Browsing by Subject "ethics"
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A Naturalistic Philosophy of Play
(2015)This is a philosophical work on the subject of play. Organized around a handful of questions, the thesis approaches inquiry by first integrating empirical lines of research and then applying the methods of philosophy. The ... -
Acquisition, Analysis, and Sharing of Data in 2015 and Beyond: A Survey of the Landscape: A Conference Report From the American Heart Association Data Summit 2015.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2015-11-05)BACKGROUND: A 1.5-day interactive forum was convened to discuss critical issues in the acquisition, analysis, and sharing of data in the field of cardiovascular and stroke science. The discussion will serve as the foundation ... -
Adapting a Kidney Exchange Algorithm to Incorporate Human Values
(2017-05-04)Artificial morality is moral behavior exhibited by automated or artificially intelligent agents. A primary goal of the field of artificial morality is to design artificial agents that act in accordance with human values. ... -
Authenticity, Sincerity and Spontaneity: The Mutual Implication of Nature and Religion in China and the West
(Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2013-01-01)Fundamental approaches to ethics and morality in both China and the West are bound up not only with conceptions of religion and ultimate truth, but also with conceptions of nature. One dominant theme in the West is to see ... -
Bumbling, Bluffing, and Bald-Faced Lies: Mis-Leading and Domestic Audience Costs in International Relations
(2011)In a democratic society, does the electorate approve of truth and disapprove of deception, do opinion patterns exclusively mimic partisan elite views, or do opinion patterns react exclusively to successful or failed outcomes? ... -
Chaucer and the Disconsolations of Philosophy: Boethius, Agency, and Literary Form in Late Medieval Literature
(2016)This study argues that Chaucer's poetry belongs to a far-reaching conversation about the forms of consolation (philosophical, theological, and poetic) that are available to human persons. Chaucer's entry point to ... -
Critical Realism: an Ethical Approach to Global Politics
(2009)My dissertation, Critical Realism: An Ethical Approach to Global Politics, investigates two strands of modern political realism and their divergent ethics, politics, and modes of inquiry: the mid- to late 20th century realism ... -
Democritus and the Critical Tradition
(2013)Modern scholars cannot agree how extant fragments of thought attributed to Leucippus and Democritus integrate (or do not) to form a coherent perspective on the ancient Greek world. While a certain degree of uncertainty ... -
Fictions of Authority: The Normativity of Representation after Shakespeare
(2020)The core claims of this study are that dramatic and political practice mutually depend on rich concepts of mimesis––of exemplary images and formative imitation––for their coherence; that the seventeenth century bears witness ... -
Global Health: A Normative Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights and Global Distributive Justice
(2007-05-07)In the past several years, the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on access to medicines and medical technologies has come under increased scrutiny. Motivating this are highly publicized cases where IPRs appear ... -
I Want Them to Read Again: Stories and Moral Imagination in the Middle Grades Language Arts Classroom
(2017-05-08)Without question, I believe that those who desire to teach and subsequently become educators do so because they look at students and find hope, recognize humanity. As a teacher for these last 13 years, the most foundational ... -
Intellectual humility and perceptions of political opponents.
(Journal of personality, 2020-06-02)OBJECTIVE:Intellectual humility (IH) refers to the recognition that personal beliefs might be wrong. We investigate possible interpersonal implications of IH for how people perceive the intellectual capabilities and moral ... -
Scriblerian Ethics: Encounters in Satiric Metamorphosis
(2009)"Scriblerian Ethics" proposes that the aesthetic and ethical standpoint of the writings of the Scriblerians (Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Oxford, Parnell) can be better understood through an attunement to their orientation ... -
The Benevolent Ideal Observer Theory
(2018)This dissertation provides an answer to what I call the central question of moral philosophy: what, if anything, is moral value? The answer, I argue, is that moral value is the relational property of eliciting a suitable ... -
The Ethics of the Rule of Rescue: Guidelines for Use in the Medical Setting
(2019-04-16)The “rule of rescue” (RR) is the human impulse to rescue an identifiable person facing imminent threat, regardless of associated costs. For example, no price is spared to save trapped miners, even though instituting improved ... -
The Other's Freedom: Existential Vulnerability in the Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir
(2020)In this project, I define existential vulnerability as the idea that the meaning and value of our actions depends on other people’s responses to us. We depend upon others to make our lives meaningful. Others do this by taking ... -
The Value of Virtues: Perplexing Ponderings for Public Accountants
(2015-04-30)How can teaching values-based ethics influence behavior and decision making among professional in the accounting, financial management and auditing professions? Will a shift from historical examples of outcomes ...
