Ethical disputes arise over differences in the content of the ethical beliefs people hold on either side of an issue. One person may believe that it is wrong to have an abortion for financial reasons, whereas another may believe it to be permissible. But, the magnitude and difficulty of such disputes may also depend on other properties of the ethical beliefs in question-in particular, how objec...

BACKGROUND Opposing groups of scientists have recently engaged in a heated dispute over a preliminary European Commission (EC) report on its regulatory policy for endocrine-disrupting chemicals. In addition to the scientific issues at stake, a central question has been how scientists can maintain their objectivity when informing policy makers. OBJECTIVES Drawing from current ethical, conceptu...

Objectivity in the science of risk plays a monumental role in the projection of the benefits from health and safety regulations, which constitute the majority of total reported benefits of all federal regulations. Claims concerning the accuracy of regulatory risk assessments have been untestable so far in that they focus on whether a risk assessment overor underestimates the risk of exposure to...

Validity, objectivity, crisis in institutions, stability, unpredictability Social institutions are considered as generally stable entities but, at the same time, prone to unpredictable and even dramatical changes. The paper draws some considerations on this issue by means of an analysis of the notions of validity and objectivity, seen in the light of the critical situations that institutions ma...

The Great East Japan Earthquake was a tragic event requiring critical media involvement. Since the media played an important role in conveying factual information, journalists expressed feeling that it was difficult to guarantee the objectivity of their coverage. As media coverage constructs a socio-culturally shared reality among its audience, an examination of the objectivity and emotionality...

The emphasis on the limitations of objectivity, in specific guises and networks, has been a continuing theme of contemporary analytic philosophy for the past few decades. The popular sport of baiting feminist philosophers into pointing to what's left out of objective knowledge, or into describing what methods, exactly, they would offer to replace the powerful "objective" methods grounding scien...

Assets recognition is a new concept, assimilated in the process of harmonisation of the Romanian accounting regulations with the European Directives and the International Standards of Financial Reporting. The international normalizing document does not indicate a measurement unit for the recognition of a fixed asset element, the application of the professional reason for circumstances which are...

I I remember a picture in the air and sunlight style of painting of the nineteenth century. In the foreground was to be seen the back of a horse, the head of which the imagination had to add beyond the frame of the picture ; in the background shone colored splotches which 'one could identify as ladies and gentlemen under a tent . But all that was incidental . The main thing was the bright splot...

The professional norms of good journalism include in particular the following: truthfulness, objectivity, neutrality and detachment. For Public Relations these norms are at best irrelevant. The only thing that matters is success. And this success is measured in terms ofachieving specific communication aims which are "externally defined by a client, host organization or particular groups ofstake...