Twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee named David Greybeard strip leaves from a grass stem, creating a tool to fish for termites. This moment would redefine our understanding of what ...

Bernard Williams, the 20th-century moral philosopher, once considered the case of a painter who leaves his young family to devote himself to his art. Certainly the painter deserves criticism because ...

Noel Castree does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Traditional rule consequentialism faces a problem sometimes called the ideal world objection—the worry that by looking only at the consequences in worlds where rules are universally adhered to, the ...

What happens when we can’t pay attention? As someone whose goals depend — perhaps too much — on my competence, the thought of not being able to pay attention upsets me. But lapses in attention are ...

Moral Rules is an adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening. The adaptation takes place in Greece where we follow some days of the lives of two boys currently on the last year of a strict ...