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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Socio-Economic Factors Related to Moral Reasoning in Childhood and Adolescence: The Missing Link between Brain and Behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
Neuroscientific and psychological research on moral development has until now developed independently, referring to distinct theoretical models, contents and methods.
Simona Carla Silvia eCaravita   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
wiley   +1 more source

Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

A note on the Trolley Problem and Three Weaknesses of Economic Theory [PDF]

open access: yes
The trolley problem is a moral dilemmas in which human lives are in danger and some, but not all, can be saved by direct intervention of a decision-maker. This article discusses three weaknesses of microeconomics with respect to individual conduct in the
Alessandro Lanteri
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The role of hospitalists in bedside ethics education for medical trainees

open access: yesJournal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Hospitalists are well‐positioned to teach ethics to trainees at the bedside, traversing the chasm between preclinical instruction and real‐world patient care. This paper proposes a structured, generalizable approach to ethics education for hospitalists.
Holland Kaplan
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Dilemmas, the Tragic and God’s Hiddenness. Notes on Shusaku Endo’s Silence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The essay discusses the religious and ethical message of Shusaku Endo’s Silence. Briefly focusing first on the plot of the novel, the article proceeds to discuss the moral dilemma that is the core of the novel and asks whether the dilemma is symmetrical ...
Głąb, Anna
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