At their best, moral philosophers force us to think long and hard about our actions and responsibilities; at their worst, moral philosophers are incomprehensible or outrageous. I am not quite sure how to judge The Meat Eaters, by Jeff McMahan from Rutgers, but he raises many provocative points, my favorite being this:
Wherever there is animal [...]
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In May of this year, John Avise — an evolutionary biologist at UC-Irvine — published an article (“Footprints of Nonsentient Design Inside the Human Genome“) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s leading scientific journals. The article, which attacked Intelligent Design “theory” on the ground that an omnipotent and [...]
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