In the winter of 2019, the appearance of the SARS CoV-2 virus, which led to the COVID-19
pandemic, changed a small part of the biological habitat for human life on Earth, resulting in …

Here is a thought: if there is such a thing as ethics, it must be universal. 1 If we are to unfold
this thought in more detail, it might sound something like this: if there is something, ethics …

orld we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions,
emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological …

The anthropological study of morality is relatively undeveloped. This point is often made and
appears to hold as well today as it did forty years ago (eg Edel and Edel 1968 [1959]; Howell …

Why, when and where are some moral systems supported and followed whilst others are
condemned? Are moral values culturally relative or universal? Can immoral actions be …

There is probably no other field of enquiry in which the 'otherness' of human beings is as
difficult to conceptualise as in the field of morals and values. Sometimes striking and difficult …

There has been a recent surge of interest in studying radical moral change. A number of
philosophers have turned to Thomas Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions as a framework …

On the veranda of one of their houses was set a circle of grass chairs, a table with cakes and
biscuits. The babies crawled around their feet, or played on the lawn outside. The women …

One way to think of the issue of ethics is with the help of a vocabulary of rules and their
infringement–assuming that the normative rules of our society give us the guidelines of how …

Moral philosophy continues to be enriched by an ongoing empirical turn, mainly through
contributions from neuroscience, biology, and psychology. Thus far, cultural anthropology …