In the past thirty years environmental ethics has emerged as one of the most vibrant and exciting areas of applied philosophy. Several journals and hundreds of books testify to its growing importance inside and outside philosophical circles. But with all of this scholarly output, it is arguably the case that environmental ethics is not living up to its promise of providing a philosophical contr...

There is general agreement that engineering students should receive ethics instruction as a part of their undergraduate education. However, there are diverse opinions on how engineering ethics instruction should be carried out. Philosophy of ethics, the original approach, emphasizes normative ideals and abstract principles. The new case studies approach focuses on a number of real and hypotheti...

This article examines the role of professional judgement in the ethical decision-making process. Drawing on the personalist philosophy of John MacMurray, and the CCA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice, the authors propose that a social constructivist approach involving dialogue and relationship complement the current internal psychologically based ethical decision-making models. An examin...

1.Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 2.Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 3.Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA 4.Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City, MO, U...

______________________________________________________ Edward Reichman is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor of Philosophy and History of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM) of Yeshiva University, where he teaches Jewish medical ethics. He received his rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva Univ...

John D. Medaglia ∗, Perry Zurn † ‡ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong § Danielle S. Bassett ¶ ‖ ∗Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA,†Center for Curiosity, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104 USA,‡Department of Philosophy, American University, Washington, DC, 20016 USA,§Department of Philosophy and Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, ...