Erik Parens

Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York, and wrote Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking

2 Posts

Utilitarianism’s Missing Dimensions

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.

Erik Parens

3 Jan 2018 · 11 min read

Giving Genes Their Due, But Not More

To go from noticing that genetic differences were making a difference to knowing which genetic differences were making a difference, geneticists had to move from the classical twin methods to the modern “molecular” methods.

Erik Parens

21 May 2016 · 16 min read