I was cooking while listening to some not so random music with my partner on her phone when, before the next song, comes an advertising. Our hands were wet, so we had to wait and hear about the outstanding work done by a charity helping poor children. Of course, one…

Introduction Virtue signaling is one of those concepts that gets a lot of attention before it gets enough reflection, the perfect recipe for misunderstanding. In the following, I will argue that self-promotion virtue signaling — the version which receives most attention — should not be taken as the paradigmatic case…

or why uncertainty should increase our commitment to truth The containment of pandemics such as the COVID-19 depends a lot on coordinated action. Providing information to guide people’s behavior becomes one of the main ways to combat the spread of the virus. This scenario nourishes a common urge in politicians…

Introduction In Taleb’s last book, Skin in the Game there is a subsection entitled Merchandising Virtue in which he discusses virtue signaling and the principle according to which we must act accordingly if we want to criticize others for not acting as they should. However, I believe the best way…

Game of skate is a flatground tricks challenge between two (or more) skateboarders. The basic set of rules is simple. Ro sham bo determines who goes first. Skater A does a trick. Skater B must repeat it. If B fails, he or she gets a letter ‘S’. Whoever gets the…

Sparrows feeding their young; to sleep in a room where some fine incense has been burnt; to notice that one’s elegant Chinese mirror has become a little cloudy; these are items of Sei Shonagon’s list of things that make one’s heart beat faster. Those that belong to the emperor; suckling…

There are a lot of proposed definitions of justice. A common branch dwells on the basic notion of good distribution. This will be the wide scope of this essay. As ‘good’ is a value-word which should be avoided in definitions the next step is an attempt to determine it. The…

There is an extensive bibliography on animal ethics. There is also, a growing number of studies to find the roots of human morals based on animal behaviors of reciprocity and altruism. In face of that, can we envisage a philosophical approach to an ethics of animals? Not in the sense…