Study: recruiting consumers to ethical choices

While empirical philosophy is usually undertaken using thought experiments which test our intuitions, every now and then a study pops up which gos a little further to test moral actions. Here’s one that examines
The research, Governing the Subjects and Spaces of Ethical Consumption, is one of the projects undertaken by the Cultures of Consumption, and [...]

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Science writing and publishing round-up

Today at ScienceBlogs there are a few posts of interest to science writers:
The Daily Transcript’s post, History and analysis of scientific publishing, comments on a interesting book with an overly long title, In Oldenburg’s Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing.
Recent posts to Adventures in Ethics and Science discuss science [...]

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Moral intuitions about breach of contract

Here’s an article, just uploaded to SSRN, that I can’t resist promoting because it’s about moral intuitions and the law.
From the introduction:
In this research, we use traditional psychological methodologies to ask when laypeople consider breach to be immoral , which moral principles and moral heuristics they employ to make that judgment, and to what [...]

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The future of empirical philosophy: Judges’ gender bias

One of the benefits of having an interdisciplinary education is that I sometimes see odd connections between research programs taking place in faculties that, for the most part, are unaware of one another.
Take, for example, the trends towards evidence-based meta-analyses in philosophy and legal studies. Both of these analyze normative decision making, and exhibit interdisciplinary [...]

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In 100 billion years, cosmologists will be very, very wrong

It seems strange that it is the nature of the universe to put limits on our knowledge of it. Stranger still is the idea that science in the far future might be less effective than present-day science at giving us knowledge of the world.
That is the cost of living in a universe which undergoes large-scale [...]

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