Situation ethics teaches that ethical decisions should follow flexible guidelines rather than absolute rules, and be taken on ...

Just as there is everyday ethics (ethics being how best to live) so, too, is there everyday thinking (how best to think). At the personal level, most of us do not take the time to think even a minute ...

Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; general methodological problems of science, of induction and probability, ...

One Supreme Court justice explained her absence from a case. One justice didn’t. The difference shows how difficult forging consensus over even small steps on ethics can be at the Supreme Court, which ...

William Clifford once famously said that “[i]t is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone to believe anything on insufficient evidence.” I have argued elsewhere that he can’t be entirely right ...