Blogs, Podcasts, and Columns
- The Splintered Mind A blog by Professor Eric Schwitzgebel of UC Riverside
- The Ethicist at the New York Times. A column that deals with ethical quandaries written by philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Articles
- Research by philosopher Shawn Nichols and psychologist Nina Strohminger suggests that our sense of personal identity has more to do with the consistency of a person’s moral character than with their having intact or stable autonoetic memory.
- Should Your Driverless Car Kill You? A contemporary instantiation of the classic Trolly Problem. See also here and here. Should informed consent play a role? Eric Schwitzgebel of UC Riverside argues that as an issue in applied ethics, public opinion should be considered.
- A recent study shows that depressive symptoms improve when therapists employ “Socratic questioning”.
Writings on the value of the Humanities and Liberal Arts
- Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life, by Arnold Weinstein in The New York Times, Feb. 24, 2016.
- Rise of the Humanities, by Peter Mandler