Themed Articles

Don’t Blame Adam Smith

Toni Vogel Carey says Smith never wanted the free market to be freely corrupt.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

Forever Blowing Bubbles

Mike Fuller on the circular cause of the credit crunch.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

Crisis

Yahia Lababidi stoically responds to the crunch in Daoist fashion.
[Issue 73: May/June 2009]

The Challenge of Moral Machines

Wendell Wallach tells us what the basic problems are.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Will Robots Need Their Own Ethics?

Steve Torrance asks if robots need minds to be moral producers or moral consumers.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Four Kinds of Ethical Robots

James H. Moor defines different ways in which machines could be moral.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Machines and Moral Reasoning

Thomas M. Powers on how a computer might process Kant’s moral imperative.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

How Machines Can Advance Ethics

Susan Leigh Anderson and Michael Anderson relate how their attempts to build ethical machines have advanced their understanding of ethics.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009]

Social Spencerism

Tim Delaney relates how Herbert Spencer, inventor of the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’, originally applied evolutionary thinking to human society and culture.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Nature Red in Tooth and Claw

Sherrie Lyons revisits Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s most energetic defender and the coiner of the word ‘agnostic’.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

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