Moral rules are rigid. The 10 Commandments of the Bible’s Old Testament, for example, include unambiguous prohibitions, such as, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, Kant’s categorical imperative is ...

Three studies test eight hypotheses about (1) how judgment differs between people who ascribe greater vs. less moral relevance to choices, (2) how moral judgment is subject to task constraints that ...

Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. [1] Moral de-skilling is the loss of skill at making moral decisions due to lack ...

When it comes to making moral decisions, we often think of the golden rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Yet, why we make such decisions has been widely debated. Are we motivated ...

It's clear that large language models (LLMs) are smart—but moral, too? A recent paper suggests that these models can provide moral guidance that surpasses even expert human ethicists. This development ...

Susan Estrich’s column on April 6 on abortion was on Roe v. Wade. The most telling part was “as someone who has been a law professor for 33 years, I can promise you that we in the legal profession are ...

The shaky pause in fighting agreed between Hamas and Israel is bringing much needed relief to the civilians of Gaza. With its future still uncertain, aid workers are rushing to deliver food, water and ...