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Peter Singer, Michael Vick, and Factory Farming

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John Basl on Singer's recent comparison of Dog Fighting and Factory Farming

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Biopower, Dignity, Synthetic Anthropos

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What are our ethical obligations in the realm of synthetic biology and how would we go about figuring them out? Anthropologist Paul Rabinow takes a look at these issues of applied ethics.

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Email Makes Lying More Likely?

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Interesting article discussing a recent study. The results suggest that people are more likely to lie to people over email than face-to-face communication.

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More on Peter Singer and Jamie Berube'

http://crookedtimber.org

An interesting correspondence between Singer and Berube' on Down Syndrome children and their inclusion or exclusion in the human community.

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Saul Smilansky on Bloggingheads

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Looks like there are some pretty interesting topics.

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On Saving non-Persons

http://prosblogion.ektopos.com

Interesting argument for the conclusion that persons do not have greater moral standing than non-persons.

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Public Ethics Radio

http://publicethicsradio.org

Adding to the growing body of online philosophy resources [HT: Megan Kime]

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Reparations for Slavery?

http://peasoup.typepad.com

Michael Huemer has an interesting post (over at PEA Soup) discussing an argument for reparations for slavery.

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