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Towards trust-based governance of health data research
Developments in medical big data analytics may bring societal benefits but are also challenging privacy and other ethical values. At the same time,...
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Positive Wild Animal Welfare
With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state...
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Would God Really Send Me to Hell for Stealing a Wispa Bar?
This paper discusses the problem of Hell, defending the Aquinas-Anselm-Edwards response that any immoral act deserves eternal punishment because it...
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Thoughts on Jun Otsuka’s Thinking about Statistics – the Philosphical Foundations
Jun Otsuka’s excellent book, Thinking about Statistics - the Philosophical Foundations (Otsuka
2023 ) is mostly organized around the idea that... -
‘In My Beginning Is My End’: Threads and Themes from Under the Net to Jackson’s Dilemma
In this chapter, ‘“In my beginning is my end”: Threads and Themes from Under the Net to Jackson’s Dilemma’, Frances White offers an overarching...
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Approach versus Avoidance: A Self-Regulatory Perspective on Hypocrisy Induction in Anti-Cyberbullying CSR Campaigns
Governments, institutions, and brands try various intervention strategies for countering growing cyberbullying, but with questionable effectiveness....
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Vaccine Impact Bonds: An Alternative Way of Allocating the Economic Risks of Mass Vaccination Programs
Vaccines can be an appropriate tool for combating pandemics. Accordingly, expectations were high when the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered....
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Bad Feelings, Best Explanations: In Defence of the Propitiousness Theory of the Low Mood System
There are three main accounts of the proper function of the low mood system (LMS): the social risk theory, the disease theory, and the propitiousness...
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Esca** the Impossibility of Fairness: From Formal to Substantive Algorithmic Fairness
Efforts to promote equitable public policy with algorithms appear to be fundamentally constrained by the “impossibility of fairness” (an...
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Justice in the Ecological Emergency: The Search for the Common Good
The year 2050 has become a benchmark for predictions and warnings about the global environment and economy. By then people of color will be the...
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Iris Murdoch and Goodness: How Good?
This chapter provides a developed version of the Plenary Lecture given by Valentine Cunningham at the Iris Murdoch Centenary Conference, held at St...
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‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes
Academic and public debate is continuing about whether digital nomadism, a new Internet-enabled phenomenon in which digital workers adopt a...
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Justice and Migration. Europe’s Most Cruel Dilemma
For Europeans who strive for greater justice, there is no more cruel dilemma that the tension between maximal generosity towards the weakest among...
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Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan
COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on the dynamics of human trafficking. This...
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Poverty
This article examines the links between Covid-19, lockdowns, massive job losses and the rise in poverty, all of which are rooted in the negative...
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Retheorizing Aristotle’s Catharsis: The Role of Memories in Narrating and Purging Emotions
‘Do memories provide cathartic release for the conscious/unconscious conflict operating in the psyche of the migratory/diasporic subjects?’ This...