Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has dramatically changed the way organizations communicate, understand, and interact with their potential consumers. In context of this trend, ethical considerations advertising when applying AI should be core question for marketers. This paper discusses six dominant algorithmic purchase decision pathways that align philosophies online customers buying a pr...

Comparative benefits provided by basic social strategies, i.e., collectivism and egoism, are investigated within the framework of democratic collective decisions. DOI: 10.1134/S0005117910060202

The relationship between ethics and science has been discussed within the framework of continuity versus discontinuity theories, each of which can take several forms. Continuity theorists claim that ethics is a science or at least that it has deep similarities with the modus operandi of science. Discontinuity theorists reject such equivalency, while at the same time many of them claim that ethi...

The objectives of this study are to explore the associations and interactions spirituality, adversity quotient (AQ), ethical decision making (EDM) accounting managers in contexts financial management corporate social responsibility. Additionally, aims evaluate predictive roles spirituality (AQ) on their making. A self-administered questionnaire was utilised collect data from 510 via quantitativ...

Formal clinical ethics review first developed in the USA and most hospitals there have structures in place. This is often a clinical ethics committee. Developments have been slower in the UK, where there has been uncertainty and variability about the role of clinical ethics committees. Even in the USA, their exact role is uncertain. Although we now have a good idea of the mechanisms for ethical...

Research ethics review is an important process, designed to protect participants in medical research. However, it is increasingly criticised for failing to meet its aims. Here, two researchers reflect on their experiences of applying for ethical approval of observational research in clinical settings. They highlight some problems faced by reviewers and researchers and propose a two-stage ethica...

A set of arguments shows that either the Repugnant Conclusion and its variants are true or the better-than relation isn't transitive. Which is it? This is the most important question in population ethics. The answer will point the way to Parfit's elusive Theory X. In many ways, Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons is the natural successor to Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics. Sidgwick's book...