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The Ontology of Causation: A Carnapian-Pragmatist Approach
Metaphysicians of causation have long debated the existence of primitive causal modalities (e.g., powers), with reductionists and realists taking...
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Historical and Analytical Justifications for Revisions to the United States Constitution
Justifications for term limits for Congressional members and federal judges; merit extension of eligibility to run for office again; fines or other...
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Secondary Use of Health Data for Medical AI: A Cross-Regional Examination of Taiwan and the EU
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of data governance mechanisms concerning the secondary use of health data in Taiwan and the European Union...
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Life and Mind
The physical world maintains its order and balance through physical symmetries. These symmetries are invariant laws that hold in all places and at...
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Reframing the Issue in 13.18 of the Analects of Confucius: Family Privileges in Criminal Litigation and the Confucian Insight
The sheep case in Analects 13.18 has generated a heated debate in contemporary Chinese philosophy for more than a decade. One side in this debate...
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Solutions to Gender Balance in STEM Fields Through Support, Training, Education and Mentoring: Report of the International Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Task Group
The aim of this article is to offer a view of the current status of women in medical physics and biomedical engineering, while focusing on solutions...
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Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency
In exploring skilled performance in Contact Improvisation (CI), we utilize an enactive ethnographic methodology combined with an interdisciplinary...
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Exploring what is reasonable: uncovering moral reasoning of vascular surgeons in daily practice
BackgroundVascular surgery offers a range of treatments to relieve pain and ulcerations, and to prevent sudden death by rupture of blood vessels. The...
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Institutional design and moral conflict in health care priority-setting
Priority-setting policy-makers often face moral and political pressure to balance the conflicting motivations of efficiency and rescue/non-abandonment ...
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Richard Rorty: A Short Introduction
The essential offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty. At the same time, it provides a brief introduction to the main features of...
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Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging...
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Organizations, Virtue Ethics, and Narrative Identity
A key idea of virtue ethics is the idea that people’s narrative identity is basic to their good. After considering the notion of narrative identity...
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Reasons-responsiveness, modality and rational blind spots
Many think it is plausible that agents enjoy freedom and responsibility with respect to their actions in virtue of being reasons-responsive. Extant...
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Mission Statements of Public Accounting Firms: Antecedents and Consequences of Professional Vs. Commercial Orientations
Public accounting firms must balance conflicting goals, including returning a profit for their owners (commercialism) and serving the public interest...
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How Corporate Social (Ir)Responsibility Influences Employees’ Private Prosocial Behavior: An Experimental Study
The micro-level corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature has broadly demonstrated the effects of CSR on employees’ behavior but has mostly...
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The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Create Value for Stakeholders
The essay explains why society should view social responsibility as an obligation to create value for stakeholders instead of simply making a profit....
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Conceptions of Health and Disease in Plants and Animals
This chapter analyzes theoretical conceptions of health and disease for plants and animals. Compared to human health, the discussion of these...
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Temporality and Meaningful Entrepreneurship
Temporality is an under-researched area in entrepreneurship and business ethics, even though entrepreneurs are particularly affected by a fast-paced...
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Enacted institutions, participatory sense-making and social norms
This paper argues that institutions are higher-level autonomous systems enacted by patterns of participatory sense-making. Therefore, unlike in the...
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Hume on the Monetary Fallacy of Monotonic Counterfactuals
I focus on the commonly shared view that Hume’s monetary theory is inconsistent. I review several attempts to solve the alleged inconsistency in...