ethics

My background is in mathematics and physics, so it is relatively easy for me to by glance judging whether something is a legitimate paper or someone’s “personal theories” about mathematics and ...

Religious and atheist thinkers agree: Modern tech fuels anxiety, loneliness, and spiritual degradation. But the solutions require more than reducing screen time.

Following the conquests of Alexander the Great and the sudden collapse of the independent Greek city-states, the Mediterranean world entered the Hellenistic Era (323–31 BCE). Cut loose from the tight-knit political communities of their ancestors, everyday individuals were suddenly cast into a massive, unpredictable global empire. In this climate of profound political displacement and anxiety, the…

My point-of-departure is Steven Luper's "Competing for the Good Life". Luper explicitly argues against competitivism as a theory of goodness, and so a fortiori as a theory of rightness. I ...

Kant’s Categorical Imperative may be a good rule of thumb, but some reinterpretation may be in order.

Todd May, Should We Go Extinct? A Philosophical Dilemma for Our Unbearable Times. Crown, 2024. 176 pages. Humans are the only species that can both cause and contemplate their own extinction. Our enormous technological and philosophical abilities put us in a unique existential situation – one that informs discussions about whether we are wise enough to keep ourselves in existence. Many of the arr…

I asked a question about this topic in general recently but it’s not the same question so bear with me. The cogito’s force seems to come from treating “thinking” as exempt from the doubt applied to ...

JMIR Publications invites submissions to a new section titled "Ethics and Policy in Neurotechnology" in its open access journal JMIR Neurotechnology

Published on June 12, 2026 7:28 AM GMT [AI Use Disclosure: Asked Claude to draft this, then entirely rejected its suggestions] I've read a lot of good moral philosophy linked from the EA Forum, but not much of it ( Joe Carlsmith excepted ) has focused on some of the not-evidently-utilitarian traits and dispositions one could cultivate to become the kind of person that does the most good. I'm disc…

I believe in God and an afterlife, so it may just be that when people (or animals) die in cruel and unfair ways-that an afterlife is kinda like the consolation prize Yet, unfairness still exists even ...

Rolfes, J. D. (2026) When Evidence Cannot Be Heard: Epistemic Injustice and the Institutional Failure of Evidence Uptake. [Preprint]

On fitting an AI with a listening hood. Prologue: This Is Not a Story About the Future When people talk about the risks of AI, one thought experiment comes up again and again: the paperclip maximizer , made famous by the philosopher Nick Bostrom. You give an AI a goal that sounds perfectly harmless— manufacture paperclips as efficiently as possible. Then its intelligence surpasses ours. To secure…

Clooney was never truly mine; he was gift on loan from the universe. He was never mine to keep permanently. That would be against the natural order of things. We are most miserable when we try to circumvent life’s processes and rhythms.

_European Journal of Analytic Philosophy_. forthcomingDavid Chalmers’ two-dimensional argument against physicalism—commonly known as the zombie argument—stands as one of the most extensively debated arguments in contemporary analytic philosophy. One comparatively neglected response to the argument maintains that considerations of conceivability cut both ways: just as the ideal conceivability of p…

Lean, Christopher (2026) Philosophical Approaches to the Biodiversity Concept. [Preprint]

Cat, Jordi (2025) Failure in Practice and Dialectic in Theory: More Value, Context, Relativity and Plurality in Shadow Science. [Preprint]

This tractate restates, in compressed form, the argument of No Self-Authorizing Norms: A Structural Theorem on Moral Judgment (Shahaf 2025). Its whole sense may be put in a sentence: whoever judges has already deferred. What can be proved at all is here proved from a single clause; the rest is logic – and what that clause carries cannot be said within the calculus, but shows itself in its use. Th…

In this manuscript, I argue that in today’s world, there are many problem that fall outside the scope of traditional philosophical inquiry but are nonetheless worthy of philosophical attention or study and possess philosophical value. Therefore, by redefining meta-philosophy, I propose a new theory or method to help humanity understand these problem that cannot be grasped by existing philosophy. …

This paper argues that artificial intelligence may become an influential factor in a cultural movement away from belief in objective morality and toward practical forms of moral non-realism. The claim is not that AI will settle metaethics or demonstrate the falsity of moral realism. Rather, AI is likely to change the public conditions under which moral realism feels plausible, necessary, and soci…

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), a pioneering feminist philosopher, is celebrated for her assertion that “mind has no gender,” a cornerstone of her argument for women’s intellectual and social equality. However, modern neuroscience and empirical research, as cited by Dr. Sinan Ibagüner, challenge this claim, demonstrating that male and female brains exhibit distinct neurological wiring. This arti…