Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Consequentialism says that right or wrong depend on the consequences of an act, and that the more good consequences are produced, the better the act. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a ...

This essay presents a new “reason-based” approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 173, No. 3 (March 2016), pp. 711-731 (21 pages) In his recent book, The Dimensions of Consequentialism, ...

What matters the most in ethics? There are many schools of thought which offer a response to this question. Consequentialist ethics emphasize, not surprisingly, the consequences of our actions.

AFTER all these years, America finally tracked down Osama bin Laden. Did "enhanced interrogation techniques" prove useful in the months and days leading up to our recent, much-celebrated kinetic ...