When Does a Human Being Become a Person? -- All Human Beings are Persons -- How is the Dignity of the Person as Agent Recognized? -- An Ethical Assessment of Bush’s Guidelines for Stem Cell Research -- Moral Absolutism and Ectopic Pregnancy -- Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate? -- Solomon’s Dilemma -- Capital Punishment and the Catholic Tradition.The Edge of Life: Human Dignity…
Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice -- Real World Justice -- Against Global Egalitarianism -- What We Owe to the Global Poor -- The Role of Apparent Constraints in Normative Reasoning: A Methodological Statement and Application to Global Justice -- Do Patriotic Ties Limit Global Justice Duties? -- Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World -- The Cosmopolita…
History and Context of the Persistent Vegetative State -- The Pathological Basis of Vegetative States -- Authoritative Statements -- Consciousness -- Sentience -- Electrophysiological and Imaging Studies of Patients in Vegetative States -- An Analogy between Anaesthesia and Persistent Vegetative State -- Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis of Vegetative States -- Emergence from a Vegetative State -- A P…
Clinical Bioethics: Comparing Theoretical Models -- Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age -- The “Telos” of Medicine and the Good of the Patient -- The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society -- A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics -- Toward Clini…
Lawmaking and Interpretation in The Age of Biotechnology -- Religion: Medico-Legal Norms or Constructs -- Procreational Autonomy or Theological Restraints -- Freedom of Scientific Investigation -- Genetic Enhancement -- A Compassionate Death.Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific age…
The Inefficient Safeguards of the Minority Shareholders -- The Attitude of Society -- The Excessive Privileges of the Majority Shareholders -- Internet and Transparency as Ethical Vehicles -- Ethical Funds -- Activist Associations, ‘Transparency International’, ‘Adam’ -- Case Study of the French Company Loskron -- Case Study of the Israeli/American Company Furolias -- Case Study of the …
Defining Academic Integrity - International Perspectives -- Academic Integrity in North America -- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : China -- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : India -- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : Indonesia -- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : Japan -- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : Malaysia -- Educational Integrity in Austra…
In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Foucault's w…
Open AccessThis book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performan…
Cohen and the Marburg School in Context -- Logik -- Cohen’s Ursprungsdenken -- Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen’S System of Philosophy -- Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a priori and metaphysical a priori in Cohen’s neo-Kantianism -- Notes on Future and History in Hermann Cohen’s Anti-Eschatological Messianism -- Hanging Over the Abyss -- Ethik -- Jurisprudence is the Organo…