Big Questions
- The Value of a Pale Blue Dot
- Does Anything Matter?
- Is There Moral Progress?
- God and Suffering, Again
- Godless Morality (with Marc Hauser)
- Are We Ready for a "Morality Pill"? (with Agata Sagan)
- The Quality of Mercy
- [Thinking about the Dead]
- Should This Be the Last Generation?
- Philosophy on Top
Animals
- Europe's Ethical Eggs
- If Fish Could Scream
- Cultural Bias against Whaling?
- [A Case for Veganism]
- Consider the Turkey: Thoughts for Thanksgiving
- In Vitro Meat
- Chimpanzees Are People, Too
- The Cow Who . . .
Beyond the Ethic of the Sanctity of Life
- The Real Abortion Tragedy
- Treating (or Not) the Tiniest Babies
- Pulling Back the Curtain on the Mercy Killing of Newborns
- No Diseases for Old Men
- When Doctors Kill
- Choosing Death
- Dying in Court
Bioethics and Public Health
- [The Human Genome and the Genetic Supermarket]
- [The Year of the Clone]?
- Kidneys for Sale?
- The Many Crises of Health Care
- Public Health versus Private Freedom?
- Weigh More, Pay More
- Should We Live to 1,000?
- Population and the Pope
Sex and Gender
- Should Adult Sibling Incest Be a Crime?
- Homosexuality Is Not Immoral
- Virtual Vices
- A Private Affair?
- How Much Should Sex Matter? (with Agata Sagan)
- God and Woman in Iran
Doing Good
- The One-Percent Solution
- Holding Charities Accountable
- Blatant Benevolence
- Good Charity, Bad Charity
- Heartwarming Causes Are Nice, But Let's Give to Charity with Our Heads
- The Ethical Cost of High-Price Art
- Preventing Human Extinction (with Nick Beckstead and Matt Wage)
Happiness
- Happiness, Money, and Giving It Away
- Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?
- The High Cost of Feeling Low
- No Smile Limit
- Happy, Nevertheless
Politics
- Bentham's Fallacies, Then and Now
- The Founding Fathers' Fiscal Crisis
- Why Vote?
- Free Speech, Muhammad, and the Holocaust
- The Use and Abuse of Religious Freedom
- An Honest Man?
- Is Citizenship a Right?
- The Spying Game
- A Statue for Stalin?
- Should We Honor Racists?
Global Governance
- Escaping the Refugee Crisis
- Is Open Diplomacy Possible?
- The Ethics of Big Food
- Fairness and Climate Change (with Teng Fei)
- Will the Polluters Pay for Climate Change?
- Why Are They Serving Meat at a Climate Change Conference? (with Frances Kissling)
- Dethroning King Coal
- Paris and the Fate of the Earth
Science and Technology
- A Clear Case for Golden Rice
- Life Made to Order
- Rights for Robots? (with Agata Sagan)
- A Dream for the Digital Age
- A Universal Library
- The Tragic Cost of Being Unscientific