According to the ethical theory of utilitarianism, refusing to push the strange man is unethical. In both scenarios, the ethical action is to sacrifice one to save five.
The possibility that non-life became life over a million or so years, rather than hundreds of millions of years, is astonishing.
The perception, understandably, follows that the right is in favor of free expression, and the left has become wholly illiberal.
At this point, we must really pause to ask ourselves how feminist theory is leaking into popular culture, and the reason is that it’s activism-driven scholarship.
Serwer's exit poll data misled on Trump voters. Reliable studies show working-class whites backed him, elites didn't.
Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker “Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases…” Read more at Amazon. The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt “The generation now coming of age has been taught three
Femen founder Inna Shevchenko argues that the Western taboo on criticising religion — especially Islam — has directly enabled atrocities that frank discussion might have prevented.
Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.
What is direct democracy? It is a process of political decision-making that puts power directly in the hands of the populace.
Blockchain technology has the power to render the dealings of businesses and nation states into open books, purged of secrecy and the privacy of elite cabals.
Technologies arising out of our improved understanding may be developed to enhance IQ and considers some of the ethical questions that gives rise to.
Is it possible to see if someone is high in g by their brain activity on a PET scan or fMRI scan – and if so, what does it look like?
The key term Stendhal introduces, which is central to his vision of romance, is (to use the Americanized spelling) “crystallization”
Why would people take academics’ more ridiculous pronouncements so seriously, or seriously at all in the case of communication studies departments?
Is there a dark side to artificial intelligence? Many people, including famous science and technology leaders, assert that advancements in AI should be approached with extreme caution.