Psychopaths are notorious for their antisocial and immoral behavior, yet experimental studies have typically failed to identify deficits in their capacities for explicit moral judgment. We tested 20 criminal psychopaths and 25 criminal nonpsychopaths on a moral judgment task featuring hypothetical scenarios that systematically varied an actor's intention and the action's outcome. Participants w...

Baryons are described as bound states of quarks and scalar as well as axialvector diquarks. In order to effectively parametrize confinement several ansaetze for the dressing functions of the constituent propagators are used. The corresponding results for electromagnetic and strong form factors differ only slightly. On the other hand observables from production processes show the permissibility ...

A lthough there are exceptions, the principle of primum nil nocere remains the cornerstone of the practice of medicine. In the well known handbook, Goodman and Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics a case is presented which raises doubts about the permissibility of offlabel administration of certain drugs to healthy troops as a preventive measure. The following citation from this h...

Some have claimed that moral bioenhancement undermines freedom and authenticity – thereby making problematic or undesirable whereas others said does not undermine salvaging its ethical permissibility. These debates are characterized by a couple of features. First, positive relationship is assumed to hold between these agency-related concepts the permissibility bioenhancement. Second, centered a...

Permissibility of placebo controls in psychiatric research is raising everlasting controversies. The main ethical issue remains: whether, when, under what conditions, and to what extent is it justifiable to disregard subject's present (best) interest for the presumably "greater" ones. In relation to this main ethical concern, two distinct arguments arose: proponents of placebo controls trials (...

Many people believe that it is permissible for people who are suffering from terminal illnesses to commit suicide or even that such people have a right to commit suicide. Some have also argued that it follows that it is permissible for them, or that they have a right, to use the assistance of another person. First, I assume that it is permissible for a person to commit suicide and ask whether i...