ethics

Below is the audio recording of Lisa Tessman’s presidential address, “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters Doesn’t Really Matter,” given at the 2024 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Holding Ourselves Responsible: When What Rightly Matters […] The post 2024 Eastern…

This post expands on my review of "Carrie Friese's A Mouse in a Cage [NYU Press, 2025]", published in the LSE Review of Books, and reframes the discussion within peer-reviewed research on animal ethics, sociology of science and critical animal studies.

Which areas of specialization have been correlated with higher placement into “permanent” (typically tenure-track or tenured) positions over the past few years? “The broad finding is that those in Value Theory and History & Traditions (n=1125) have a higher proportion in permanent academic placement… than those in LEMM or Science, Logic, & Math (n=864),” according to Carolyn Dicey Jennings (UC Me…

_Https://Academia.Edu/Resource/Work/175205422_. 2026This essay investigates the foundational theological and psychological friction between Søren Kierkegaard and Knud Ejler Løgstrup, focusing specifically on how their diverging concepts of human agency address disparate conditions of life and states of the individual. By examining Kierkegaard’s interiorized categories of individual guilt, anxiety…

The Duke Initiative for Science & Society has named Janet Malek, Ph.D., and Marc Groman, J.D., as co-leads of the Master of Arts... The post Duke Names Janet Malek and Marc Groman to Lead Applied Ethics & Policy Graduate Program appeared first on Duke University Science & Society .

IntroductionGenerative artificial intelligence has become increasingly integrated into higher education; however, its adoption raises challenges related to authorship, transparency, content verification, privacy, and student responsibility. The objective of this study was to identify the factors associated with and structurally contributing to the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence…

Nature Neuroscience, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41593-026-02447-1 Implanted brain–computer interfaces hold great promise for restoring communication and other functions and for revealing new aspects of human brain physiology. Yet as the number of implantations in humans expands, ethical clarity must keep pace with technical ambition. We propose that this should involve dist…

A provocative new paper suggests consciousness may not be unique to Earth and could arise in alien life forms far stranger than we can imagine. A new philosophical paper argues that consciousness may not be exclusive to life as we know it. According to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of [...]

This review examines Matthieu Queloz's The Ethics of Conceptualization: Tailoring Thought and Language to Need (Oxford University Press, 2025), which develops a needs-based framework for appraising the authority of concepts. The review traces the book's central distinction between reasons in concept use and reasons for concept use, its critique of "tidy-mindedness" as an unconditional theoretical…