September 19, 2015
What’s with Income Inequality?
Many have been surprised by the rapid surge of the issue of income inequality. Thomas Piketty’s book spawned academic and popular interest in the topic. The idea that the main…
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September 16, 2015
Special Issue of The Critique on Vaccines, Belief, and Autonomy
Readers of this ‘blog might be interested in the most recent issue of the online philosophy magazine The Critique, on “Vaccines. Belief, and Autonomy”, as it features articles by both…
September 15, 2015
Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop: Call for Papers
GISME Junior Faculty Manuscript Workshop
September 14, 2015
CFP: Policing and Prisons (November 1st Deadline)
Policing and Prisons: Ethical and Political Questions about Law Enforcement and Incarceration The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio, March…
September 05, 2015
Samaritanism and Duties
Singer’s famous example is taken to establish that some acts of Samaritanism are morally required. He writes, “if it is in our power to prevent something very bad from happening,…
August 28, 2015
We’re Obligated to Save Many Drowning Children: In Defense of Singer
Jason wrote a nice post the other day on Peter Singer’s famous drowning child thought experiment. In short, Jason argues that showing that we’d be obligated to save one drowning…