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Resisting Reductive Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Ethicists struggle to take reductive views seriously. They also have trouble conceiving of some supervenience failures.
Laskowski, N. G.
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Grumpy old ethicist [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2015
I am aware that I have picked two strands of Medicine that seem to have an image problem. As I discussed in the last piece, I deal with patients who I know are not going to get better. The second strand is ethics. Some say that medical ethics is just opinion, and rather than producing anything ‘useful’, ethics is accused of muddying (already muddy ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Should Environmental Ethicists Fear Moral Anti-Realism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Environmental ethicists have been arguing for decades that swift action to protect our natural environment is morally paramount, and that our concern for the environment should go beyond its importance for human welfare.
Rubin, Michael, Schwenkenbecher, Anne
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Has the Silence Been Broken? Catholic Theological Ethics and Racial Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This survey discusses the emerging contours of a distinctive Catholic ethical approach to race, racism, and racial justice. Among its features are the adoption of a more structural and cultural understanding of human sinfulness, engaged intellectual ...
Massingale, Bryan
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Une perspective philosophique sur la durabilité forte. Pour un écocentrisme relationnel

open access: yesDéveloppement Durable et Territoires, 2019
The debate between strong and weak sustainability was often described by the environmental ethicists as a debate between economists to which they didn’t want to participate in.
Rémi Beau
doaj   +1 more source

“Only a God Can Save Us Now”: Why a Religious Morality Is Best Suited to Overcome Religiously Inspired Violence and Spare Innocents from Harm

open access: yesReligions, 2023
It is common to hear the refrain that religion is a major cause of violence today. And this claim is not without merit. Religious differences can fuel animosity and lead to societal conflict.
Alan Vincelette
doaj   +1 more source

Impacts of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic on the Work of Bioethicists in Canada

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2022
Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the fields of healthcare, public health, and scientific research in Canada.
Marilou Charron   +5 more
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Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective

open access: yesEmerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2006
Philosophical theories of collective action have produced a number of alternative accounts of the rationality and morality of self-interest and altruism.
Ashcroft Richard E
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Op weg na ’n opvoedkundige etiek: problematiek rondom die terme etiek. sede en moraal

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 1992
One of the initial problems which not only ethics as an emerging science has to cope with, but also special sciences like education which have to employ ethical perspectives, is the lack of a unanimous scientific interpretation of the concepts ethics ...
P. J. le Roux
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GenEth: a general ethical dilemma analyzer

open access: yesPaladyn, 2018
We argue that ethically significant behavior of autonomous systems should be guided by explicit ethical principles determined through a consensus of ethicists. Such a consensus is likely to emerge in many areas in which intelligent autonomous systems are
Anderson Michael, Anderson Susan Leigh
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