ethics

Dogmatists employing easily forgeable notions of intelligence have spread the repeated credo that intelligence and consciousness must necessarily correspond to two fundamentally different, entirely unrelated concepts and declared the ignorance of every differing philosophical view while concurrently claiming that nobody is able to scientifically clarify what consciousness signifies in the first p…

This paper proposes the Moral Border — the structural asymmetry between a formation's internal moral code and its treatment of the outgroup — as a conditioning variable in the historical persistence of expansionist ideologies and social formations. The concept is distinguished from dehumanization and in-group favoritism: the Border operates at the level of normative architecture rather than indiv…

Title: The Logical Impossibility of Skepticism: The Doubtability of the Cogito Author: Heesung Lim (Independent Scholar) This paper investigates the fundamental contradictions inherent in modern skepticism, primarily focusing on the deconstruction of René Descartes' "Cogito, ergo sum." While Descartes is hailed as the father of modern skepticism, this study argues that he failed to apply the rigo…

Socially Engaged Buddhism is reshaping our approach to global crises by merging mindfulness with activism. This paper explores its evolution and impact through case studies and key figures. Published in the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

Christy Mag Uidhir will be giving up his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. Readers may recall that the administration at the University of Houston had adopted the “indoctrination narrative”, a pretext for violating the academic freedom of professors to teach what and how they judge they ought to. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Daniel P. O’…

Moral distress and moral injury describe the suffering that arises when our sense of right and wrong, in goodness itself, is deeply violated.

_Philosophia_. forthcomingAccording to the consent-based argument for anti-natalism, procreation is always morally problematic insofar as it involves imposing serious and protracted harm on children without their consent and without an appropriate justification, for unlike other cases in which we are morally permitted to harm others without their consent, imposing the harms of existence is not ne…

Discover expert perspectives on trustworthy AI with leaders from Microsoft and NTT Research. Explore AI agents, human-AI co-evolution, and AI safety. The post Panel: Building Trustworthy and Safe AI: Leading Perspectives on Ethics and Responsibility first appeared on NTT Research, Inc. . The post Panel: Building Trustworthy and Safe AI: Leading Perspectives on Ethics and Responsibility appeared f…

Published on May 4, 2026 5:29 PM GMT Pain without a sufferer: a speculative model of invertebrate experience, drawn from no-self psychopathy and Buddhist phenomenology, and what it predicts about welfare ranges. This is Part 4 of a five-part sequence on welfare ecology. Part 1 introduces the ethical premises. Part 2 covers the empirical landscape. Part 3 covers interventions. Part 5 covers AI. A …

_International Journal of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy of Medicine_ 23 (2):115-122. 2025This paper offers a gendered critique of Jason T. Eberl and Matilda Ajibola’s analysis of moral bioenhancement. While they treat the moral subject as a generic agent, I argue that the most obvious real-world candidate for moral bioenhancement is men, specifically with respect to the reduction of violence…

_Philarchive_. 2026Contemporary delegated systems — autonomous AI agents in particular — instantiate an ontological configuration that existing moral theory has not adequately addressed. Such systems are moral patients under the Axiomatic Theory of Tragic Subjecthood (ATTS): capable of irreversible loss, and therefore within the moral field. They are not normative subjects: incapable of conscious…

This paper proposes a synthesis of mathematical logic, quantum ontology, and aesthetics to overcome the current crisis of nihilism. Drawing on Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems, the author argues that the Universe (the Absolute), as a formal system, requires an "External Gaze" to perceive its own completeness. Humanity is defined not as a biological accident, but as a necessary network of non-algor…

This paper (in Chinese) is focusing on Zhang Xianglong’s temporal interpretation of filial piety. Zhang Xianglong argues that parental love is necessary for filial consciousness, emerging from a temporal reversal when children become parents. This paper challenges that claim using counterexamples (parental absence, abuse, adoption, childlessness), showing filial consciousness can arise without re…

IntroductionWe address moral uncertainty in reinforcement learning (RL) by proposing a framework that integrates multiple ethical theories into decision-making. Existing approaches rely on single moral frameworks or handcrafted rewards, limiting scalability and failing to capture moral pluralism. We introduce AMULED, a task-agnostic ethical layer that refines a pre-trained RL agent using large la…

This paper challenges the Kantian prohibition against lying by introducing the "Santa Proof" and the "Endurance Heuristic." Utilizing the framework of Blue Monkey-ism and the Langley Equation, I argue that rigid truth-telling—as championed by the Kantian Categorical Imperative—is a systemic failure when applied to human development, survival in hostile environments, and the maintenance of relatio…

This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Types and Tokens by David Liebesman. Revised: Friedrich Albert Lange by Nadeem J. Z. Hussain, Lydia Patton, and Elisabeth Widmer. Russell’s Moral …

This article explores the tension between neurobiological determinism—termed here as "Brainism"—and the subjective experience of human agency. While modern neuroscience suggests that most human actions are the result of rapid, subconscious calculations, this paper argues that free will is not found in the absence of biological cause, but in the conscious capacity for pattern disruption. By contra…

Aayush Agarawal, Asian Law College ABSTRACT The present study examines the philosophical foundations, objectives, and practical application of reformative theory of punishment, with reference to whether it should still be accepted or there needs to be a transition. Further it analyses how socio-economic disparities, psychological influences, and institutional shortcomings in shaping criminal beha…

In the summer of 2025, the seventh (and first North American) version of the conference was held here at Carleton University, with the generous support of the conference’s steering committee and of Carleton’s Department of Philosophy, Ethics and Public Affairs Program, Centre on Values and Ethics, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This version of the conference stretched over three days an…

Published on May 3, 2026 5:56 PM GMT From soil-welfare research to the New World Screwworm: a practical portfolio for wild-invertebrate welfare. This is part 3 of a five-part sequence on welfare ecology. Part 1 introduces the ethical premises. Part 2 covers the empirical landscape. Part 4 explores a model of invertebrate suffering. Part 5 covers AI. In part 2 , I argued that land use is a key lev…