The companion piece to this article, "Situating Moral Justification," challenges the idea that moral epistemology's mission is to establish a single, all-purpose reasoning strategy for moral ...

History is written by the winners, and so the instant history that’s written about this year’s presidential election is that it was decided by people concerned with “moral values.” All sorts of ...

Jim Sterba, professor of philosophy at University of Notre Dame, gave this presentation at a panel on Global Ethical Leadership, May 6, 2004. He is the author of Justice for Here and Now, Social and ...

In this May 19, 2016 photo, then US president, Barack Obama, presents the National Medal of Science to Dr. Albert Bandura of Stanford University at the White House in Washington, DC. Bandura's ...

Vox recently asked 15 experts on moral philosophy and public policy to answer the following question: "What do we do know that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?" The resulting essays are ...

In a new study, researchers used online surveys conducted primarily when Donald Trump was president to show that both Republican and Democratic voters provided explicit moral justification for ...

The act of skipping scanning is driven by a mix of moral justification and a sense of entitlement. A growing number of Americans are deliberately bypassing item scanners at self-checkout kiosks, ...

All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities ...

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The Catholic bishops of Washington state are asking Gov. Chris Gregoire to commute the death sentence of Darold Ray Stenson, saying there is “no moral justification” for his upcoming lethal injection.