"A Plea for Translational Ethics" Philosophical ethics, like philosophy as a whole, is sometimes caricatured as an overly abstract and theoretical enterprise. In fact it has always cared about “the real world”; but its modes and methodologies of engaging with … Read more
Possible Worlds (2000), directed by Robert Lepage
"Infinite Ethics Meets Decision Theory" ABSTRACT: Some classic forms of utilitarianism presume that the goodness of a state of affairs can be determined by adding up numerical representations of the welfare of each of the people. When a population is … Read more
Force Majeure (2014), directed by Ruben Östlund
“When Ethics Must Keep Up with Fast-Paced Biomedical Science: The Case of HIV Cure Research” Karine Dubé, DrPH, MPhil (Oxon), a former Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, is now an Assistant Professor in UNC's Gillings School … Read more
Mulholland Drive (2001), directed by David Lynch
"Insurrectionist Ethics: Black Motherhood and End of Life Care"
“Insurrectionist Ethics: Black Motherhood and End of Life Care” Yolonda Y. Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Howard University and, for 2019-2020, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Her work focuses on bioethics, social and political philosophy, race theory, … Read more
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), directed by Werner Herzog
Christine Tappolet, “Affective Knowledge in Ethics and the Plasticity of Emotions” Gopal Sreenivasan, “Plasticity and Perfection: Emotions and the Moral Life”
