Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Are there any moral truths? On this day in history, the Moral Science Club–a formal discussion group for Cambridge University’s philosophers–held a meeting to explore this very question. British authors John Eidinow and David Edmonds wrote an entire book (their … Continue reading →

Source: Jim Zimmerlin (hat tip: digg)

We’ve been reading Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen’s fascinating book “Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong,” a book we discovered last month at a conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law held at Savannah Law School. (Dr Wallach was the keynote speaker.) Although their … Continue reading →

In a recent blog post dated 20 October on his blog Marginal Revolution, our friend and colleague Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason, shared with his readers his typology of economic approaches to the world: (1) the rational actor … Continue reading →

This is our final post regarding the new Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, a remarkable collection of erudite essays which was published earlier this year. (During the previous three weeks, we have reviewed 11 select essays from the Libertarian Handbook.) In … Continue reading →

With this post, we review the last of eleven select essays published in the new Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism: Hillel Steiner’s erudite essay on “Free markets and exploitation.” (Dr Steiner, a political philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of … Continue reading →

Here is a small sample of the essays, papers, reports, etc. we’ve learned the most from this week: Derek Parfit’s last paper (via the Journal of Philosophy & Public Affairs) The seven deadly sins of AI predictions (Joost Swarte, via MIT … Continue reading →