A philosophy essay is not supposed to contain an explicit thesis statement because it will always contain implicit bias.

According to the Deterrence Theory, punishment is justified on the basis that the criminal deserves to be punished for what he or she did.

Michael Sandel prompted Harvard students to think about particular cases and then asked them to reflect on the moral principles that provided the basis for the students’ judgments about those particular cases.

According to Cohen, a morally good person is truthful, morally courageous, trustworthy, and possesses moral autonomy.

Steven Wasserman was a lawyer (public defender) before he became a philosophy professor with a specialty in ethics.  

According to utilitarianism, the right thing to do is always a matter of the will of the majority.

One of the traditional areas of philosophy is epistemology

In Bill Puka’s experience, the inmates enforced the policies that they made more strictly than prison staff,

Muriel R. Friedman, acccording to the article that dealt with prescribing viagra, prefers “erectile dysfunction” in place of “impotence.”

Richard Parker got sick because he drank sea water.