Evolution

  • Read more: Special issue in the Journal of Philosophy & Technology on evolution, genetic engineering, and human enhancement
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    Special issue in the Journal of Philosophy & Technology on evolution, genetic engineering, and human enhancement

    By Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo A special issue published this month by the Journal of Philosophy & Technology features a collection of articles discussing evolution, genetic engineering, and human enhancement. Recent years have seen a rapidly expanding variety of approaches to exploring the normativity of human enhancement, by philosophers, bioethicists, physicians, and biologists. The articles in…

  • Read more: Upcoming Discussion: “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason”
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    Upcoming Discussion: “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason”

    Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer have an interesting new article in the most recent issue of Ethics on “The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason.” Abstract: Evolutionary accounts of the origins of human morality may lead us to doubt the truth of our moral judgments. Sidgwick tried to vindicate ethics from this kind of…