Inverse p-zombies: the other direction in the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Richard A. Cash, Who Saved Millions From Dehydration, Dies at 83
The Dark Triad of personality and folk intuitions about free will and moral responsibility
The influence of philosophical training on the evaluation of philosophical cases: a controlled longitudinal study
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between economic inequality and prosocial behavior
The Vanishing Family: They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a cruel genetic mutation—which means disappearing into dementia in middle age. This is the story of what it’s like to live with those odds
Let’s Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to Improve Moral Reasoning
Harm Hypervigilance in Public Reactions to Scientific Evidence
Schrödinger’s Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
Business-Size Bias in Moral Concern: People are More Dishonest Against Big than Small Organizations
Worth the Risk? Greater Acceptance of Instrumental Harm Befalling Men than Women
Monetizing the externalities of animal agriculture: insights from an inclusive welfare function
Woman who can smell Parkinson’s helps scientists develop new test for condition—Joy Milne, 72, who lives in Scotland has been dubbed ‘the woman who can smell Parkinson’s
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for the presence and absence of health problems
Permitting Immoral Behavior: A Generalized Compensation Belief Hypothesis
Losing Sight of Piecemeal Progress: People Lump and Dismiss Improvement Efforts That Fall Short of Categorical Change—Despite Improving
Testing heritability of moral foundations: Common pathway models support strong heritability for the five moral foundations
A Systematic Review of Human Challenge Trials, Designs, and Safety
Perturbation of Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Makes Power Holders Less Resistant to Tempting Bribes
The Human Black-Box: The Illusion of Understanding Human Better Than Algorithmic Decision-Making
Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education
Replication crisis and placebo studies: rebooting the bioethical debate
Children are unsuspecting meat eaters: An opportunity to address climate change
The search for predictable moral partners: Predictability and moral (character) preferences
Beauty Goes Down to the Core: Attractiveness Biases Moral Character Attributions
Why Empathy Is Not a Reliable Source of Information in Moral Decision Making
Animal Minds, Social Change, and the Future of Fisheries Science
If giving money to the Red Cross increases well-being, does taking money from the Red Cross increase ill-being?—Evidence from three experiments
Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations
Moral disciplining: the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of puritanical morality
John Locke as a Reader of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A New Manuscript
An experimental test of fundraising appeals targeting donor and recipient benefits
Broad cross-national public support for accelerated COVID-19 vaccine trial designs
Biotechnology Research Viewed With Caution Globally, but Most Support Gene Editing for Babies To Treat Disease: Majorities across global publics accept evolution; religion factors prominently in belief
Millions of animals may be missing from scientific studies
Animal welfare: antispeciesism, veganism and a ‘life worth living’
Publication rate in preclinical research: a plea for preregistration
Evaluating Use Cases for Human Challenge Trials in Accelerating SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development
Thrones Wreathed in Shadow: Tacitus and the Psychology of Authoritarianism
Aversion towards simple broken patterns predicts moral judgment
An Attempt at Explaining, Blaming, and Being Very Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron
Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]
‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the US Coronavirus Response: A series of missed chances by the federal government to ensure more widespread testing came during the early days of the outbreak, when containment would have been easier
Cognitive Enhancement and Network Effects: how Individual Prosperity Depends on Group Traits
The Phantom’s Pain—A Metal Gear Solid V Narrative Analysis
The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia
Learning Norms from Stories: A Prior for Value Aligned Agents
Analysis of official deceased organ donation data casts doubt on the credibility of China’s organ transplant reform
A Defense of Free-Roaming Cats from a Hedonist Account of Feline Well-being
The New Epidemic—My Experience of Losing a Friend to Heroin
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage II: Just How Totalitarian is Modern China?
Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match—Results and lessons learned from our first $25K in matching
Gitcoin Grants: CLR Matching—Matching contributions with up to $25,000 in funding, in ETH
Reflections on China’s Stalinist Heritage I: A Tyrant’s Toolkit
Subsidizing PGD: The Moral Case for Funding Genetic Selection
Frequently overlooked realistic moral bioenhancement interventions
Asymmetrical genetic attributions for prosocial versus antisocial behavior
Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle
The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction
Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Eye for an Eye
Islam and Economic Performance: Historical and Contemporary Links
Relating pattern deviancy aversion to stigma and prejudice
We Don’t Want to Know What Will Kill Us: Years of data on genetic testing reveal that when given the option, most people want less information, not more
Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures
Switching Away from Utilitarianism: The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment
The Unilateralist’s Curse and the Case for a Principle of Conformity
Discontinuation and Nonpublication of Randomized Clinical Trials Conducted in Children
Legal Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf
The most predictable disaster in the history of the human race: This is what Bill Gates is afraid of
Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?
Use of Placebo Controls in the Evaluation of Surgery: Systematic Review
Are You Morally Modified?: The Moral Effects of Widely Used Pharmaceuticals
The moral consequences of economic growth: An empirical investigation
The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States
The Fallacy of Human Freedom; Review [John Gray, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), 288 Pp]
Outing the It that Thinks: The Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
The Disadvantage of a Good Reputation: Disney as a Target for Social Problems Claims
Buddhist Animal Release Practices: Historic, Environmental, Public Health And Economic Concerns
Anesthetizing the Public Conscience: Lethal Injection and Animal Euthanasia
Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
Consider the Lobster: For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more
The Psychologist Who Empathized with Rats: James Tiptree Junior as Alice B. Sheldon, PhD
Thinking the unthinkable: sacred values and taboo cognitions
Richard Posner, The Bench Burner: How Did a Judge With Such Subversive Ideas Become a Leading Influence on American Legal Opinion?
Genetic Manipulation in Humans as a Matter of Rawlsian Justice
Cornucopia: The Pace of Economic Growth in the 20th Century
Parachuting for charity: is it worth the money? A 5-year audit of parachute injuries in Tayside and the cost to the NHS
Who Is Arguing About the Cat? Moral Action and Enlightenment According to Dōgen
Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds
Superhumanism: According to Hans Moravec § On the Inevitability & Desirability of Human Extinction
The irrelevance of the medical model of mental illness to law and ethics
Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation
A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder
Leaving the Bomb Project: A nuclear physicist responsible for helping design the atomic bomb tells for the first time why he decided to leave Los Alamos in 1944
Effectiveness of measures to prevent unintentional deaths of infants and children from suffocation and strangulation
Behavior Of Young Children Under Conditions Simulating Entrapment In Refrigerators
Some Unattractive Meta-Ethical Positions, Free to a Good Home
The Moral Question That Stanford Asks Its Bioengineering Students
After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can Be Enough: In a Five-Year Follow-Up, Nearly Two-Thirds of Patients Never Needed Surgery
Some Key Numbers That Every Effective Altruist Should Know
The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) Represents More Than 85% of the Assisted Reproduction Industry. SART Requires That Its Members Work Only With Agencies That Limit Compensation to Egg-Donors to around $5,000 or a Maximum of $10,000 (figures Decided upon by the Ethics Committee of an Affiliated Organization, The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)). In Other Words, ASRM-SART Acts As a Buyer's Cartel.
Hacking the Holocaust. Remembering the Data Pirates, Forgers
Rob Wiblin Interviews Tyler on Stubborn Attachments (BONUS)
Front Matter Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance
Philosophical Disquisitions: The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias
The Reaction to the Harper’s Letter on Cancel Culture Proves Why It Was Necessary: I Was One of the 153 Signers and Am a Veteran of the Twitter Wars. But Even I Was Taken Aback by the Swift, Virulent Response.
Volunteers: Nonprofits Really Want Their Money, Not Their Bodies
6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling
After 92 Years, Millionaire Miser’s Heirs Finally Split $100M
A Walking Time Bomb? The Trouble With Ira Glass’s Dog, Piney
‘Stubborn Attachments’: Full Text – Stubborn Attachments – Medium
The Government Has Fiercely Decried a Shenzhen Scientist's Gene Editing, in Contrast to Its Push past Ethical Barriers in AI
Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate: Science Could Allow Parents to Select for Taller, Smarter Kids; It’s Just Another Way of Preventing Disease
Machiavelli V: Why We Keep Asking ‘Was Machiavelli an Atheist?’
Mike Darwin on Animal Research, Moral Cowardice, and Reasoning in an Uncaring Universe
China’s Bid to Be a DNA Superpower: First China Conquered DNA Sequencing. Now It Wants to Dominate Precision Medicine Too
She Told the Family of a Severely Disabled Man That She Could Help Him to Communicate With the outside World. The Relationship That Followed Would Lead to a Criminal Trial.
Should Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?
We Laughed at the Republican Busybody Who Couldn't Joke, Declared War on Dirty Paintings, and Peered through Your Bedroom Window. Now That Person Has Switched Sides, and Nobody's Laughing
The Colossal Government Failure That Obstructed a Potentially Major Medical Breakthrough
A Doctor and Medical Ethicist Argues Life After 75 Is Not worth Living
Barbra Streisand Is Not Alone. At a South Korean Laboratory, an Once-Disgraced Doctor Is Replicating Hundreds of Deceased Pets for the Rich and Famous. It's Made for More Than a Few Questions of Bioethics.
Plant-Based Meat like Beyond and Impossible Burgers Get Their Beefy Taste from Flavorists
Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?
Discounts, Guarantees and the Search for ‘Good’ Genes: The Booming Fertility Business
A New Age of Genetic Screening Is Coming—And We Don’t Have Any Rules for It: New ‘Polygenic’ Screening Techniques Open a Pandora’s Box of Ethical Issues
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