Tag: Ethics
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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United in Rage
While it’s heartening to be reminded that there are at least some issues on which all decent people agree, if we look more closely at the conditions that have allowed for this outbreak of ethical agreement, they could be as much a cause of concern as they are of reassurance.
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Why philosophy matters
All the most popular defences of philosophy make a basic philosophical mistake. They all focus on instrumental rather than intrinsic values, arguing that philosophy is a means to the ends of happiness, moral virtue or thinking well. But a large part of philosophy is about identifying what we should pursue as ends in themselves.
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