Set up a debate

Moral truths exist independently of human opinion

Whether moral claims can be true or false in the way factual claims are, or whether they express attitudes, conventions, or choices.

Sufficiently advanced AI deserves moral consideration

Whether an artificial system could have interests that matter morally, and what we would owe it if it did.

Parents should be allowed to genetically enhance their children

Whether parents may use genetic technology to improve their children's traits beyond preventing disease, and what that would do to parenthood, equality, and the children themselves.

Preserving a person's mind digitally would be a real continuation of that person

Whether a digital copy of a person's memories and personality would be that person, a new person, or no person at all.

Human beings have free will

Whether our choices are genuinely up to us, or whether they are determined by prior causes we did not choose.

Consciousness is nothing more than a physical process

Whether subjective experience can be fully explained by brain activity, or whether there is something about the mind that physics leaves out.

Religious faith can be rational

Whether belief without conclusive evidence can be a reasonable stance, or whether faith by its nature is a failure of rationality.

Gender is a social construction rather than a natural fact

Whether the roles, expectations, and identities attached to being a man or a woman are made by societies or given by biology.

Adult children have a duty to care for their aging parents

Whether the relationship between parents and children generates binding obligations, or whether care must be freely given to be genuine.

Life can be meaningful without God

Whether meaning requires a transcendent source that confers purpose, or whether human lives can be meaningful on their own terms.

You are the same person you were ten years ago

Whether there is a persisting self that underlies change, or whether identity over time is a convenient fiction.

The self is an illusion

Whether there is a unified subject at the center of experience, or whether the sense of being someone is constructed by processes with no one behind them.