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Global Applied Ethics Institute

Think Tank for Values in Business, Science, and Public Policy

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The ethics of basic income

Switzerland is the first country ever to vote on the implementation of an unconditional basic income. In their guest post Daniel Häni and Philip Kovce …

Review – „Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right“ by Aharon Barak

Book review „Human Dignity: The Constitutional Value and the Constitutional Right“ by Aharon Barak (CUP, 2015) …

Euthanasia: more options doesn’t always expand our freedoms, sometimes it limits them

When it comes to euthanasia, at first sight more options seem to equal more freedom. However, Neil Levy’s guest post outlining the „paradox of choice“ …

How psychology can help us solve climate change

In this guest post Rachel New and Nadira Faber explain how psychologically informed framing may help people to adopt a climate friendly behaviour in their …

Why robots need to be able to say ‚No‘

As humans, robot’s commanders are not infallible. In this Guest Post Matthias Scheutz argues that to truly act in their inventor’s interest, robots need to …

Five reasons we should embrace gene-editing research on human embryos

In light of its therapeutic prospects, GAEI board member Julian Savulescu argues for the moral endorsement of gene-editing on human embryos …
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