" Notions such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice are integral to evaluating social
progress and developing policies. One increasingly influential way to think about these …

WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Education Helping students develop their ability to
deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but …

In this article, we discuss the ethics of human embryoids, ie, embryo-like structures made
from pluripotent stem cells for modeling natural embryos. We argue that defining our social …

Research by many feminist economists bears a set of common methodological features,
which Marilyn Power has identified as the social provisioning approach (SPA). This chapter …

Brain death has been accepted worldwide medically and legally as the biological state of
death of the organism. Nevertheless, the literature has described persistent problems with …

" This book is a comprehensive study of the ethics of killing in cases in which the
metaphysical or moral status of the individual killed is uncertain or controversial. Among the …

Suppose a school were to set out deliberately to improve the mental and physical capacities
of its students. Suppose its stated aims were to ensure that the pupils left the school not only …

This paper offers a critique of Martha Nussbaum's description of the capability approach,
and offers an alternative. I will argue that Nussbaum's characterization of the capability …

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought
into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into …

A defence of ethical intuitionism where (i) there are objective moral truths;(ii) we know these
through an immediate, intellectual awareness, or'intuition'; and (iii) knowing them gives us …