Lessons from a divided nation
Could Brexit be good for business? Perhaps – if only because it has taught us several important lessons about how not to conduct collective decision-making, which corporations would be wise to heed.
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Tag: Ethics
The Anatomy of Morality
“The new “moral scientists” address ethics solely through empirical methods and try to put moral claims on a secure scientific footing. Julian Baggini reviews “Science and the Good” by James Davison Hunter and Paul Nedelisky.”
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Universities and the altar of profit
You might think that a university philosophy department facing closure in Hull is of as much interest to the average person as the shutting of a butcher’s in Wolverhampton is to a vegetarian in Totnes. But the events unfolding on Humberside are symptomatic of a deep malaise affecting not just universities but the wider culture. The crude pursuit of what is “practical”, “efficient” or “useful” is threatening everything of value that isn’t evidently profitable.
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Reason in a Fractious Society
Video of my keynote talk at Integrity 20’18 presented by Griffith University
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Why your rivals are smiling at you
No one succeeds online by screaming “read me everyone!” Instead, we all act as though we are simply being sociable, sharing our thoughts freely, almost as though we were being generous rather than self-serving. We retweet and share the posts of others, not only because we find them genuinely interesting, but also because we know that is what cooperatition needs: its the cooperative side of the competition for attention.
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