In “Modern Moral Philosophy,” Anscombe argued that the moral vocabulary does not correspond to any concept in Aristotelian ethics, it derives from a confused response ethics of divine command, and is literally meaningless. This essay contends was wrong. Morality corresponds Aristotle’s general sense “justice,” which complete virtue relation others. But Anscombe’s question remains: what for an a...

We study the problem of priority inversion in distributed real-time and embedded systems and propose a solution based on a distributed version of the priority inheritance protocol (PIP). Previous approaches to priority inversions in distributed systems use variations of the priority ceiling protocol (PCP), originally designed for centralized systems as a modification of PIP that also prevents d...

the questionnaire of morality in biotechnological research that has been drafted by this writer includes four sections dealing with various aspects of a research in this field. the first section contains general questions such as the aim and the anticipated achievement(s) of the research. the second section includes question concerning the subject. regarding the human being as the subject of re...

The idea that empathy provides an important developmental precursor to moral decision making possesses significant conceptual appeal. However, the idea of a necessary, diachronic relation between empathy and morality has been rejected recently (by Prinz 2011, amongst others). This paper reassesses the strength of the claim that empathy is developmentally necessary for (at least some forms of) m...

The theme of this special issue is “Is Morality Universal, and Should the Law Care?” For me, this question provokes the further question of what morality and the law are. That is what most of this essay is about. The last two sections address the initial question, primarily dealing with laying out its multiple ambiguity. Few of its readings have easy answers; the best I can do in the present di...

A clash of intuitions: The current state of nonmonotonic multiple inheritance systems. 13 6 Conclusion We have looked at the relationship between four logic programming-based formalisms that employ a priority relation among rules and take a sceptical approach to inference. Three, defeasible logic, LPwNF and courteous logic programs, belong to the same \school" while priority logic takes a funda...

This paper uses (tele)presence concepts to explore the practical and philosophical implications of the simulation argument: the notion that individuals may be trapped within manufactured realities. After describing a series of hypothetical simulation scenarios, key distinguishing dimensions of the scenarios are considered and implications for epistemology, religion and morality, mortality, and ...