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Environmental Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Extreme weather events like hurricanes occur rarely, but when they occur, they cause immense damage. How should decision-makers, both public and...
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Statistical evidence and algorithmic decision-making
The use of algorithms to support prediction-based decision-making is becoming commonplace in a range of domains including health, criminal justice,...
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Integrating Evidence and Intuition for Shared Decision-Making
This chapter explores the interplay between evidence-based practice and clinical intuition in shared decision-making in healthcare, particularly...
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Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey
BackgroundFor the benefits of advance care planning to be realised during a hospital admission, the treating team must have accurate knowledge of the...
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Pascal’s Wager and Decision-making with Imprecise Probabilities
Unlike other classical arguments for the existence of God, Pascal’s Wager provides a pragmatic rationale for theistic belief. Its most popular...
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(Re)Conceptualising ‘good’ proxy decision-making for research: the implications for proxy consent decision quality
People who are unable to make decisions about participating in research rely on proxies to make a decision based on their wishes and preferences....
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Normative uncertainty meets voting theory
Recent attempts to provide a viable account of decision making under normative uncertainty through the use of voting procedures seem promising, but...
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The Structure of Clinical Ethical Decision-Making: A Hospital System Needs Assessment
Bioethical dilemmas can emerge in research and clinical settings, from end-of-life decision-making to experimental therapies. The COVID-19 pandemic...
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Bridging the Fact/Value Divide in Wisdom Research: The Development of Expertise in Wise Decision-Making
What are the relations among wisdom, virtue, and expertise? Wisdom can be defined broadly as knowledge about how to live well. At the least, the task...
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Are Callings Always Ethically Good? Why and When Occupational Calling Inhibits Unethical Decision-Making Among Researchers
In recent years, attention to researchers’ scientific misconduct has increased dramatically. Although existing research reflects a shared value that...
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Making policy decisions under plural uncertainty: responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
In this paper, I contend that the uncertainty faced by policy-makers in the COVID-19 pandemic goes beyond the one modelled in standard decision...
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Citizen attitudes to non-treatment decision making: a Norwegian survey
BackgroundDecisions about appropriate treatment at the end of life are common in modern healthcare. Non-treatment decisions (NTDs), comprising both withdrawal...
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Ethics of Autonomous Collective Decision-Making: The Caesar Framework
In recent years, autonomous systems have become an important research area and application domain, with a significant impact on modern society. Such...
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When Are We More Ethical? A Review and Categorization of the Factors Influencing Dual-Process Ethical Decision-Making
The study of ethical decision-making has made significant advances, particularly with regard to the ways in which different types of processing are...
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Extremely premature birth bioethical decision-making supported by dialogics and pragmatism
Moral values in healthcare range widely between interest groups and are principally subjective. Disagreements diminish dialogue and marginalize...
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Sharing decisions amid uncertainties: a qualitative interview study of healthcare professionals’ ethical challenges and norms regarding decision-making in gender-affirming medical care
BackgroundIn gender-affirming medical care (GAMC), ethical challenges in decision-making are ubiquitous. These challenges are becoming more pressing...
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Betting on Conspiracy: A Decision Theoretic Account of the Rationality of Conspiracy Theory Belief
The question of the rationality of conspiratorial belief divides philosophers into mainly two camps. The particularists believe that each conspiracy...
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When justifications are mistaken for motivations: COVID-related dietary changes at the food-health decision-making nexus
This paper draws from data collected from 500+ surveys, distributed twice from the same respondents (2020 and 2021), and forty-five face-to-face...
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Junior medical doctors’ decision making when using advance care directives to guide treatment for people with dementia: a cross-sectional vignette study
BackgroundJunior medical doctors have a key role in discussions and decisions about treatment and end-of-life care for people with dementia in...
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How to deal with moral challenges around the decision-making competence in transgender adolescent care? Development of an ethics support tool
BackgroundDecision-making competence is a complex concept in the care for transgender and gender diverse adolescents, since this type of care...
