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The Ethicist
The Ethicist is a column in the New York Times magazine in which journalist Randy Cohen attempts to answer ethical questions sent in to him by readers. At first sight it would appear to have the format and style of an old fashioned 'Agony Aunt' column but in fact Cohen's handling of the issues is serious, thoughtful and incisive. The archives are well worth reading. The column is syndicated throughout the USA and Canada and Cohen also answers listeners' questions on ethics on the National Public Radio radio news program All Things Considered.
The Book of the column: The Good the Bad & the Difference: How to Tell the Right from Wrong in Everyday Situations. Cohen's book of the column containing a collection of questions written into him and his answers.
- The Ethicist
- Wikipedia article on Randy Cohen and the NYT column
- The Ethicist (Answers to Questions)
- Archive of articles appearing in the Randy Cohen's New York Times column. Well worth a read.
- The Ethicist Who Isn't
- What's wrong with The New York Times Magazine's answer to Ann Landers. Article from Reason on line. A critique of Cohen's column.
- Randy Cohen's radio programme
- A radio programme, that can be listened to on-line, in which Cohen provides advice as in his newspaper column.
- The 10 best questions never asked of “The Ethicist.”
- Article from The Slate in which Cohen discusses some ethical questions that were never actually put to him in his column.
- Take His Advice – Or Don't
- Commentary on Cohen's advice column in Pamela Zoslov's personal Blog
Philosophical advice
- Ask a Philosopher
- A small Yahoo group that will provide answers to philosophical questions which can also be discussed by members on the forum.
- AskPhilosophers
- AskPhilosophers' Google group
- Ask the Philosopher
- Email your question to askthephilosof@yahoo.com
- Ask a Philosopher
- A service provided by Pathways, a Philosophy distance-learning programme
- Ask a Philosopher Your philosophical questions answered
- Ask a Philosopher!
- Advisors4Free
- This site provides experts on all sorts of subjects including philosophy. This is a link to the philosophy section.
- Nigel Warburton in Prospect magazine
- Email your questions to him. He answers them in the Everyday Philosophy column. The colum used to be written by AC Grayling under the title Grayling's Questions but Walburton has taken over recently.
- Conundrums
- At the Philosophy Talk radio programme
Email your question conundrums@philosophytalk.org
Religious advice
- Ask the Rabbi
- Send your questions to an Orthodox rabbi.
- Q&A by the Ayatullah Sistani
- Islamic Cleric Ayatullah Sistani runs am advice page on his site. Readers send questions and his advice is posted under categories.
Scientific questions
- Last Word blog
- Send your questions to New Scientist magazine and other readers will answer your queries.
General
- Ask Yahoo
- This service works as a forum. You post a question under a large range of topics and other members will answer them for you. There seem to be a lot of kids on this forum asking for someone to answer their homework questions. Yahoo has another service known as Ask Yahoo which works in a similar way.
- Ask the Experts
- At AskOxford
- Notes and Queries in the Guardian