Ethics in a Time of Crisis
Ah, good old utilitarianism is back, not that it ever left. Hate it hate it hate it. Why? Not because we aren’t forced into the situation sometimes of asking how to maximize utility, because… Continue reading…
Ah, good old utilitarianism is back, not that it ever left. Hate it hate it hate it. Why? Not because we aren’t forced into the situation sometimes of asking how to maximize utility, because… Continue reading…
From Xavier de Maistre (not to be confused with his brother Joseph, the philosopher and political theorist), “A Journey Round My Room” (1794), chapter IV, “Latitude and Topography”. For these times.
IV. Latitude and… Continue reading…
Natural experiments during the Covid-19 crisis (you know, the kind where you can’t create an experimental group, mostly because you’d never get IRB approval and it’s totally immoral, but now such a group has been… Continue reading…
from Dec. 6, 2017
28 years ago, I was teaching at Trent University and finishing my Ph.D. In the years before the internet, when you couldn’t just turn on your iPad and get… Continue reading…
From Oct. 6, 2017
The terrorist that perpetrated the killings last weekend in Las Vegas seems to me to represent a kind of turning point in the American experience of mass murder. To this point,… Continue reading…
From Sept. 14, 2017
More thoughts that come out of Hurricane Irma.
I’ve long identified myself, theologically, as closer to the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition than anything else. And what most people associate with that tradition is… Continue reading…
from Sept. 14, 2017
Ongoing Hurricane Irma update (I know, everyone has moved on to the next thing, but in Florida and Texas and India and Bangladesh and other places it continues after the news… Continue reading…
from Sept. 10, 2017
https://www.academia.edu/210695/Places_That_Disasters_Leave_Behind
As it happens, I’ve written about hurricanes before. I focused on how places get made, or don’t, in the wake of a disaster. The one in question for this… Continue reading…