Ethics, Values, and Philosophy | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/ethics/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:24:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Ethics, Values, and Philosophy | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/ethics/ 32 32 War Is Us https://issues.org/why-war-review-alic/ https://issues.org/why-war-review-alic/#respond Wed, 07 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45563 Richard Overy is a preeminent historian of war, especially the Second World War. He is perhaps best known for Why the Allies Won, which seems to me the finest account of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/feed/ 0 When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/ https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43615 Funding for university research programs by the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasingly controversial in the United States. A 2023 Guardian article, for instance, described student “unease” upon learning that an… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/lewis-thomas-fins/feed/ 0 How the Octopus Got to the Senate https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/ https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/#respond Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:23:03 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43640 Octopuses are famously smart: they can recognize individual humans, solve problems, and even keep gardens. They are also a popular food for humans: around 350,000 tons of octopus are caught worldwide each… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/how-the-octopus-got-to-the-senate/feed/ 0 How Space Art Shaped National Identity https://issues.org/space-art-national-identity-russo/ https://issues.org/space-art-national-identity-russo/#respond Wed, 01 May 2024 15:07:04 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42246 Space exploration became firmly interwoven with American culture through influential speeches by President John F. Kennedy at a time of heightened awareness of the “space race” between the United States and the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/space-art-national-identity-russo/feed/ 0 Taking Aristotle to the Moon and Beyond https://issues.org/aristotle-philosophy-space-exploration-faith/ https://issues.org/aristotle-philosophy-space-exploration-faith/#respond Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41961 In 2009, journalist Tom Wolfe, author of the space-age classic The Right Stuff, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times entitled “One Giant Leap to Nowhere.” Commenting on the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/aristotle-philosophy-space-exploration-faith/feed/ 0 Don’t Let Governments Buy AI Systems That Ignore Human Rights https://issues.org/government-procurement-ai-systems-human-rights-hickok-hu/ https://issues.org/government-procurement-ai-systems-human-rights-hickok-hu/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41981 In 2022, 28-year-old Randal Reid was driving to his mother’s house for Thanksgiving dinner in DeKalb County, Georgia, when he was pulled over by local police and arrested for a crime committed… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/government-procurement-ai-systems-human-rights-hickok-hu/feed/ 0 “AI Is a Tool, and Its Values Are Human Values.” https://issues.org/interview-godmother-ai-fei-fei-li/ https://issues.org/interview-godmother-ai-fei-fei-li/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41989 Fei-Fei Li has been called the godmother of AI for her pioneering work in computer vision and image recognition. Li invented ImageNet, a foundational large-scale dataset that has contributed to key developments… Read More

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