Moral Practice News Today

A compilation of recent College of Psychology and Liberal Arts faculty presentations and publications

Eamon T. Aloyo’s profile on The Conversation

Matthew Chalmers applies the political philosophy of John Rawls to creatures great and small.

Nationalism in times of crisis A team of Penn philosophers examine whether it’s morally acceptable for the government to prioritize its own people’s interests and needs during a global pandemic. In 2007, a philosopher and professor of political theory, proposed a thought experiment: a pandemic has broken out and vaccines are in limited supply. Knowing that people in other countries are more vulnerable, is it wrong for the government to vaccinate its own people befo...

The state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence continues to advance at an accelerating clip, surprising experts and futurists. Increasingly complex and in telligent machines are changing the texture of human life as they are insinuated into more spheres of activity, from manufacturing to law enforcement to stock trading. Military applications have historically been one of the greatest drivers of innovation. We can trace the history of warfighting—and especially its recent histor...