The UCF Center for Ethics hosts discussion groups and public lectures to help our community engage contemporary ethical issues.
The vast majority of people (including philosophers) are “compatibilists,” believing that the world is a materialist place with determinist rules yet…somehow…we still have free will. In this talk, I argue strenuously that free will is a myth, completely incompatible with how we know that the biology of behavior works. Moreover, I argue that it would be a great thing if …
Center for Ethics eventsThe routine killing of healthy animals at research endpoints is labeled “euthanasia,” but is not. This euphemism concerning millions of animal deaths annually misleads the public on the morally fraught issue of animal research. The historic and everyday meaning of “euthanasia” includes two individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions: (1) humane reason – the killing is for the good of …
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