Ethics

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Body language

Anthony Esolen | 04 August 2011 |

tags: ethics, Public Discourse, sexual revolution

The body has a language of its own, and the sexual revolution is founded upon a lie.

Is Hollywood a health risk?

Ronan Wright | 17 June 2011 |

tags: ethics, Freedom of speech, Hollywood

Between dude-fests and other crass crowd-pleasers the movie empire is setting us up for an ethical heart attack.

Public figures and public ethics

Carolyn Moynihan | 03 June 2011 |

tags: ethics, IMF, leadership

IMF and FIFA bosses, the Governor of California - do we get the leaders we deserve?

A streetcar named moral confusion

Zac Alstin | 10 May 2011 |

tags: ethics, philosophy

Don't be taken in by a hypothetical problem meant to impress beginners.

People have to come before profits, even in a crisis

Alistair Nicholas | 21 March 2011 |

tags: ethics, Japan, tsunami

The Fukushima Daiichi power plant disaster has become a textbook example of what not to do in an emergency.

Is “Yuck!” a good enough reason?

Zac Alstin | 24 February 2011 |

tags: ethics, Peter Singer, Yuck factor

Do taboos on incest and infanticide have a rational basis?

Same old, same old

Michael Cook | 10 February 2011 |

tags: ethics, Peter Singer, utilitarianism

The ageing rock star of ethics, Peter Singer, is still playing the same taboo-smashing tunes.

Stung! The ethics of entrapment

Carolyn Moynihan | 04 February 2011 |

tags: ethics, Planned Parenthood, pro-life movement

Is it OK to use deceit in the service of a cause you believe in?

Obesity and the ethicist’s diet

Zac Alstin | 04 January 2011 |

tags: ethics, obesity, pleasure, reason

Is the alarming growth in obesity due to a triumph of pleasure over reason?

Wikileaks, wikileakers, and wiki-ethics

Margaret Somerville | 11 December 2010 |

tags: ethics, internet, Wikileaks

Enough of kneejerk reactions. We need to take a long, hard look at the ethics of releasing government secrets.

Breach of trust

Michael Cook | 17 September 2010 |

tags: ethics, Harvard, morality

A case of "academic misconduct" at Harvard has taken the gloss off "the new science of morality".

The abiding significance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Christopher O. Tollefsen | 10 August 2010 |

tags: ethics, sanctity of life, US, warfare

Americans must still wrestle with what it means to take the lives of innocent civilians intentionally.

BP’s creaky ethical machinery

Carolyn Moynihan | 18 June 2010 |

tags: business, disasters, ethics

Management attitudes behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster suggest another problem the company needs to address.

Putting ethics back together

John Haldane | 29 March 2010 |

tags: ethics, philosophy

To understand why moral arguments disintegrate into shouting matches, we need to know our Christian heritage. To see where we go from here, we need philosophy, says one of Britain's leading philosophers.

Ethical pitfalls in academic publishing

Margaret Somerville | 10 September 2009 |

tags: ethics, law, publishing, research

Today's ghost-writer might be simply yesterday's research assistant, argues an ethicist.