What ethics is and why moral argument is possible, the case for and against moral relativism, utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill), Kant's ethics of duty, Aristotle's virtue ethics…
In 1951 a hospital kept a few cells from a dying woman's tumor without asking her. Their descendants are still growing in laboratories around the world, and they helped build th…
In 1812 the British Parliament made breaking a textile machine a crime punishable by death. The workers it targeted were not against machines as such; they were angry about who …
An introduction to environmental ethics, the branch of philosophy that asks what we owe to the natural world. This course covers the basic questions of moral status and value, t…