Maslow assumes that people are not merely economic creators who seek to maximize their happiness. He holds that once people's basic needs are satisfied, they will find contentment in seeking to address “higher” needs—famously esteem and self-actualization. However, Maslow's theory is...

Corporations - the term brings to mind the profit-making ones - are not constituted in way that make communities. However, to the extent that they adopt the concept of stakeholders, they can move in a communitarian direction

How are we to ensure that autonomous machines act ethically? Teaching machines ethics, or getting them to follow whatever the community favors, may not work. Instead, one can use AI to find out what the ethical preferences of its human users are, in a way similar to how we learn about consumer...