Robillard and Feng highlight incongruence between patient preferences and the procedural aspects of research ethics as they relate to protocols for dementia research. Their findings break ground for a reassessment of how research ethics, researchers, and participants (including patients and caregivers) approach participation in dementia research. However, it is unclear whether patient preferenc...

This article critically examines some of the inconsistency objections that have been put forward by John Broome, Larry Temkin and others against the so-called “person-affecting,” or “person-based,” restriction in normative ethics, including “extra people” problems and a version of the nonidentity problem from Kavka and Parfit. Certain Pareto principles and a version of the “mere addition parado...

My original paper suggested that an ethics ofcare which failed to specify how, and about what, to care would be devoid of normative and descriptive content. Bradshaw's approach provides such a specification and is, therefore, not devoid ofsuch content. However, as all ethical approaches suggest something about the 'what' and 'how' of care, they are all 'ethics of care' in this broader sense. Th...