Not unpredictably, Raanon Gillon's reactions to Teaching medical ethics: The cognitive-developmental view' included both. While these general concerns have been addressed in other contexts2-7, a brief specific response to Gillon's comments is appropriate for the readers of this Journal. Gillon's philosophical concerns appear to be that the cognitive-developmental approach to moral education is ...

This paper is a critical reflection on the teaching of the new Philosophy and Ethics course in a low socioeconomic context in Perth, Western Australia. It charts the successes and failures of the Philosophy and Ethics course, leading to the eventual demise of the subject at the end of 2010. We frame this reflection within Deleuzean notions of geophilosophy to advocate for a Philosophy and Ethic...

this paper will discuss some new implications of whitehead’s philosophy for environmental thought.[i] they fall under three headings: 1. the interrelations between three ways of thinking about the environment: bioregionalism, land ethics, and the philosophy of organism.  2.  the implications of whitehead’s philosophy of organism for environmental aesthetics.  3.  the implications of whitehead’s...

kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate god and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. but since kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. this article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

The essays in this book are meant to serve as an introduction to those ideas of Ayn Rand, which are of particular relevance to business people. Rand was known as a spirited defender of the laissez-faire free enterprise system. It is less commonly known that Rand was also deeply committed to the centrality of the enterprise of philosophy for both public and private life. The essays in this book ...

Marco Stier*, Bettina Schoene-Seifert, Markus Rüther and Sebastian Muders 1 Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany 2 Ethics in the Neurosciences, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany 3 Department of Philosophy, Center for Ethics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland *Correspondence: marco....

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