Where did the word principles come from? late 14c., "origin, source, beginning" (a sense now obsolete), also "rule of conduct; axiom, basic assumption; elemental aspect of a craft or discipline,"from Anglo-French principle, Old French principe "origin, cause, principle," from Latin princip...
What is the decision making process of virtue ethics? How does situationism challenge virtue ethics? Where did stoicism originate? Where did the four cardinal virtues of stoicism come from? What is agent-based virtue ethics? Is virtue ethics cross-cultural?
Anderson, Dennis
I use the word intention, here, as it is commonly understood, to mean purpose or aim, but its more esoteric meanings from medicine, neurobiology, theory of mind research, religion, and spirituality, may also relate, revealing as they do how completely the notion of intention is enmeshed in ...
Users are betting that the platform is going to become a less fun place to hang out. That’s partly because they’ve seen Musk laying off teams of people who work to make sure the platform is safe, including Twitter’s entire AI ethics team. It’s likely something Musk will come to ...
criteria (“virtues and vices”) they use toadjudicatebetween theories, and engage inmetatheoreticaldialogue about these. The five virtuous practices we distill here can be viewed as a step in that direction for the subfield of cognitive science that does research on the evolution of human ...
Clearly, tonality is as much a constructed system as ethics, something which is produced by (not before) human interaction and disseminated, with constant re-adaptations, from generation to generation. An invocation of the musical philosophy of John Cage is appropriate here: “The first question ...
Where does difference begin? How do we (un)know others and their identities when looking at them? How can we learn to rely less on visual evidence? Is it possible to shift our perception of the body as an expression of ‘true’ and ‘essential’ difference irrespective of the visual under...
Quote 4 “A healthy meal should have most if not all of the healthy minerals and vitamins that help in the advancement and maintenance of a growing body.” Quote 5 “[An unhealthy food is] something that does affect you in a negative way… by quantity, if you eat too much. Like, for...
The Island(2005): Clone farms for spare parts—portrayed as future tech, rooted in present ethics. Monsters, Inc. (2001): A factory harvesting children’s screams as power. Coincidence, or symbolic disclosure of darker industries? Guardians of the Galaxy: Galactictrafficking, strange mutations—so...