Abstract Ascribing autonomous status to agents is a valuable practice. As such, we ought care about how engage in practices of autonomy ascription. However, disagreement between first-personal experiences an agent's and third-personal determinations their presents challenges ethical epistemic concern. My view that insights from dialogical rather than nondialogical account give us the resources ...

Is personal Internet use at work primarily the domain of lower-status employees, or do individuals higher up the organizational hierarchy engage in this activity at equal or even greater levels? We posit that higher workplace status is associated with significant incentives and greater opportunities for personal Internet use. We test this hypothesis using data collected via a recent national te...

This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction using data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study. The determinants of interest include actual pay, relative pay, hours of work, job autonomy and several personal characteristics. We also investigate the determinants of satisfaction with pay conditional on a worker's satisfaction with other domains of job satisfaction, such ...

Infertility causes significant psychosocial morbidity by reducing both personal sense of wellbeing (health) and capacity to exercise self determination over reproduction (autonomy). As the primary moral responsibilities of health professionals are restoration of health and respecting patients’ autonomy, it follows that preserving fertility or treating infertility has sound ethical justification...

We investigate how making highly consequential, highly undesirable decisions affects emotions and preference for autonomy. We examine individuals facing real or hypothetical decisions to discontinue their infants’ life support who either choose personally or have physicians choose for them. Findings from a multidisciplinary approach consisting of a qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews an...