Moral distress frequently arises for medical trainees exposed to end-of-life cases. We review the small literature on best practices for reducing moral distress in such cases and propose two areas to target for moral distress reduction: medical education and organizational ethics programs. Students require training in end-of-life dialogues and truthful prognostication, which are not generally a...

In recent years, we have seen a resurgence of the topic shame in philosophy and moral philosophy. The paper analyses as emotion contemporary moral-philosophical environmental discourse. Questions are articulated, which different contexts has already been studied them appear to be crucial for ethics applied ethics? article, author addresses concept by Sarah E. Fredericks (2021) considers questio...

Karma is a central feature of Buddhist ethics, but the question of its classification in terms of ethical theory has so far received little attention. Granting that karma is foundational to Buddhist ethics and arguing that what is fundamental to the Buddhist understanding of karma is the saṃskāric modification of the agent, this article relates the doctrine of karma as understood in Theravāda B...

Game theory as long as it is a study of interdependent rational choice, can be used to explain, to predict and evaluate human behavior in contexts where the outcome of action depends on what other agents choose to do. Game theory can be made relevant to ethics and can be used in moral and political philosophy, including economics, business and public policy areas.

Moral evolution theories have emphasized kinship, reciprocity, group selection, and equilibrium selection. Yet, moral virtues are also sexually attractive. Darwin suggested that sexual attractiveness may explain many aspects of human morality. This paper updates his argument by integrating recent research on mate choice, person perception, individual differences, costly signaling, and virtue et...

Researchers have attempted to integrate the fields of management and ethics for the past 50 years. Although the moral aspects of knowledge management have been studied, its philosophical attitude has been overshadowed. This work designs a philosophical background—in moral philosophy—for public knowledge management. To achieve the research goal, the relationships between human critical success f...

In this report, I will survey the dominant theories employed in the academic subdiscipline of business ethics, describing and critiquing each one. By “theories” I mean not only the various philosophical approaches which inform discourse and research in this field, but also the alternative paradigms to which those approaches pertain according to the following schema. I will adopt for this survey...

This paper is a prolegomenon to an ethics of conceptual engineering. Ethics construed as primarily concerned with reasons for action, not belief, and it argued that most such are be understood in terms their connection well-being. In the case engineering, this well-being engineer others. There alethic but they derivative, many philosophical norms applying within engineering itself, parsimony re...

Little has been done to assess veterinarians' moral judgment in relation to animal ethics issues. Following development of the VetDIT, a new moral judgment measure for animal ethics issues, this study aimed to refine and further validate the VetDIT, and to identify effects of teaching interventions on moral judgment and changes in moral judgment over time. VetDIT-V1 was refined into VetDIT-V2, ...

Inquiry into the what-it-is-likeness of concrete moral experience—moral phenomenology—has not generally been part of moral philosophy as practiced in the analytic tradition at least since G. E. Moore’s 1903 Principia Ethica.1 Although there FN:1 have been a few exceptions—including, most notably, Maurice Mandelbaum’s 1955 The Phenomenology of Moral Experience—and although analytic philosophers ...