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When Is Self-perceived Burden an Acceptable Reason to Hasten Death?
Many terminally ill patients perceive themselves to be a burden to loved ones who care for them. The self-perception of being a burden can play a...
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Beyond Choice: A Non-Ideal Feminist Approach to Body Modification
Gendered socialization has prompted numerous attempts to redefine what counts as an autonomous choice. However, there is strong disagreement among...
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Radical epistemology, theory choice, and the priority of the epistemic
Beliefs based on pernicious ideology are widespread, and they often have harmful consequences. Attempts to solve the problems these beliefs cause...
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The Choice of Self
The chapter sheds light on the process of choosing oneself as part of modern ethics. This is described by Kierkegaard as the synthesis of opposites...
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The African Philosopher and The Burden of Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS)
Philosophy from the ancient period to the contemporary period is regarded as the basis for rationality in all human societies. It is thus a veritable...
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Choice of Research Topic – A Question of Taking Societal Responsibility
The societal responsibility of researchers and research organizations has received increased attention in recent years. An example is EU’s policy for...
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The metaphysical burden of Millianism
The Millian semantic view of names relies on a metaphysical view of names—often given the label ‘common currency conception’ (‘CCC’)—on which the...
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Beyond Public Health and Private Choice: Breastfeeding, Embodiment and Public Health Ethics
The key objective of this paper is to emphasize the importance of acknowledging breastfeeding as an embodied social practice within interventions...
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Medical versus social egg freezing: the importance of future choice for women’s decision-making
While the literature on oncofertility decision-making was central to the bioethics debate on social egg freezing when the practice emerged in the...
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When Do Corporate Good Deeds Become a Burden? The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Following Negative Events
This study investigates the differential roles of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the context of negative events. By categorizing CSR and...
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Looking Behind the Fear of Becoming a Burden
As they age, many people are afraid that they might become a burden to their families and friends. In fact, fear of being a burden is one of the most...
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Physicalism and the burden of parsimony
Parsimony considerations are ubiquitous in the literature concerning the nature of mental states. Other things being equal, physicalist views are...
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Tragic Choices and the Virtue of Techno-Responsibility Gaps
There is a concern that the widespread deployment of autonomous machines will open up a number of ‘responsibility gaps’ throughout society. Various...
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The Assessment and Relief of Suffering in the Shadow of MAID
The chapter explores the sufferingSuffering associated with MAIDMedical Assistance in Dying (MAID) giving special attention to assessmentAssessment...
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Sanity and Choice
We have determined that many associate free will with choice, including Freud and Rogers. It is time to say more about the benefits of choosing. The...
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Bill of Rights I: The Establishment Clause and the Right to the Free Exercise of Religion
This chapter examines the first amendment to the Constitution, which contains the establishment and free religious expression clause. The new,...
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Critiques of Five Variants of Putative Realism
Entity realism, minimal realism, axiological realism, van Fraassen’s definition of scientific realism, and selective realism all aspire to be...
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Presuppositional Fallacies
Presuppositions are at the same time a crucial and almost neglected dimension of arguments and fallacies. Arguments involve different types of...
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Caregivers of ALS Patients: Their Experiences and Needs
We explored the care experiences and needs of the home caregivers of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to improve their quality of...
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The Ethical Charge of Articulating Mathematics
Making mathematical statements and justifying them depend on a choice of mathematical framework(s). Such choice, this paper argues, depends on social...
