New ethical grounds

New ethical grounds

others were seriously injured. Other workers risked their lives to fetch the smallest cubs from the breeding centre and carry them to safety. Two of the centre’s 53 pandas were injured and six went missing, but four returned later. However, staff managed to transport eight pandas to Chengdu where they were flown to Beijing. Conservationists hope the arrival of the animals at Beijing zoo will hi...

New Grounds for Drinking Coffee

New Vantage Grounds in the Psychology of Music.

New grounds for ontic trust: Information objects and LIS

The information ethics of Luciano Floridi’s well-known Philosophy of Information (PI) project are explored as potential foundations for a deepening sense of stewardship in library and information studies (LIS) practice. The implications of PI’s world view of “information objects” as having intrinsic value and resulting moral rights within the evolving “infosphere” are discussed in the context o...

Qualitative Grounds

Suppose that all non-qualitative facts are grounded in qualitative facts. I argue that this view naturally comes with a picture in which trans-world identity is indeterminate. But this in turn leads to either pervasive indeterminacy in the non-qualitative, or else contingency in what facts about modality and possible worlds are determinate. 1 Ground and Necessity Shamik Dasgupta argues that we ...