Questions about meaning, ethics, and how we understand the world.
The Toronto workshop on moral psychology and moral theory put philosophers, psychologists and legal scholars in one room on 7-8 November to argue over what lab findings about moral cognition can - and cannot - prove.
What makes a good life according to research? A 2026 Journal of Happiness Studies paper finds an exciting life offers the greatest satisfaction dividend, while the Global Flourishing Study shows wealthier countries lagging on meaning and relationships.
What is multispecies citizenship? Edinburgh philosopher Elizabeth Cripps brings the question to Southampton's Ethical Challenges Lecture on 17 November — and a parallel fight in research ethics shows what is at stake.
Free will and criminal responsibility do not rise or fall together, a 2026 Frontiers in Psychology paper argues — courts ask about insight and control, not determinism, and the Libet experiments show less than headlines claim.
How morality varies across cultures opens Penn State's Expanding Empathy 2026 series on 4 November — with Mohammad Atari, the MFQ-2's split of fairness into equality and proportionality, and a push for a common lexicon of empathy.
A new essay reads Dante's Commedia through the three degrees of charity — beginners, the progressing and the perfect — and finds a pilgrim whose priorities, not just his location, change on the climb.
A philosopher's Arizona State University lecture and new cognitive-science research reframe attention and morality in the attention economy: what we learn to value decides what we notice, and noticing is where goodness starts.
Rethinking innovation beyond utility: a new Ethics and Society paper argues patent law, TRIPS and the cult of efficiency decide what counts as innovation — and which knowledge, from open source to traditional practice, gets left out.
World Philosophy Day 2026, on 19 November in Paris, asks how we coexist in a world in crises — migration, climate, AI and health — with student workshops, a Citizen Manifesto and a very different model in Modena's free philosophy festival.
Malcolm Murray's Moral Puzzles, launched 19 October 2026, argues the contractarian view of morality — rules as evolved cooperation rather than eternal truths — dissolves classic puzzles from the trolley problem to the ring of Gyges.
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