January 6, 2015 by

Events

Teaching Ethics Training Day (16th June) A special day designed for teachers struggling to deliver good grades in ethics . Authors…

Read More
December 23, 2014 by

Philosophical New Year’s Resolutions

Here are some New Year resolutions written from different philosophical perspectives. If you have your own version, then please add it…

Read More
December 19, 2014 by

Article: Strengths of the Ontological Argument

In Defence of Ontological Arguments The ontological argument has been attacked through history (most recently by Richard Dawkins in The God…

Read More
December 2, 2014 by

Article: Bentham and Singer

Bentham and Singer Emilie Dardene University of Reims In this paper I would like to compare two forms of utilitarianism: the…

Read More
November 21, 2014 by

Three Reasons to think about Natural Law

I confess I used to think Natural Law theory was a lot of nonsense. But then I’m not sure I had…

Read More
October 28, 2014 by

CASE STUDY Nicholas Winton and the virtues

In late 1938, a British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton used his holiday to take a trip to Prague after a friend…

Read More
October 28, 2014 by

The Ethics of Epidemics

Periodically in human history we experience terrifying epidemics – the Black Death of the fourteenth century killed around 75 million people…

Read More
October 23, 2014 by

Extract 11: The Tragedy of the Commons Garrett Hardin

Tragedy of Freedom in a Commons Garrett Hardin © Science 1968 Vol 13 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full The rebuttal to the invisible hand in population…

Read More
October 23, 2014 by

Extract 10: Evolutionary Ethics John Baird Callicott

The evolutionary origin of ethics  John Baird Callicott (in Jamieson ed A Companion to Environmental Philosophy pages 206-7) source: http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Environmental_Philosophy_Sp_09/Callicott_The_Land_Ethic.pdf The…

Read More
October 17, 2014 by

Extract 9: A reconciliation between Anthropocentric & Non-anthropocentric Theories James Sterba

http://ocw.capilanou.ca/philosophy/phil-208-environmental-ethics/non-anthropocentric.htm Sterba attempts a kind of reconciliation between anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric environmental ethics. His main point is that the most plausible…

Read More

Check out our great books in the Shop