Tag: Morality
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Thomas Doyle, Texas State University – Nuclear Weapons and the Moral Debate
What is ethical about nuclear weapons? Thomas Doyle, associate professor of political science at Texas State University, explores this question. Thomas Doyle is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. His most recent book is titled Nuclear Ethics in the Twenty-First Century: Survival, Order, and Justice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). He has…
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Spike Lee, University of Toronto – A Cultural Look at Moral Purity
The definition of purity doesn’t change across cultures, but ideas about the processes of purification do. Spike Lee, associate professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, explores how different cultures consider purity…and morality. Spike W. S. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School…
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John Turri, University of Waterloo – Moral Obligations
What we think of as common sense morality may need some updating. John Turri, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Waterloo, explains how what we ought to do may not always be what we can do. I’m a philosopher and cognitive scientist at the University of Waterloo. My current research focuses on social…