1474-7065/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.pce.2010.07.033 ⇑ Tel.: +434 982 2004; fax: +434 924 4306. E-mail address: [email protected] 1 This article is drawn from Cohen (2009a), where re of the activities discussed here. Interested readers migh Valenĉius (2004), and McNeill and Winiwarter (2006 science-environment nexus as understood through att soil. McNeill (2003) not...

There was a young lady of Kent Whose nose was awfully bent. She followed her nose One day, I suppose, And no one knows which way she went. A typical Limerick? I think that this one portrays an allegorical situation reminiscent of the pursuit along the way 'Toward a Science of Consciousness'. The route the young lady set out on appeared to be so twisting, winding, meandering, sinuous, and tortuo...

Moral pluralism is the norm in contemporary society. Even the best philosophical arguments rarely persuade moral opponents who differ at a foundational level. This has been vividly illustrated in contemporary debates in bioethics surrounding contentious issues such as abortion and euthanasia. It is readily apparent that bioethics discourse lacks an empirical explanation for the broad difference...

We investigated whether and why the use of a foreign language influences moral judgment. We studied the trolley and footbridge dilemmas, which propose an action that involves killing one individual to save five. In line with prior work, the use of a foreign language increased the endorsement of such consequentialist actions for the footbridge dilemma, but not for the trolley dilemma. But contra...

This research explored people’s reactions to targets who “went too far” to support noble causes. We hypothesized that observers’ moral mandates would shape their perceptions of others’ advocacy, even when that advocacy was transgressive, that is, when it used norm-violating means (i.e., lying) to achieve a preferred end. Observers were expected to accept others’ advocacy, independent of its cre...

When medical practitioners act as expert witnesses for the plaintiff in contested illness lawsuits, they can be stigmatized by their professional community. Drawing on ethnographic research surrounding the condition multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) in Australia, this article focuses on: how plaintiff experts specialize; their rationale for deviance from the professional norm; and structura...

moral hazards are the result of an expansive range of factors mostly originating in the patients’ roles. the objective of the present study was to investigate patient incentives for moral hazards using the experiences of experts of basic iranian insurance organizations. this was a qualitative research. data were collected through semi-structured interviews. the study population included all exp...

The immediate goals of our study were twofold: (1) we sought to create a natural resource baseline for each of the communities in the area of investigation by utilizing GIS technology to monitor land use activities, to inventory plant and animal habitats as well as cultural resource features, and to redefine territorial boundaries. This technical analysis was then used by the tribes to plan for...