Author: henrikvonwehrden

  • Some thoughts on practical ethics #1

    I believe that the main challenge of the 21st century will be to align our actions with our ethics on why and how we act. The dawn of humans let us emerge from only being driven by the need to survive and being guided by emotions towards evolving into a world of communication, culture, tools…

  • Derek Parfit – a relevant individual

    Parfit died on 1st January 2017. He was one of the supreme moral philosophers of our time. I am struck on how the absence of a person that just like me did not believe in a convincing definition of personal identity can make me so profoundly sad.\n\nHe made a deep impression with his claim on…

  • Reading between the lines

    Why write?Writing is for me the right balance between reflection, consolidating as well as sharing information and pushing the envelope on a specific topic just a little bit further. I have been writing for quite some time now, after all this is one of the most prominent part of what science is all about. However…