As AI increasingly makes moral judgments across diverse cultures, Western philosophical foundations alone may not suffice. However, ancient Chinese traditions offer valuable alternative frameworks for AI ethics. The “lost wallet problem” reveals how Kant, Mengzi, and Daoist perspectives approach the same moral dilemma with fundamentally different reasoning. In our latest LSE Philosophy blog article, CPNSS visitor Percy Venegas […]
Many of us love living with pets. We share our homes, beds, food, and highs and lows with them. Indeed, we are so attached to our animal companions that pet cloning is becoming big business. Of course, not all pets live in loving environments, and we’ve all heard horror stories of abuse or neglect. […]
A previous post proposed a framework for fair—that is, open and inclusive—ways of making decisions on how to finance Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, some critics question the value of procedural fairness. In this post, which draws on a co-authored response to such critics, Alex Voorhoeve examines its worth.
Four potential benefits
Ensuring Universal Health Coverage (UHC)—that everyone around the world has access to an adequate package of needed health services of sufficient quality at bearable cost—is one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and is an aim of health policy in many countries. But UHC is costly, and consequently, countries face difficult decisions on how to fund it. […]
Moral Progress used to be one of the core ideas and commitments of the Enlightenment. Then it became a controversial idea, but a new theory of moral progress is now gaining traction, argues LSE Philosophy PhD student Rafael Ruiz de Lira.
Moral progress was central to the Enlightenment project. Philosophers like Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Comte […]
Research into the minds of other animals and particularly invertebrates raises questions about how we define and understand consciousness itself. LSE Philosophy PhD student Daria Zakharova discusses how creating an artistic interpretation of the mind of a spider can inspire new legislation and shed light on how we understand developments in new forms artificial of intelligence.
In the summer […]
The head of the British army, General Sir Patrick Sanders, recently raised concerns over poor recruitment in the military. But as Jonathan Parry from LSE Philosophy and Christina Easton from Warwick University argue, there are deeper, moral concerns with military recruitment. Campaigning at schools, glamourising the work of the army in advertising, and drawing largely from a pool […]
We are happy to share a very special blog post by Ariana Razavi, winner of our LSE Philosophy Peace Prize 2023.
Introduction by Professor Jonathan Birch: It’s a pleasure to introduce winner of the LSE Philosophy Peace Prize, Ariana Razavi. The aim of the competition was to encourage students to reflect, in the form of a blog post, on […]
One of the key arguments in favour of an elected second chamber is that it would make the UK’s political system more democratic overall. However, an examination of the principles of representative democracy suggests that this is neither a necessary nor desirable reform for the House of Lords to fulfil its purpose, argues LSE Philosophy Fellow Adam Lovett.
If an animal is sentient, we have an ethical obligation to consider its welfare. But, when it comes to invertebrate animals, there is no consensus about whether they are sentient. What can the scientific evidence tell us? And what does it mean for animal welfare policy? Andrew Crump discusses the implications of animal sentience on policy making.
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