Abortion. Perhaps the most hot-button issue among evangelicals. You don’t have to walk past many … more »
Re-evaluating Policy as an Atheist #2: Torture
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carriedthecross wrote 5 months ago: In the past year in particular, the notion of torture has held an interesting place in American poli … more »
Back in the Swing of Things
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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 »
