When Computer Science professor Barbara J. Grosz opened enrollment for Computer Science 108: “Intelligent Systems: Design and Ethical Challenge” for its second year in fall 2016, she received 140 ...

When McDonald’s pledged in September 2015 to use cage-free eggs in all of its restaurants in the next decade, it came as no surprise to Calvin philosophy professor Matt Halteman. Not because he’s a ...

Many conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) center on the question of how the technology can impact the future and shape our world. In addition to considering the possible future benefits, ...

A humanities degree for a STEM world. This concentration prepares students to write and reason in a world increasingly driven by computers and data, as well as understand the ethical implications of ...

Ethics Bowl is a class housed within the Department of Philosophy that is available to students during the fall semester. The course is unique in that it includes an ethics competition between ...

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce Ethics and Information Technology (PHIL 2160), a new course about the moral implications of emerging technologies for ourselves and our society. The ...

This article explores the connections between analytic philosophy and applied ethics — both historical and substantive. Historically speaking, applied ethics is a child of analytic philosophy. It ...

The Ethics Track is for UAB students who are interested in focusing on moral questions and reasoning in their time as an undergraduate and after graduation. It serves as a specific way to tailor the ...

Students from CIEBA College Preparatory Academy celebrating after the event. Photo credit: Jay Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz’s Center for Public Philosophy (CPP) is a one-of-a-kind ...

Philosophy majors are a favorite punching bag for university critics—including past, Floridian Republican presidential candidates. In the early 2010s, there were annually about 7,800 philosophy ...