Links tagged with “ethics”
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Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear
We talk about regulating the ethics of AIs but we can’t even do it for companies.
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How & How Not to Be Good by John Gray | The New York Review of Books
Critiquing Peter Singer’s “effective altruism”. (subscribers only)
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A Message to the 21st Century by Isaiah Berlin | The New York Review of Books
“If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise.”
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Malcolm Bull reviews ‘On Global Justice’ by Mathias Risse · LRB 21 February 2013
I love reading things like this, here about Risse’s Rawls-influenced theories, but also I find them very, very hard to concentrate on. (Subscribers only)
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Justice with Michael Sandel - Online Harvard Course Exploring Justice, Equality, Democracy, and Citizenship
Sounds great, although it’s hard to tell if this is a simplified or different version of the actual Harvard course outlined at http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/about.html (via NYRB)
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Giving What We Can
A pledge to give 10% of one’s income to what they reckon are the most cost-effective charities. (via Preoccupations)
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This is going into my “best ever” box of forum threads (Philosophistry)
Great future-y thought experiment: “So many of our grandparents were racist, and some of out parents are homophobes. Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own children and grandchildren by appalled by?” (via Danhon)
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John Sentamu: Face to faith | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited
The Archbishop of York on how ethics are not the same as feelings, law, social norms or religion, and how ethics in business are important. Also, I hadn’t noticed comments on Guardian articles before (in tiny tiny text).
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LRB | Jonathan Lear : Can the virtuous person exist in the modern world?
More ethics, morality, philosophy stuff for me to delve into one mythical day when I have loads more time to read books. (Subscribers only)
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The New York Review of Books: Cosmopolitans
Ethics, identity, violence, justice. “Why do we succumb so readily to appeals based on the irrational forms of identity — ethnic, racial, religious — rather than to appeals based on the rational forms — economic above all?”
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The New York Review of Books: Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
Lots of bits in this review of Carter’s book ‘Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis’ that I circled.
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The New York Review of Books: The Way to a Fair Deal
Interesting review of Benjamin M. Friedman’s ‘The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth’ (subscribers only).