Kosher Cheeseburger?!
Cultured, Stem Cell Meat, Halacha, Kashrut, Science, Parshat Vayera, Shemini, Re’eh, Shavuot
Shavuot
Baby You Can Drive My Car – Autonomous Vehicles on Shabbat?
Autonomous Vehicle, Shabbat, Parshat Emor, Shavuot
On the Individual and his Obligation to the Other
Modern Jewish Philosophy, Ethics, Overview of Voices, Parshat Masei, Bereishit, Shavuot
We’re History: On the Development of History
Messiah, Nations, Hegel, R. N. Krochmal, Parshat Vayehi, Vaera, Shavuot
Jacob & Esau: Same and Other
Jacob, Esau, Levinas, Totality and Infinity, Ethics, Parshat Toldot, Vayetze, Vayishlach, Vayeshev, Miketz, Vayigash, Vayehi, Shavuot
How Free is Your Will?
Foreknowledge v Freewill, Parshat Lech Lecha, Vayelech, Nitzavim, Pesah, Shavuot
To Bless the Wise
Greek Wisdom, Science versus Torah, Blessing the Wise, Professor Aumann, Hannuka, Shavuot
Autonomous Vehicle Ethics
Many a class on ethics opens with the renowned Trolley Problem. This ethical dilemma has been used to introduce the classical approaches of utilitarian versus deontological ethics. Now, though the Trolley Problem has had some real-life applications, the advent of the autonomous vehicle has just made the Trolley Problem very real. Autonomous vehicles will be programmed to make life-and-death decisions, and the burning question is how should they be programmed?
Mashiach, Mikdash, and Mobileye
Human v Divine responsibility, Redemption, “The Messiah comes riding on a Donkey… powered by Mobileye”, Yom HaAzmaut, Yom yerushalayim, Parshat Terumah, Shavuot, Rosh Hashana
Make it Count
Counting, Korbanot, Philosophy from 4 Halachic Anomalies, Sefirat HaOmer, Pesah, Shavuot, Parshat Emor