Abstract For Hans Albert, what is to be deemed morally right or wrong could either based on human conventions (decisions) findings of facts (cognitions). As an ethical non-cognitivist Albert emphasizes that decision-based are constitutive ‘morals/ethics’. Yet, it has been claimed Popper’s falsificationism applies prescriptive moral theories roughly as does descriptive empirical and this analogy...

This year’s MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation BioMAN Summit will focus on Real Time Release, and posters on topics related to the general theme are welcome for consideration. Read full details, including information regarding student poster prizes, here. While this call for posters focuses on the applications of Real Time Release (RTR) to biopharmaceutical manufacturing, it will consider res...

This paper examines the dual welfare system in India and the role of corporations as providers of social protection. The aim is to ascertain who is driving and providing social security, education, and health to informal and formal sector workers and their families. It further attempts to illuminate why corporations are taking steps to address some of welfare needs of the greater population as ...

The ability to choose freely is captured under the umbrella concept of "free will," which designates an ability that plays a crucial role in most understandings of autonomy and responsibility and, thus, bears significance for moral practice and moral theory. Some claim that neuroscience research challenges the existence of free will/voluntary action while some who adopt stronger eliminativist s...

Stephen Darwall has developed an account of moral obligations as grounded in “second-personal reasons,” which was conversation with early modern “theological voluntarists” who were divine command theorists. For Darwall, morality does not require accountability to God; humans autonomous agents are the source obligations. In this paper, I try show that is vulnerable some objections made against t...