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The Moral Agent: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
Despite the moral underpinnings of Karl Popper’s philosophy, he has not presented a well-established moral theory for critical rationalism (CR). This...
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Resultant moral luck and the scope of moral responsibility
Resultant moral luck occurs whenever aspects of an agent’s moral responsibility are affected by luck pertaining to the outcomes of their actions....
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S. Clarke, H. Zohny and J. Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN: 978-0-19-289407-6
“Rethinking moral status” provides a forum for philosophers to reason on the usual presuppositions and intuitions about moral status, especially now...
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Social Systems as Moral Agents: A Systems Approach to Moral Agency in Business
In the context of business, interactions between individuals generate social systems that emerge anywhere within a corporation or in its relations...
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Blameless Moral Criticism – the Case of Moral Disappointment
In discussing the ways in which we hold each other accountable for immoral conduct, philosophers have often focused on blame, aiming to specify...
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The effect and comparison of training in ethical decision-making through lectures and group discussions on moral reasoning, moral distress and moral sensitivity in nurses: a clinical randomized controlled trial
BackgroundEthical decision‑making and behavior of nurses are major factors that can affect the quality of nursing care. Moral development of nurses...
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An empirical investigation into moral challenges of (breaching) confidentiality and needs for ethics support when facilitating moral case deliberation
Ethics support staff help others to deal with moral challenges. However, they themselves can also experience moral challenges such as issues...
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Moral Encroachment, Symmetry, and Believing Against the Evidence
It is widely held that our beliefs can be epistemically faultless despite being morally flawed. Theories of moral encroachment challenge this,...
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Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress
Many believe that moral education can cause moral progress. At first glance, this makes sense. A major goal of moral education is the improvement of...
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Blame for me and Not for Thee: Status Sensitivity and Moral Responsibility
In our day-to-day lives, we form responsibility judgements about one another – but we are imperfect beings, and our judgments can be mistaken. This...
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A Moral Bind? — Autonomous Weapons, Moral Responsibility, and Institutional Reality
In “Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems—a Moral Gambit” (2022), Mariarosaria Taddeo and Alexander Blanchard...
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Moral Status
Moral status refers to a value recognized as belonging or ascribed to a particular entity according to which its protection is a moral and often...
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War, Reciprocity and the Moral Equality of Combatants
In this article I address differences between myself and Uwe Steinhoff in relation to the moral principle of reciprocity and its implications for the...
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When Moral Talk Becomes Profitable
Should businesses engage in moral talk when it becomes profitable? Due to their particular position of visibility, it is reasonable to acknowledge...
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Generating the Moral Agency to Report Peers’ Counterproductive Work Behavior in Normal and Extreme Contexts: The Generative Roles of Ethical Leadership, Moral Potency, and Psychological Safety
Reporting peers’ counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) is important for maintaining an ethical organization, but is a significant and potentially...
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Cardiac organoids do not warrant additional moral scrutiny
Certain organoid subtypes are particularly sensitive. We explore whether moral intuitions about the heartbeat warrant unique moral consideration for...
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Will a Moral Follower Please Stand Up (to the Machiavellian Leader)? The Effects of Machiavellian Leadership on Moral Anger and Whistleblowing
Machiavellianism is a double-edged sword in leadership. While Machiavellian leaders can be successful, they also can be amoral, influencing their...
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Ethics support for ethics support: the development of the Confidentiality Compass for dealing with moral challenges concerning (breaching) confidentiality in moral case deliberation
BackgroundConfidentiality is one of the central preconditions for clinical ethics support (CES). CES cases which generate moral questions for CES...
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The Reliability Challenge to Moral Intuitions
In recent years, the epistemic reliability of moral intuitions has been undermined by substantial empirical data reporting the influence of cognitive...
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Emerging moral status issues
Many controversies in bioethics turn on questions of moral status. Some moral status issues have received extensive bioethical attention, including...