Adventures in Applied Ethics

This casebook highlights twenty actual, detailed, unique, and intriguing studies raising critical contemporary moral questions from several professions. Should we be worried about recent developments in artificial intelligence? How should scarce medical resources such as ventilators and vaccines be allocated during a pandemic? Can information from sports wearables be collected without violations of the right to privacy? Are human originality and creativity imperilled by ChatGPT? This book closely investigates these questions, plus a host of other vital ethical issues. As the moral world is messy, all of this book’s most vexing real-life cases involve vital questions in more than one area of professional life. By reading it, anyone interested in ethical analysis to guide policymaking governing professions involving complex, crucial issues from the past, present, and into the future will be tightly engaged in a deeper look at some of the most fascinating challenges we face as a species.