Everyday Ethics

During the recent memorial service for Penn State’s legendary football coach, Joe Paterno, most of the speakers tactfully avoided making comments about Paterno’s role in the now infamous Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.  The majority of the speakers spoke about Paterno’s commitment to winning “the right way,” and about his skills as a leader and [...]

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As a full-time graduate student who is also a parent of a young child, I often find myself with limited windows of time to complete everything that I want to get done.  Surely many of us in the world of academic philosophy, or other academic disciplines, have had the experience of sitting down at our [...]

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SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is currently making its way around Washington, D.C., and the negative response of the online community is resounding through its marbled halls.  There are lots of places on the web where you might find explanations of what SOPA is about (here’s one), as well as why you should or [...]

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Hello,
There has, once again, been a significant gap between my last posting and this one.  Despite my best efforts, I grossly underestimated the time requirements associated with parenting, being a PhD student, and being an acceptable spouse.  Now that I’ve finally completed my PhD coursework, I hope to commit more time to Everyday Ethics.  That [...]

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The frequency of my postings has become somewhat lax as of late.  My wife just gave birth to our son, Brandon, on August 6th, and we have since had to move out of our apartment in Fort Collins.  We will be in transit to Bowling Green, Ohio, where I will be starting the PhD program [...]

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Beginning next week, everyday-ethics.org will feature new content only once per week, on Wednesdays.  Our current publishing schedule has been twice per week, Wednesdays and Saturdays.  Despite this change, we remain committed to providing high-quality content that is both relevant to our readers and that engages substantive philosophical issues.  We apologize for any inconvenience this [...]

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The compassionate, bleeding heart liberal in me is desperately clinging to a desire to help my fellow man as much as humanly possible, without regard to financial burden or legislative backlog.  This point of view seemed very simple during my undergraduate upbringing, especially considering the number of sociology classes that  I took.  Sociology is a [...]

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Here, as promised, is the third and final installment in our analysis of the ethical obligations of the San Diego Chargers to their injured star, Shawne Merriman.  Thus far, we have discovered that looking at consequences did little in helping us to resolve this question, while considerations regarding contractual obligation were helpful, but still unclear.  [...]

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