Ought Conscientious Refusals to Implement Reverse Triage Decisions be Accommodated?

Conscientious refusals to refer: findings from a national physician survey.

BACKGROUND Regarding controversial medical services, many have argued that if physicians cannot in good conscience provide a legal medical intervention for which a patient is a candidate, they should refer the requesting patient to an accommodating provider. This study examines what US physicians think a doctor is obligated to do when the doctor thinks it would be immoral to provide a referral....

There ought to be a law?

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints 1

Be Conscientious, Express your Sentiment!

This paper addresses the issue of how personality recognition can be helpful for sentiment analysis. We exploited the corpus for sentiment analysis released for the SEMEVAL 2013, we automatically annotated personality labels by means of an unsupervised system for personality recognition. We validated the automatic annotation on a small set of Twitter users, whose personality types have been col...

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints (Extended Abstract)

Deontic logic is the logic to reason about ideal and actual behaviour. Besides the traditional role as an underlying logic for law and ethics (for a survey see [MW]), in the realm of computer science, deontic logic has been proposed as a logic for the specification of legal expert systems [BMT87],[Sta80], authorization mechanisms [ML85], decision support systems [Kd.,88], [Lee88b],[Lee88a], dat...