The contemporary animal rights movement owes a great intellectual debt to Peter Singer's pathbreaking book Animal Liberation. In that book, Singer made a break with the dominant but limited Kantian ...

The consequences of our actions are important. They matter. But if the utilitarian is right, then consequences are all that matters. Is this correct? The main principle of utilitarian moral theory, ...

Laboratory assistants have to do all sorts of terrible, embarrassing things, but surely this is among the silliest: Enter a bar in Grenoble, France. Identify people who look moderately drunk. Walk up ...

Would you ride in a self-driving car that has been programmed to sacrifice its passengers to save the lives of others, in the event of a serious accident? New research has found that people generally ...