by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 19, 2017 | Pulse
June 2017 Pulse Last November, Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” as the international word for the year 2016. So significant is this expression that Oxford Dictionaries’ Casper Grathwohl even said it could become “one of the defining words of our time”....
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 5, 2017 | Pulse
June 2017 Pulse Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced that the government is increasing funding for research in the social sciences and humanities in Singapore by 45 percent. ‘Our region today is a fascinating and fertile ground for study’,...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 15, 2017 | Pulse
May 2017 Pulse One of the reasons that the National Council of Churches of Singapore gave for rejecting physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia in its 2008 statement is that these actions are “against the very ethos of medical practice”. The betrayal of...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 2, 2017 | Pulse
May 2017 Pulse In his 1983 article published in Pediatrics, the controversial Princeton University ethicist Peter Singer argues unabashedly that nonhuman animals have greater morally significance than a seriously deformed or disabled human infant. ‘If we compare a...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 17, 2017 | Pulse
April 2017 Pulse At Brighton College, one of the most prestigious private schools in Britain, gender distinct uniforms have been abolished. This means that the students in the school could choose to wear trousers or a skirt, a blazer or a bolero jacket. Teachers in...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 3, 2017 | Pulse
April 2017 Pulse One of the most interesting features of modern divorce laws is ‘no-fault divorce’. As the descriptor makes clear, this is a species of divorce where the spouse filing for divorce does not have to demonstrate any fault on the part of the other spouse....
