For example, nurses should not be required to participate in abortions if they find such operations objectionable, and pharmacists should not be required to prescribe contraceptives or abortifacient ...

Is our consciousness continuous, or does it occur in discrete chunks? At first glance, this may seem like a strange question. It seems, to us, that our lives are like a movie, where we are ...

Animal consciousness should not be thought of as a light switch, which can be on or off, philosophers say. They advocate a different approach.

For example, Bayne’s (2007) theory of “creature consciousness” specifies that phenomenal consciousness in an organism requires some type of mechanism that generates the “phenomenal field ...

A World Without A Conscience We hear all the time about brands that operate seemingly without a conscience. In fact, the recent examples are almost too numerous to name: ...