Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in initiatives to expand ethics instruction in higher education. Numerous empirical studies have examined the possible effects on students of discipline-based ethics instruction, such business ethics and medical ethics. Nevertheless, the largest share of college ethics instruction has traditionally fallen to philosophy departments, and there is a pau...

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

Annual conference ESPMH, 2008 XXIInd International Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (together with the Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu). Theme: ‘‘European bioethics in a global context’’. Date: August 20–23, 2008. Place: Tartu, Estonia. Abstracts should be submitted before January 1, 2008. For more information: Bert Gordijn, PhD, Secretary of t...

The book Kant and Applied Ethics: The Uses and Limits of Kant’s Practical Philosophy of Matthew C. Altman is a true refreshment in the world of Kantian scholarship. It is a deep exegetical achievement in reading of Kant’s thought and its actualisation for modern (bio)ethical problems at the same time. As it is noted in the title, the author tries to present and explain the modalities of connect...

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions. Philosophical ethics differs from legal, religious, cultural and personal approaches to ethics by seeking to conduct the study of morality through a rational, secular outlook that is grounded in notions of human happiness or well-being. A major advantage of a philosophical approach to ethics...

Although it is well known that Schopenhauer claimed that Buddhism closely reflected his own philosophy, this claim was largely ignored until the mid-late Twentieth century. Most commentators on Schopenhauer (with some recent exceptions) since then have mentioned his Buddhist affinities but have been quite broad and general in their treatment. I feel that any general comparison of Schopenhauer’s...

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This book aims to enrich current debates on the ethics of disclosing genetic information. It comprises a collection of essays written by contributors with a range of disciplinary backgrounds: bioethics, genetic medicine, medical anthropology, philosophy, law and sociology, to cite a few. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the volume advocates for a theoretical and methodological extensi...

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