Letting the World In: Empirical Approaches to Ethics

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The limits to empirical ethics

Mom, Alzheimer's and the ethics of letting go.

Running Head : Letting Structure Emerge Letting Structure Emerge : Connectionist and Dynamical Systems Approaches to Understanding Cognition

Connectionist and dynamical systems approaches view human thought, language and behavior as arising, in many cases, as the emergent consequences of simple subor non-cognitive processes. We view the entities that serve as the basis for symbolic approaches, including structured statistical approaches, as potentially misleading, illusory constructs that may, in many instances, have no real basis i...

ethical theories and approaches to medical ethics

biomedical ethics is a branch of professional or practical ethics that examine the moral aspects of profession of medicine. every professional ethics due its issues and problems determine an especial theory and principles. in this article after referring to the three branches of ethics and describing important schools of ethical theory we have explained the six main approaches to biomedical eth...