Do Ethicists and Political Philosophers Vote More Often Than Other Professors?

Do Ethicists and Political Philosophers Vote More Often Than Other Professors?

If philosophical moral reflection improves moral behavior, one might expect ethics professors to behave morally better than socially similar non-ethicists. Under the assumption that forms of political engagement such as voting have moral worth, we looked at the rate at which a sample of professional ethicists-and political philosophers as a subgroup of ethicists-voted in eight years' worth of e...

Do Ethicists Steal 1 RUNNING HEAD: Do Ethicists Steal More Books? Do Ethicists Steal More Books?

If explicit reasoning about morality promotes moral behavior, as Kohlberg and many ethicists have suggested, then one might expect ethics professors to behave particularly well. However, professional ethicists’ behavior has never been empirically studied. The present research examined the rates at which ethics books are missing from leading academic libraries, compared to other philosophy books...

Do ethicists steal more books ?

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Do Medicaid and Medicare Patients Sue Physicians More Often than Other Patients?

SUMMARY Fear of being sued for malpractice is often cited as one reason for the distressing trend of reduced physician participation in Medicaid and other publicly funded programs (8). Physicians in many specialties report practice changes in response to the threat of malpractice liability, including dropping services to medically " high-risk " patients. But the problem is particularly acute in...

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