While many welcome plan to make Moral Science compulsory from upcoming academic year, some point to curriculum overload and question efficacy of learning values through classroom teaching The State ...

On September 8, 1966, Star Trek first aired in the United States, launching a cultural and technological imagination that has profoundly shaped public ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Many people got very excited when the first ...

AI is advancing at a rapid speed. This has led some researchers to worry, drawing upon speculative moral questions, about the future position of machines in relation to humanity. According to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Some economists consider their discipline a science, and thereby divorced from messy ethical details, the normative passions of right and wrong. They teach in a moral vacuum, perhaps even advocating ...

Every day we encounter circumstances we consider wrong: a starving child, a corrupt politician, an unfaithful partner, a fraudulent scientist. These examples highlight several moral issues, including ...

I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...

In late 2017, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) adopted a “Statement on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility”: Scientific freedom and scientific responsibility are ...