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The Trajectory of a Life: Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano

A topic apt to be covered in an ethics course is the nature of living well. The theory we have defended in our book...

Healthcare Ethics, Gisela Reyes

This course on healthcare ethics came to be as an amalgamation of my experiences both as a graduate teaching assistant at Northwestern University and...
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Sarah Silverman’s “I Love You, America” and World-Traveling

In the clip from I Love You, America (2017–2018), comic Sarah Silverman talks to a conservative family about their beliefs regarding gun control, Donald...
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Race and Animals, Maya von Ziegesar

I taught this course at Wesleyan University in Spring 2025 to a class of 15 students, mostly seniors and sophomores. I was tasked the...
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“Chidi Kills Janet!” Unpacking Sentience and the Moral Status of AI

This clip, “Chidi Kills Janet!,” from the first season of NBC’s The Good Place, lets us gauge our intuitions about how computers fit with...
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Interdisciplinary Humanities (SEARCH), Benjamin E. Curtis

The SEARCH program has existed at Rhodes College, in one form or another, since 1946. This chronologically oriented, three-semester “Great Books” interdisciplinary humanities sequence...
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Ethical Leadership, Trevor Hedberg

The W.A. Franke Honors College at the University of Arizona launched its Civic Leadership Certificate Program (CLC) in Spring 2023. Ethical Leadership, which I...
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Zen and the Art of Automotive Design

This brief Mazda advertisement describes the Japanese philosophy of jinba-ittai, the experience of a rider being one with their horse through the communication of...
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Feminist Themes in Philosophy Film and Literature, Philip Bold & Tamara Fakhoury

We share a deep belief in the philosophical power of film—and in its unique ability to connect abstract thought with lived experience, imagination, and...
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A Question about Grading, Steven M. Cahn

In a generous, extended review of my recent book Exploring Academic Ethics, Michael Goldman fairly summarizes my view that a grade should represent an...