Vaccine hesitancy is complicating physicians' obligation to respect patient autonomy during the COVID-19 pandemic

New ethical issues are emerging during COVID-19 as doctors struggle with their obligations to ‘do no harm’ and respect patient autonomy.

Ryan Liu, Family Medicine Resident Physician, Penn State • conversation
March 24, 2022 • ~7 min

Fewer Americans are hunting, and that raises hard questions about funding conservation through gun sales

Every gun and bullet sold in the U.S. generates excise taxes to support conservation. But Americans are buying guns now for different reasons than in the past – and increasingly, not for hunting.

Christopher Rea, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University • conversation
March 21, 2022 • ~10 min

Why celebrities have a moral responsibility to help promote lifesaving vaccines

An ethicist argues that choices made by celebrities could impose unjustified risk of harm on others.

Tina Rulli, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of California, Davis • conversation
March 15, 2022 • ~8 min

Think therapy is navel-gazing? Think again

Our research investigates the connections among mental health, holistic well-being and relational virtues – ideas that many people think of as ethical or religious.

Steven Sandage, Professor of psychology of religion and theology, Boston University • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 • ~9 min

Can machine-learning models overcome biased datasets?

A model’s ability to generalize is influenced by both the diversity of the data and the way the model is trained, researchers report.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 21, 2022 • ~8 min

How to be a god: we might one day create virtual worlds with characters as intelligent as ourselves

If virtual characters can be as smart as humans, having free will, can we kill or harm them?

Richard A. Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design, University of Essex • conversation
Jan. 17, 2022 • ~7 min

Medical robots: their facial expressions will help humans trust them

When it comes to trust, people like their robots to have human expressions – just not too human.

Joel Pinney, PhD candidate in data visualisation, robotics and creative computing, Cardiff Metropolitan University • conversation
Jan. 3, 2022 • ~7 min

Home for the holidays and worried about an older relative? Make observations, not assumptions

In tough conversations, show your respect for loved ones’ autonomy and dignity.

Laurie Archbald-Pannone, Associate Professor of Medicine, Geriatrics, University of Virginia • conversation
Dec. 21, 2021 • ~7 min

Who's in? Who's out? The ethics of COVID-19 travel rules

Should countries require COVID-19 vaccination for entry while vaccines remain globally scarce?

Caesar Atuire, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Ghana • conversation
Nov. 30, 2021 • ~11 min

3 Questions: Sophie Gibert on ethics in action

PhD student's research centers on ethics, including bioethics, and the philosophy of action.

Kathryn M. O'Neill | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
Nov. 17, 2021 • ~8 min

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