Published on: 2024-07-28
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science.
But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.
The Australian philosopher Peter Singer is perhaps the world's most controversial ethicist.
Singer offers some unconventional thoughts about the ordinary American's obligations to the world's poor.
The potential of technology to empower is being subverted by tyrannical user interface design, enabled by our data and attention.