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Question posted on April 25, 2013; 1 response
Why Nature selected only 2 genders through evolution, why not 3, 4 or any other number?...
Biology Show

Question posted on April 18, 2013; 1 response
Do we have an interest in our survival as a species? Would it be a bad thing if humans went extinct? I can see why it would be bad if, say, all of the humans on earth were killed. But suppose...
Biology Show

Question posted on April 4, 2013; 1 response
A frequent criticism of things like life extensionism or human genetic modification is that, if successful, such technologies would cause us to be no longer human, or to lose our humanity. My question is, why is that a bad thing?...
Biology Show

Question posted on March 21, 2013; 1 response
I'm against Designer Babies. Is there any rule in ethics that makes it wrong? We can think of many problems with it, like kids who have better genes will bully others, and the parents get to choose talents that might...
Biology, Children, Ethics Show

Question posted on December 6, 2012; 1 response
Look at what I just read in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "2. You could not have been born of different parents. (Someone born of different parents wouldn't be you.) (...) Each of these claims appears to have a true reading." Do...
Biology, Identity Show

Question posted on July 26, 2012; 1 response
Can Darwinian science explain the uncanny fact that a crow both looks and sounds ugly whereas as a prettier bird makes a prettier song? What possible purpose could such an aesthetic unity serve and why would humans be able to...
Beauty, Biology Show

Question posted on July 12, 2012; 1 response
To what extent is one responsible for how accomplished one can be in life? Many assume that hard work is all that is needed. Personally i'm in college, and i've been getting A's because of hard work. I am however...
Biology, Education Show

Question posted on January 3, 2012; 2 responses
Philosophers debate persistence conditions for personal identity because everything about us seems to change, including our cells, our memories, and our bodies. But DNA doesn't change and it codes for specfic traits in every cell of the human body. It's...
Biology, Identity Show

Question posted on December 20, 2011; 2 responses
The idea underlying many concepts of illness is that something has gone wrong with a biological system and some part of that system which has gone awry must be restored to it's proper function. The proper function of a biological...
Biology, Mind Show

Question posted on July 21, 2011; 1 response
Has a person been wronged if they are cloned without their consent? Presume that the cloning process is non-invasive; a scientist simply picks up stray hair you left behind, and then makes a clone of you. Does that violate your...
Biology, Ethics Show

Question posted on May 26, 2011; 1 response
If in the future, science makes it possible to use cloning to "create" Neanderthals which were isolated in their own environment, would the revived species of Neanderthals evolve back into Homo Sapiens millions of years later? Would the process of...
Biology Show

Question posted on April 20, 2011; 1 response
Hello, what do you think about this idea? Suppose there is no God / designer and life is just a bizarre event that has happened to have occurred following the big bang. It seems that whatever form...
Biology, Religion Show

Question posted on April 14, 2011; 1 response
Dear Philosophers (and especially Prof. Pogge), I can see why an empirical theory of DESCRIPTIVE ethics is possible, but can there be an empirical theory of NORMATIVE ethics? It seems to me that, in the final analysis, you cannot deduce "ought"...
Biology, Ethics Show

Question posted on April 14, 2011; 1 response
Would all possible intelligent species tend towards the same moral and ethical precepts that humans do? Or would species with radically different biologies, brain structures, mating patterns, etc. tend towards equally different moral precepts and ethical concerns?...
Biology, Ethics Show

Question posted on March 17, 2011; 1 response
Marijuana impacts the aesthetic dimensions of human life such as art, nature, and especially the subtleties of human interaction? Have any philosophers talked about the effects of marijuana from a philosophical perspective?...
Biology, Mind, Philosophy Show

Question posted on January 4, 2011; 1 response
Has technology gone too far. With stem-cell research, artificial intelligence, bionics, etc. has technology made or is it making humans lethargic? Will we someday not know how to do things for ourselves? With all the advancements in extending age, and...
Biology Show

Question posted on December 30, 2010; 1 response
Is the consensus in favor of Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory as strong among philosophers of science as it is among scientists in general?...
Biology, Philosophers Show

Question posted on October 27, 2010; 2 responses
Theists often claim that the complexities of nature and the tiny details that allow human life to exist are evidence of god, as nothing so intricate and unlikely could happen without a designer. I believe that this is not the...
Biology, Religion Show

Question posted on October 21, 2010; 1 response
dear sir or madam i am a university student of philosophy who is really eager to know about all philosophical aspects of human cloning and actually i am going to write my thesis in ethics of cloning. would you mind if i...
Biology, Ethics Show

Question posted on October 4, 2010; 1 response
According to Kant, as I understand him, nature has an orderliness that appears (or compels belief in) to have been ordered by a divine power, but that the validity of such an appearance can neither be proved or disproved by...
Biology, Philosophers, Religion Show




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