MORAL PARTICULARISM AND SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE

Moral Particularism and Transduction

Particularism and Generalism: How AI can Help us to Better Understand Moral Cognition

Particularism and Generalism refer to families of attitudes towards moral principles. This paper explores the suggestion that neural network models of cognition may aid in vindicating particularist views of moral reasoning. Neural network models of moral case classification are presented, and the contrast case method for testing and revising case classifications is considered. It is concluded t...

Moral Argument: Theory and Practice

Fertilisation and moral status: a scientific perspective.

The debate about the moral status of the embryo has gained new impetus because of the advances in reproductive technology that have made early human embryo experimentation a possibility, and because of the public concern that this arouses. Several philosophical arguments claiming that fertilisation is the event that accords moral status to the embryo were initially formulated in the context of ...

Moral distress and moral courage in everyday nursing practice.

In this article the author examines the concepts of moral distress and moral courage within the context of nursing practice. Examples of challenging healthcare situations from the United Kingdom and Ireland are discussed in the light of the examination of these two concepts. The examples illuminate features of healthcare situations that need to be considered in relation to different organisatio...