Category: Organization

The Ethics and Economics Challenge will begin in a few high schools this January. The program will introduce students to foundational moral questions relating to business and economic policy, such as “What are rights?” and “How do we know what justice requires?” Students will learn economic principles that help them answer applied questions such as “What moral obligations do businesses […]

Recently I had the opportunity to give a guest lecture to Medical Ethics students at Norwich University on “Adam Smith and the Moral Emotions.” The lecture is based around Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments. I was able to film much of the discussion on a stationary cell phone. Although the picture is a bit too “close in,” the audio […]

The philosopher W.V.O. Quine came up with the theory of the “web of belief.” According to this theory, our beliefs are a kind of web, in which each individual statement depends on other statements. As we learn new things, we change those statements that are no longer tenable and adjust other statements that depend on them. Those beliefs nearer the […]