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The Preforming of the Mall at the End of the World
This chapter presents the story of the mall at the end of the world; a story where a new kind of “sustainability” is achieved and a wealthy subset of...
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New Omnivorism: a Novel Approach to Food and Animal Ethics
New omnivorism is a term coined by Andy Lamey to refer to arguments that – paradoxically – our duties towards animals require us to eat some animal...
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Modern Skeptical Disturbances and their Remedies
Modern philosophers often express regret about the mental burden that skepticism imposes on them. Hume famously complained that skeptical doubt led...
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Failed human: on national guilt and its religious roots
This commentary considers the idea of collective responsibility in conjunction with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on the works of Karl...
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Trophy Hunting Now
In this final chapter, we present the challenges that recent years and especially 2020–21 have presented in the context of trophy hunting. In Chapter...
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Trophy Hunting and Conservation
This chapter investigates conservation claims and issues as they pertain to hunting. After a description of the major regulations governing trophy...
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Artificial Intelligence and Health Disparities: Policy, Regulation, and Implications
Industries and governments struggleDisparities to define artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence and regulate it to ensure that it is...
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The Limits and Dangers of Risk-Benefit Analysis: From the Refugee Crisis to the Coronavirus Pandemic
In this chapter, Kelly Oliver argues that while risk-benefit analysis may be necessary in a crisis situation such as the Covid-19 pandemic, that does...
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The Case of the Muselmänner: A Study in the Loss and Reclamation of Dignity
Victims of genocidal violence like the Muselmänner test our notions of dignity. In practice it is not altogether clear if respect of dignity is...
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Imagination and remembrance: what role should historical epidemiology play in a world bewitched by mathematical modelling of COVID-19 and other epidemics?
Although every emerging infectious disease occurs in a unique context, the behaviour of previous pandemics offers an insight into the medium- and...
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Seneca on Anger, Revenge, and Punishment
In this paper, I first reconstruct Seneca’s cognitivist account of anger, explaining why, according to the stoics, anger is never rational. Once we...
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Key ethical issues encountered during COVID-19 research: a thematic analysis of perspectives from South African research ethics committees
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic presents significant challenges to research ethics committees (RECs) in balancing urgency of review of COVID-19...
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The Moral Universe
We cannot embrace goodness unless it is there to be found and embraced. Today, philosophers and scientists alike shy away from moral laws. And yet,...
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The Risks of Evolutionary Explanation
Evolutionary explanations of behavior are special in that they involve both proximate and ultimate components. Proximately, evolutionary accounts...
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On the mitigation of inductive risk
The last couple of decades have witnessed a renewed interest in the notion of inductive risk among philosophers of science. However, while it is...
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Horrendous Evil and the Loving God: a Reply to Joshua Thurow
Marilyn McCord Adams has defended theodicy by appeal to the idea of post-mortem compensation for the victims of horrendous evil. I have argued that...
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Philosophy of Epidemiology
The philosophy of epidemiology is a recent addition to the philosophy of science. Its focus is on metaphysical and epistemic problems concerning the...
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Fear, freedom and political culture during COVID-19
Australia’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely perceived to have been a successful one, based on the relatively few number of lives...
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Courage in the Early Middle Ages and Islam
In this chapter, the dramatic scene of agony in the garden of Gethsemane is revised to reflect a wide range of stances on courage advanced in the...