With pressure on defence budgets, the military have a requirement to revisit the value of training, education and experiential learning in order to inform future balance of investment decisions. This paper introduces new approaches to the value of training, education and experiential learning through use of intermediate decision-based measures. It discusses previous research and experiments des...

Omsorgsutøvarar møter dagleg etiske dilemma, og ei innebygd handlingsforventning fører ofte til at ein må ta val basert på personleg intuisjon meir enn systematisk refleksjon. Hensikten med artikkelen er å sjå kva dygder som hjelper styrker omsorgsutøvaren i møte dilemma den kliniske kvardagen. Det vart gjennomført eitt fokusgruppeintervju seks omsorgsutøvarar frå ulike avdelingar sjukeheim, da...

In antiquity we encounter a distinction of two types of hypothetical syllogisms. One type are the 'mixed hypothetical syllogisms'. The other type is the one to which the present paper is devoted. These arguments went by the name of 'wholly hypothetical syllogisms'. They were thought to make up a self-contained system of valid arguments. Their paradigm case consists of two conditionals as premis...

'Aristotelian logic', as it was taught from late antiquity until the 20th century, commonly included a short presentation of the argument forms modus (ponendo) ponens, modus (tollendo) tollens, modus ponendo tollens, and modus tollendo ponens. In late antiquity, arguments of these forms were generally classified as 'hypothetical syllogisms'. However, Aristotle did not discuss such arguments, no...

How do professionals in medicine and health care know what to do? How should they make the right or a wise decision in morally complex and uncertain situations? And what is the role of the patient in this decision making process? The first five articles in this issue focus on these and similar questions, be it in very different ways. Ricca Edmondson returns to the classic Aristo-telian notion o...

traditionally associated with Aristotle. It is written by an academic philosopher and a psychiatrist. ‘Virtue ethics’ holds that right conduct is founded on traits of character rather than adherence to rules, although these may also have their place. Such traits can be developed by training and practice (habituation). Having been eclipsed for some time by the rival approaches of consequentialis...