Going Along, Avoiding Blame
In “Complicit,” the behavioral ethicist Max H. Bazerman argues that “complicitors always surround the most famous evildoers.” More uncomfortably, he insists that complicitors include the likes of you and me.
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Tag: Politics & society
Philosophy Takes on the News
Special episode on the 2022 US mid-term elections talking democracy, trust, compromise, Trump, information, media and all the rest. With Fiona Macpherson, Chris Carman and host Simon Kirchin.
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Are markets amoral?
It is the very amorality of markets that invites immorality. They encourage us to view interactions through the lens of pure cost and benefit, as though this were a value-free zone.
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Fauxthenticity
Our problem is not that we have too much individuality but we have the wrong kind, an ersatz version that leaves us closer to the dystopia of uniformity than we dare to believe.
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The return of the thriftifarian
Haves posing as have nots is a distasteful phenomenon that papers over how unequal British society really is.
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