Tag: Ethics
Ethics and Innovation
I’m delighted to have contributed to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 10th anniversary publication with a chapter on “Ethical Dilemmas in International Organizations”, alongside contributions from Onora O’Neill, Peter Singer and Peter Singer.
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Covid sceptics make a basic philosophical mistake
Where’s the evidence? After years in which respect for science and reason has been in decline, it should be encouraging to hear this question being doggedly asked. And yet the demand for evidence is being used by those sceptical of measures scientists generally support to bring the virus under control: vaccines, lockdowns, masks. Ironically, the scientists’ mantra is now being used against them. How did this happen?
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Is JK Rowling transphobic?
My appeal to defenders of the “trans women are women, period” argument is stop dismissing those of us who are not yet persuaded as transphobic. Instead, engage with us, show us the errors of our ways, while being prepared to question the absolute rightness of your own.
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The Vatican vice that should worry us all
One cause of the Vatican’s failure to address abuse should worry everyone in our polarised societies: The more we think of our opponents as evil, the more we feel we are on the side of virtue and the blinder we become to our own shortcomings.
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