Much of the literature on time inconsistency has studied the external commitment devices that individuals use to address their self-control problems: tying oneself to the mast, staying away from temptation, holding illiquid assets, or “asking for controls” from others. This paper, by contrast, focuses on internal commitment mechanisms or “personal rules” (diets, exercise regimens, resolutions, ...

some point at which different societies and cultures make a judgement as to whether an individual is normal or abnormal. Those considered abnormal are variously labelled exceptional, different, disabled, or deviant. While all societies have faced the fact of individuals who differed physically, intellectually, or socially, how these differences have been addressed mirrors the vibrant and shifti...

For this open issue of the Etikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal Applied Ethics, we put together a broad mix different articles tackling current important issues in field.

Background: Elective Abortion means termination of pregnancy by drugs or manipulation. The aim of this research is to evaluate the challenges of elective abortion in Iranian society. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study is done on 113 pregnant women wanted to do abortion who referred to Dr Rasekh clinic that were studied through a questionnaire with six questions. Collection of informa...

Recently, many critics have argued that disgust is a morally harmful emotion, and that it should play no role in our moral and legal reasoning. Here we defend disgust as a morally beneficial moral capacity. We believe that a variety of liberal norms have been inappropriately imported into both moral psychology and ethical studies of disgust: disgust has been associated with conservative authors...

Actions can be moral or immoral, surely, but can also be prudent or imprudent, rude or polite, sportsmanlike or unsportsmanlike, and so on. The fact that diverse methods of evaluating action exist seems to give rise to a further question: what distinguishes moral evaluation in particular? In this article, my concern is methodological. I argue that any account of the distinctiveness of morality ...

Prior functional imaging studies of moral processing have utilized 'explicit' moral tasks that involve moral deliberation (e.g., reading statements such as 'he shot the victim' and rating the moral appropriateness of the behavior) or 'implicit' moral tasks that involve moral intuition (e.g., reading similar statements and memorizing them for a test but not rating their moral appropriateness). A...