GalleryImmigration and the Natural Lottery
Whose interests should matter when deciding a nation’s border policy? Campbell Brown takes a moral look at border control.
GalleryAfter Obamacare
How should US policy-makers choose a replacement for the Affordable Care Act? Dan Hausman looks at the values and economic complications guiding health care reform.
GalleryThe Philosophy of Social Evolution Part 5: Cultural inclusive fitness?
In the final post in this series, Jonathan Birch considers the development of large-scale human cooperation.
GalleryThe Philosophy of Social Evolution Part 4: The social organism
Has the time come for a revival of the “cell state” perspective? In part 4 of this series, Jonathan Birch looks at the evolution of multicellular life.
GalleryThe Philosophy of Social Evolution Part 3: Relatedness, time and bacteria
In the third installment in this series, Jonathan Birch looks at “horizontal transmission” and relatedness in bacteria.
GalleryThe Philosophy of Social Evolution Part 2: Relatedness and Altruism
How can we explain the evolution of altruism? In part 2 of this series, Jonathan Birch considers “Hamilton’s Rule”.
GalleryThe Philosophy of Social Evolution Part 1: Altruism in Nature
In the first installment of this five-part series, Jonathan Birch looks at biological altruism, a key concept from his new book The Philosophy of Social Evolution.
GalleryThe Last Hope Part 3: Attitudes
How do you hope to be thought of after you die? In his final post in this series, Luc Bovens looks at attitudes towards the dead.
GalleryWeathering catastrophic storms: the science and philosophy of hurricane prediction
The science of predicting hurricanes is crucial for disaster management and insurance, but also raises difficult methodological and philosophical questions. In this post, Joe Roussos asks whether hurricane modellers should average the results from different models of hurricane frequency.
GalleryAn Education in Diversity?
Can compulsory formal education be justified on liberal grounds? Christina Easton on J. S. Mill, John Rawls and the famous Wisconsin v. Yoder court case.
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