Moral principles are universal dos and don’ts, best understood as constraints on what you do. Of all the things you could do, moral principles urge particular actions, a constrained set of acceptable ...

This post is in response to How Moral Principles Make Us Dumb By Jeremy E. Sherman Ph.D. Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and ...

I spent the summer of 2011 as an undergraduate researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, in Colorado. My job was to collect burying beetles—necrophagous critters with wing cases the ...

Amid controversy about generative AI programs giving wrong, biased, or potentially dangerous responses to queries, Anthropic reveals how it is training ChatGPT rival Claude to give safe, helpful ...

In 2015, Stanford graduate students Carl-Frederik Arndt and Peter Jonsson (both from Sweden) found Chanel Miller being sexually assaulted while unconscious. As soon as they got a sense that something ...

Principle is a powerful weapon in life. In World War II my twin brother was stationed in the South Pacific. The Army gave him R&R in Sidney, Australia, and as he was walking the board sidewalk he came ...

The impulse to wish harm on others may come naturally, but that doesn’t make it right. By Sasha Mudd Dr. Mudd is an assistant professor of philosophy. The other day, my 7-year-old, having gotten wind ...

Since his inauguration, as of the date of this writing, President Donald Trump has signed approximately 60 executive orders. For some context, that is the most in a president’s first 100 days in over ...