The Laboratory for Coexistence and Violence Prevention Studies (LAECOVI) at the UCO examines the relationship between moral ...

Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...

This post was written by Melanie McGrath and Melissa Wheeler, Ph.D. Around the world, governments and citizens are increasingly attending to the ethical implications of our growing development and use ...

Moral rules are rigid. The 10 Commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament, for example, include unambiguous prohibitions, such as, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, Kant’s categorical imperative is ...

The Rev. Debra W. Haffner writes on the need for religious leaders to support people’s efforts to achieve spiritual, emotional, and physical well-being—including their reproductive and sexual health.

Imagine you are a doctor during a deadly epidemic. As your hospital becomes overwhelmed with infected patients, you receive a vaccine that can prevent healthy people from contracting the virus, but it ...

It is wartime. You and your fellow refugees are hiding from enemy soldiers, when a baby begins to cry. You cover her mouth to block the sound. If you remove your hand, her crying will draw the ...

A study analysed the brain activity of military officer cadets and civilians while they were making moral decisions and concluded that the perception of being the author of our actions and their ...

The Trolley Problem is a staple of ethics courses and has even made its way into prime-time television. It's a "problem" because it forces people to decide between two options that are both considered ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. [1] Moral de-skilling is the loss of skill at making moral decisions due to lack ...