Reflections on Making Decisions

Limping is no sin: reflections on Making Health Care Decisions.

Reflections on Decision Making*

The annual meetings of the National Academy of Arbitrators, like similar meetings of other learned and professional societies, are usually given over to discussions of general principles. Occasionally, but not often, at such meetings a session will be devoted to an analysis in depth of a single case. Even in such instances, however, interest is more apt to center upon the principles which were ...

Reflections on morality, ethics, and bioethics decisions.

From the presumed biological evolutionary origins of a urmorality, there eventually developed a conscious set of morality concepts and rules that became less immediate and more abstract, and increasingly shaped by social factors. Today the concepts and precepts of morality have come to form a complex system in which each specialized professional ethics respond with a certain degree of latitude ...

Reflections on Decision Making under Uncertainty

Making Decisions Based on Autobiographical Memories

A new human intracranial study by Foster et al. (2015) sheds light on the electrophysiological correlates of intrinsic and task-evoked functional connectivity in lateral and medial parietal cortex.