Questions of character
I used to play five-a-side football with Keir Starmer. Although this might sound like a pathetic attempt to show that[…]
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Tag: Ethics
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide (Review)
Mr Chopra interprets everything though the lens of anxiety and as a result either magnifies its true significance or sees it where it is not. To invert and adapt an old proverb, to an anxious nail, everything looks like a hammer. (Review for the Wall Street Journal)
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Review: The Price of Life
Attaching a price to a human life is the height of poor taste. It obscures the distinction between two very different kinds of value – the monetary and the existential. However, there are situations in which one can, should or even must set aside any thought of the sanctity of human life and make cold, hard calculations.
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The ethics of cultivated meat
I contributed this chapter to the book Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future: Hope for Animals, Food Security and the Environment, edited by Philip Lymbery and Michel Vandenbosch. Despite the book's title, my chapter is quite sceptical. To the credit of the editors, they still included it.
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