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Response to Open Peer Commentaries on "Diagnosis By Television Documentary: Professional Responsibilities in Informal Encounters". [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In presenting the situation of a health professional witnessing an instance of misdiagnosis and mistreatment in a television documentary, we hoped to stimulate discussion of the professional responsibilities of health workers in informal encounters in a ...
Alistair Wardrope   +4 more
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Supererogation and Consequentialism

open access: yes, 2020
The thought that acts of supererogation exist presents a challenge to all normative ethical theories. This chapter will provide an overview of the consequentialist responses to this challenge.
Alfred Archer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scalar consequentialism the right way [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The rightness and wrongness of actions fits on a continuous scale. This fits the way we evaluate actions chosen among a diverse range of options, even though English speakers don’t use the words “righter” and “wronger”.
Sinhababu, Neil
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Why a Dog? A Late Date for The Two Gentlemen of Verona [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper I argue that the characters of Lance and his dog Crab were a late addition to Shakespeare’s ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’, and are partly a satire on the Isle of Dogs affair.
John Peachman
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Green Finance and Green Total Factor Productivity: Impact Mechanisms, Threshold Characteristics, and Spatial Effects

open access: yesSAGE Open
Investing in green total factor productivity is the key to realizing high-quality economic development in China. Can green finance effectively enhance green total factor productivity and promote high-quality economic development?
Lingui Qin, Songqi Liu, Fengjie Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Must We Be Perfect?: A Case Against Supererogation [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we offer an argument against supererogation and in favour of moral perfectionism. We argue three primary points: 1) That the putative moral category is not generated by any of the main normative ethical systems, and it is difficult to find ...
Fritts, Megan, Miller, Calum
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