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The Legitimacy of the G20
This chapter addresses the question of whether the G20 is legitimate. It argues that the existence of an institution that exercises the two functions...
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Disorders of Consciousness: An Embedded Ethnographic Approach to Uncovering the Specific Influence of Functional Neurodiagnostics of Consciousness in Surrogate Decision Making
A recent qualitative study published in Neuroethics by Schembs and colleagues explores how functional neurodiagnostics of consciousness inform...
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The First Stage of Engineering Activity: Planning and Decision-Making
The first phase of any engineering processStagethe first stage of engineering activity is planning and decision-makingDecisiondecision-making. As a...
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Integrating Value Considerations in the Decision Making for the Design of Biorefineries
Biobased production has been promoted as a sustainable alternative to fossil resources. However, controversies over its impact on sustainability...
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From Legal Fiction to Collective Agency: Contemporary Arguments for Collective Personhood
In our everyday language, groups are described as if they had intentions, beliefs, attitudes, rights, and responsibilities. This practice of group...
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Water, Stakeholder Values, and Decision Making
Water management is in a peculiar position among the various resource management regimes. Besides air quality management, perhaps, no other arena of...
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Democracy
The main thrust of the argument of this book is that a global despotic government should be replaced by global democracy, once it has fulfilled its...
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Why Power (Dunamis) Ontology of Causation is Relevant to Managers: Dialogue as an Illustration
Since management is about influencing - influencing people who work in the organization, the structure and practices of the organization, as well as...
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Predictive Fairness
It has recently been argued that in normal decision circumstances no systematic decision method that predicts the likelihood that individuals possess...
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Group Ontology and Skeptical Arguments
This chapter anticipates objections to the use of group ontology for the ascription of legal rights to corporate religious liberty. Three positions...
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Deontological decision theory and lesser-evil options
Normative ethical theories owe us an account of how to evaluate decisions under risk and uncertainty. Deontologists seem at a disadvantage here: our...
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Incommensurability and hardness
There is growing support for the view that there can be cases of incommensurability, understood as cases in which two alternatives, X and Y, are such...
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Reasoning in Character: Virtue, Legal Argumentation, and Judicial Ethics
This paper develops a virtue-account of legal reasoning which significantly differs from standard, principle-based, theories. A virtue approach to...
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Where Does Taste-Based Discrimination Come From?
As the last chapter has revealed, the reason why a decision-maker makes use of statistical discrimination is easily comprehensible. If a decision...
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Equalized odds is a requirement of algorithmic fairness
Statistical criteria of fairness are formal measures of how an algorithm performs that aim to help us determine whether an algorithm would be fair to...
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Moral lessons from residents, close relatives and volunteers about the COVID-19 restrictions in Dutch and Flemish nursing homes
BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, national governments took restrictive measures, such as a visitors ban, prohibition of group...
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Institutional review boards in Saudi Arabia: the first survey-based report on their functions and operations
BackgroundInstitutional review boards (IRBs) are formally designated to review, approve, and monitor biomedical research. They are responsible for...
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What’s the Use of Non-moral Supererogation?
While moral philosophers have paid significant attention to the concept of moral supererogation, far less attention has been paid to the possibility...
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Getting Real: The Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network’s COVID-19 Working Group Debriefs Lessons Learned
Responding to a major pandemic and planning for allocation of scarce resources (ASR) under crisis standards of care requires coordination and...
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What is foraging?
Foraging is a central competence of all mobile organisms. Models and concepts from foraging theory have been applied widely throughout biology to the...
