Are medical ethics universal or culture specific

A Cognitive Study of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Persian: Universal or Culture-Specific?

In the last 2 decades, studies on conceptual metaphors have profoundly increased. The development in this field was followed by Lakoff and Johnson's (1980b) work on describing the conceptual role played by metaphors and their correspondence with language and thought. This study aimed to compare conceptual metaphors in Persian and English through a corpus-based approach as well as examining both...

Is Mindreading a Universal or Culture-Specific Construct?

This paper discusses the extent to which mindreading capability is culture-dependent, and to determine if differences between cultures impose systematic differences in the trajectory of mindreading development. We start with the ways in which mindreading is defined within the framework of modern psychological research. Second, we will present the idea that human theory of mind is universal, tog...

Universal Algorithmic Ethics

This paper proposes a novel research direction for algorithmic probability theory, which now allows to formalize philosophical questions about concepts such as the simulation argument, personal identity, and the rationality of utilitarianism. Pushing progress in these directions might be of high relevance for future society and artificial general intelligence. We start to build up a set of form...

Are virtues national, supranational, or universal?

Many studies investigated cultural differences in values, most notably by Hofstede and Schwarz. Relatively few have focused on virtues, a related and important concept in contemporary social science. The present paper examines the similarities and differences between nations, or blocks of - culturally related - nations on the perceived importance of virtues. Adults (N = 2.809 students) from 14 ...

Nursing ethics and medical ethics.