Attributions of what we shall call normative responsibilities play a central role in everyday moral thinking. It is commonly thought, for example, that parents are responsible for the wellbeing of their children, and that this has important normative consequences. Depending on context, it might mean that parents are morally required to bring their children to the doctor, feed them well, attend ...

The paper focuses on the rapid development of the digital culture and the challenges it imposes to human creativity. It analyses e-learning, digital entertainment, digital art and the issues of creativity and improvisation. It also presents a classification of the levels in the creative structure including hardware and software tools; product developers; creators and end users. Special attentio...

This article explores how we can enhance our understanding of the moral responsibilities in daily, plural practices of responsive evaluation. It introduces an interpretive framework for understanding the moral aspects of evaluation practice. The framework supports responsive evaluators to better understand and handle their moral responsibilities. A case is introduced to illustrate our argument....

Torrey and Yolken should be commended for adding to the burgeoning reports in the recent psychiatric literature describing the genocide committed by our colleagues during the Nazi era. That it has taken close to 60 years to confront this dark period in the history of psychiatry does not diminish the importance of finally dealing with it. It is painfully shameful that close to 300 000 individual...

introduction: the aim of this study is to examine the hospital manager’s job in order to identify their educational needs in esfahan in 1382. to do so, first, we tried to become familiar with the current situation by using the experiences of hospital managers in esfahan and then we made an attempt to determine the optimal situation by asking the views of management specialists. finally, the two...

Responsibility assignment modelling is concerned with developing a picture of how the responsibilities in a socio-technical system are distributed across the different automated elements and actors in that system. At this stage, we are not concerned with the details of the responsibilities themselves, nor with what the actors in the system have to do to discharge these responsibilities. Rather,...

Teachers in the non-confessional Swedish subject religious education have conflicting responsibilities to convey values and facilitate critical thinking. The research regarding these has often been considered a theoretical problem discussion concerned solutions. However, is not only theoretical. It fact also practical that many teachers frequently encounter. overall aim of this paper thus draw ...

This article focuses on the views and experiences of professionals providing specialised services to disabled children their families. It is part a larger research project that investigates gap between policy ideals service provision for young families in Iceland. Contrary official policies, earlier findings based families’ perspectives reported strain stress from fragmented inflexible services...

The first evaluation criterion is the level of confidence that dismantlement has taken place produced by each option. The level of confidence that a particular monitoring option provides that warhead dismantlement is actually occurring depends on the level of information obtained from that particular option and the ease with which that option can be spoofed. Short of direct observation or remot...