IS CONTEMPORARY LUXURY MORALLY ACCEPTABLE?

Can deceiving patients be morally acceptable?

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Sham neurosurgery in patients with Parkinson's disease: is it morally acceptable?

For a few decades, patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been treated with intracerebral transplantations of fetal mesencephalic tissue. The results of open trials have been variable. Double blind, placebo-controlled studies have recently been started in order to further investigate the efficacy of this new medical technique. In this paper we challenge the need for sham surgery in neurotr...

Is It Morally Acceptable for a System to Lie to Persuade Me?

Given the fast rise of increasingly autonomous artificial agents and robots, a key acceptability criterion will be the possible moral implications of their actions. In particular, intelligent persuasive systems (systems designed to influence humans via communication) constitute a highly sensitive topic because of their intrinsically social nature. Still, ethical studies in this area are rare an...

Is Coercive Treatment of Offenders Morally Acceptable ? - On the deficiency of the debate

Is it morally acceptable to instigate criminal offenders to participate in rehabilitative treatment by offering treatment in return for early release from prison? Some theorists have supported such treatment schemes by pointing to the beneficial consequences that follow from the treatment. Others have suggested that the schemes are unacceptably coercive, which implies that consent becomes an il...

How Different Is New Luxury From Old Luxury ?