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Startup Ethics: Ethically Responsible Conduct of Scientists and Engineers at Theranos
Studies of ethical challenges that can confront practicing scientists and engineers in the entrepreneurial stage of the overarching...
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Paint Matter and Trace: Reflections on Horia Bernea’s Art
Horia Bernea (1938–2000) has been a major figure in Romanian art during his lifetime, and the importance conferred to him has not faded after his...
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Inferring Reasons. Internal and External Reasons in Practical Cognition
Morality is the effort to guide one’s conduct by reasons, that is, to do what there are the best reasons for doing. From a cognitive perspective,...
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Medicine, emotience, and reason
Medicine is faced with a number of intractable modern challenges that can be understood in terms of hyper-intellectualization; a compassion crisis,...
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Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al.
We analyze the “Logical fallacies and reasonable debates in invasion biology: a response to Guiaşu and Tindale” article by Frank et al., and also...
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Worries About Philosopher Experts
Well-functioning modern democracies depend largely on expert knowledge and expert arrangements, but this expertise reliance also causes severe...
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The Epistemology of Placebo Effect
The beliefs involved in the placebo effect are often assumed to be self-fulfilling, i.e. the truth of these beliefs would merely require the patient...
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Cryonics, euthanasia, and the doctrine of double effect
In 1989, Thomas Donaldson requested the California courts to allow physicians to hasten his death. Donaldson had been diagnosed with brain cancer,...
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The Legal Repercussions of Institutional Conflict of Interest
Universities are not required to declare conflicts of interest. Yet, universities obviously have a major conflict of interest when they investigate...
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Psychology, Equality, and the Forgetting of Motivations
I hope to demonstrate the value of a close reading Williams’s ‘Internal and External Reasons’, and to provide a theory of error regarding the...
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Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206...
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Individualism-Holism Debate in the Social Sciences: Political Implications and Disciplinary Politics
The debate between the individualist and the holist understanding of social items (social entities, events, institutions, phenomena and so on) has a...
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Exploring the Gray Area: Similarities and Differences in Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) Across Main Areas of Research
This paper explores the gray area of questionable research practices (QRPs) between responsible conduct of research and severe research misconduct in...
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Particularism
Generalist moral theories speak in terms of all people at all places and times, while Aristotle argues that this broad brush can omit details of a...
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The Ethics of Technology: From Thinking Big to Small—and Big Again
The trajectory of critical ethical reflection on technology has been from big issues (eighteenth century arguments for social revolution responding...
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Emotions and Rationality
The starting point of my inquiry is the important uncertainty in relevant scientific communities concerning the nature of emotions. In consequence,...
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Taking truth seriously: the case of generics
By discussing a large number of different examples, this paper argues that the class of so-called generic statements is much more heterogeneous that...
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Dark Data as the New Challenge for Big Data Science and the Introduction of the Scientific Data Officer
Many studies in big data focus on the uses of data available to researchers, leaving without treatment data that is on the servers but of which...
