Machine morality, moral progress, and the looming environmental disaster

The morality of moral education.

The Looming Environmental Crisis

water contaminants and bacteria that increases the risk of becoming ill (9-11). Even more worrisome is that this only appears to be the beginning since the global shift in climate and temperatures are expected to worsen in the coming years, since the world appears to be committed to several more decades of warming (9). An equally worrying trend has also been observed in air quality and the pote...

Disaster and Its Moral

The Essence of Morality: A Teleological-Formalist Conception of Moral Progress

This thesis considers the problem of how people should deal with moral change. I examine various conceptions of morality and induce the essence of morality, or the set of formal features that is fundamental to all moralities. In particular, I claim that the essence of morality consists of four features: (1) it performs some function (namely, solving the problem of cooperation); (2) it is prescr...

Moral Culture: Public Morality and Private Responsibility