Understanding moral injury is vitally important because it gives an explanation of why wife abandonment is an existential ...

Expanding human influence in outer space will require an ethical compass that is more expansive than the one conventionally used. “Mars is a failed Earth.” It is common enough to hear such ...

This is Part 2 of my series on moral distress and cultivating moral resilience. Read Part 1 here. “Moral distress” is a term coined in 1984 by philosopher Andrew Jameton to describe the suffering ...

The Big Ideas: Who Do You Think You Are? A conversation with an unhinged Bing made me rethink what gives humans moral value. By Seth Lazar Mr. Lazar is a philosopher. This essay is part of a series ...

I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in ...

Credit: Getty Images Although it is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis, moral injury can have deep effects on the mental health of veterans. Moral injury – a distinct condition from post-traumatic ...

Mr. Dehghani is the director of the Morality and Language Lab at the University of Southern California. Last week, when bombs were falling over Iran, I saw a post on social media that posed a ...