Bhopal disaster in India

The Bhopal Chemical Spill Disaster — Who Is to Blame? [Good Life series]

The long-term estimated death toll from the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India is about 15,000 people. To put that in context, consider that the estimated immediate death toll from the Soviet Union’s 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is 4,000. The death toll from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear radiation leak in 2011 is zero. And the death toll […]

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O desastre químico em Bhopal — quem é o culpado?

O número estimado de mortos como consequência do desastre químico em Bhopal, Índia, no ano de 1984, é de 15.000 pessoas. Contextualizando o caso, considere que o número estimado de mortos no desastre nuclear de Chernobyl, na União Soviética, foi 4.000; no vazamento radioativo em Fukushima, no Japão, em 2011, foi zero; e no acidente

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Review of Gibson’s Ethics and Business

My review of Kevin Gibson’s Ethics and Business: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2007) is now out in the current issue of Teaching Philosophy. The review is behind the subscriber wall but will be publicly available eventually. From my introductory section: “Gibson’s approach is middle-of-the-road in the content of his beliefs about business and ethics,

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