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Utilitarian population ethics and births timing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Births postponement is a key demographic trend of the last decades.To examine its social desirability, we study how utilitarian criteria rank histories equal on all dimensions except the age at which individuals give birth to their children. We develop a
Ponthière, Grégory
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The Ethical Boundaries of Chairside Generative Artificial Intelligence in Dental Education

open access: yesJournal of Dental Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In dental school clinics, students are increasingly using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT during patient care. This chairside, or point of care, use raises ethical concerns, particularly around supervision, patient safety, and training quality. This paper argues that GenAI can be ethically used in dental education
Sonal Anand, Ram Vaderhobli
wiley   +1 more source

Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women?

open access: yesFeminist Philosophy Quarterly, 2017
Is Utilitarianism Bad for Women? Philosophers and policy-makers concerned with the ethics, economics, and politics of development argue that the phenomenon of ‘adaptive preference’ makes preference-utilitarian measures of well-being untenable.
H. E. Baber
doaj   +1 more source

Cosmopolitan “No-Harm” Duty in Warfare: Exposing the Utilitarian Pretence of Universalism

open access: yesAthena, 2022
This article demonstrates a priori cosmopolitan values of restraint and harm limitation exist to establish a cosmopolitan “no-harm” duty in warfare, predating utilitarianism and permeating modern international humanitarian law.
Ozlem Ulgen
doaj   +1 more source

Supererogation and the Limits of Moral Obligations. Guest Editor’s Preface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Do moral obligations include all the good that can be possibly achieved? Does every instance of the good always entail obligatory performance?
Grigoletto, Simone
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Views from the hill: Deer stalkers' perspectives on land‐use change in the Scottish Highlands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Land‐use and wildlife management are changing globally as part of efforts to address contemporary environmental challenges. In the Scottish Highlands, the hunting—or ‘stalking’—of deer has entered a period of considerable flux primarily because of national policy changes to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss.
Callum Leavey‐Wilson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promoting ethical practice: moral agency in a hostile environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A reflective journey in probation and social work is the subject of this paper, during which the profession?s value base has been challenged by neo-liberal political and economic orthodoxy that has threatened to suppress social work?s �service ideal ...
Elliott, Nigel
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The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

LAW AND ETHICAL PARADIGMS IN THE DISCOURSE ON WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY

open access: yesKanz Philosophia: A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
There are differences in the approach to law and ethics in Western philosophy compared to law and ethics in Islamic philosophy. Western philosophy itself is divided into several schools, including natural law philosophy, legal realism or positivistic ...
Citra Widyasari S   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Utilitarianism in Crisis

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2020
The exigency and scarcity thrust on society by the emerging COVID-19 pandemic have produced novel interactions and tensions within normative ethical theory. Western ethics is occupied by the inherently incongruent frameworks of utilitarianism, deontology,
Samuel Dale
doaj   +1 more source

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