From Ethics and Politics, a special section on Supererogation and the Limits of Moral Obligations. Veena Das (Johns Hopkins): Ethics as An Expression of Life as a Whole. Skye Cleary interviews Massimo Pigliucci, author of How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living. Stephen Finlay (USC): Defining Normativity. Mark Rowlands (Miami): What is Moral Enhancement? Archer Alfred (Tilburg): Forgiveness and the Limits of Duty. Oriel FeldmanHall (Brown), Tim Dalgleish, Davy Evans, and Lauren Navrady (Cambridge), and Ellen Tedeschi and Dean Mobbs (Columbia): Moral Chivalry: Gender and Harm Sensitivity Predict Costly Altruism.
Jonathan Phillips and Fiery Cushman (Harvard): Morality Constrains the Default Representation of What is Possible. Margaret Boone Rappaport (HSP) and Chris Corbally (Arizona): Did Morality First Evolve in Homo erectus? Moral grandstanding: There’s a lot of it about, all of it bad. Linch Zhang interviews Peter Singer on moral objectivity, malaria, climate change, existential risks, and doing your “personal best” when it comes to helping others. On Humean nature: Linch Zhang interviews Neil Sinhababu on desire, possible girls and the nature of human motivation. The introduction to The Happiness Philosophers: The Lives and Works of the Great Utilitarians by Bart Schultz.
Gideon Elford (Oxford): The Coherence of Luck Egalitarianism. Katharina Bauer (Groningen): To be or Not to be Authentic: In Defence of Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal. Caleb Bernacchio (IESE): Morality: Between Taboo and Ideology. P.D. Magnus and Jon Mandle (SUNY-Albany): What Kind of Is-Ought Gap is There and What Kind Ought There Be? Cory J. Clark and Roy Baumeister (Florida State), Adam B. Shniderman (TCU), Jamie B Luguri (Chicago), and Peter H. Ditto (UC-Irvine): Are Morally Good Actions Ever Free? The inadequacies of the invincible: On the failure of Stoic ethics. True altruism seen in chimpanzees, giving clues to evolution of human cooperation.
Frederic R. Kellogg (UFPE): Take the Trolley Problem Please: Pragmatism, Moral Particularism, and the Continuum of Normative Inquiry. Sergio Tenenbaum (Toronto): The Guise of the Good. Marc Krellenstein (Northeastern): Moral Nihilism and its Implications. Hilary Greaves and Toby Ord (Oxford): Moral Uncertainty about Population Axiology. Mark Wells (Mount Holyoke): Markets with Some Limits. Daniel Austin Mullins (Oxford) et al.: A Systematic Assessment of the Axial Age: Thesis for the Emergence of Moralizing Religious Thoughts. You can download Applied Ethics: The Past, Present and Future of Applied Ethics (2016).
