Philosophy & Ethics
- Where To Stop Treatment For A Sick Patient
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In the debate over government control of health care in the United States, critics looked at the UK system and its death panels, which drew an arbitrary line on when to stop treatment. Their recent efforts led to such an outcry that the government has sai ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2014 - 10:31am
- Criminal Behavior Is Genetic: Great Courtroom Theater But Suspect Science
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Since it is election season in America, we can expect a new wave of social psychology papers claiming that political liberals are smarter and more creative than political conservatives. It makes good mainstream news fodder, just like sexism in hurricane n ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 1:16pm
- Compassion And Euthanasia Don't Always Jibe, Philosophically
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Compassion can produce counterintuitive results, challenging prevailing views of empathy's effects on moral judgment, say philosophers in a new paper To understand how humans make moral choices, the philosophers asked subjects to respond to a variety ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2014 - 10:52am
- Moral Agency: What Is Stopping Terrorism Worth?
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In the modern American political climate, we see echoes of 40 years ago, when Richard Nixon was president. Federal agencies are being used as hatchetmen for the administration, copies of messages mysteriously get lost when subpoenaed by Congress, and if a ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 4:29pm
- A Greedy CEO Is Good For Shareholders- If There Is A Strong Board Of Directors
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Steve Jobs was a good CEO, a visionary. He was also known as a monster driven to fits of rage and a known SEC law violator who gave himself stock options without bothering to tell anyone. He gave nothing to charity. He was in both a personal and a busines ...
Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2014 - 10:05pm
- Suicide For Birthday Best Present Ever
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Today is my 43 rd birthday. When I was 34 years old, I walked along a narrow river through the city of Nanning in the south of China. I was lonely and depressed, no matter the PhD degree I had recently obtained, my freedom, the beauty all around, the ...
Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 18 2014 - 5:15pm
- No One Expects The Organics Inquisition
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In 312, Roman Emperor Constantine was told in a dream to paint a cross on his army’s shields. [1] Based on that dream, he commanded his generals to slap crosses on pretty much everything. If it went into battle, it had a cross on it. And lo, when his army ...
Article - Norm Benson - Jul 30 2014 - 11:57am
- Asimov’s Three Laws Of Robotics Get A 21st Century Health Care Update
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Isaac Asimov's Three Laws Of Robotics, from the story "Runaround" in 1942, are arguably the most famous example of fictional ethics becoming so fundamental they are adopted spontaneously by everyone in an industry that hadn't even been ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2014 - 10:26pm
- In The Age Of Informed Consent, How To Test Experimental Ebola Drugs Fairly?
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Getting informed consent from desperate people and their families for experimental treatments is quite easy. ...
Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2014 - 6:30pm
- Epidemic Ethics: Four Lessons From The Current Ebola Outbreak
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A Liberian nurse disinfects a looted mattress taken from an elementary school that was used as an Ebola isolation unit in West Point, Monrovia, Liberia. AHMED JALLANZO/EPA By Ian Kerridge, University of Sydney and Lyn Gilbert, University of Sydney ...
Article - The Conversation - Aug 26 2014 - 8:00am