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Professionalization of Clinical Ethics Consultants: A Need for Liability Protection?
Clinical Ethics Consultation (CEC) has grown significantly in the last decade, and efforts are being made to professionalize the practice. The...
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Institutional Liability in Research
In this chapter, we explore a pragmatic approach to balancing the risks and rewards related to engagement in research through a regulatory lens. The...
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The Spectrum of Liability to Defensive Harm and the Case of Child Soldiers
We typically see child soldiers as not morally responsible because of their age and/or because they are victims of adult exploitation. Work on child...
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Autonomous Artificial Intelligence and Liability: a Comment on List
Christian List argues that responsibility gaps created by viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as intentional agents are problematic enough that...
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Liability, culpability, and luck
This paper focuses on the role of culpability in determining the degree of liability to defensive harm, and asks whether there are any restrictions...
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Manipulation and liability to defensive harm
Philosophers working on the morality of harm have paid surprisingly little attention to the problem of manipulation. The aim of this paper is to...
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Liability for Robots: Sidestep** the Gaps
In this paper, I outline a proposal for assigning liability for autonomous machines modeled on the doctrine of respondeat superior . I argue that the...
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Liability for Dispensing Errors in Hong Kong
The United Kingdom (UK) case R v Lee (
2010 ) EWCA Crim 1404 resulted in a pharmacist being convicted for an inadvertent dispensing error and paved way... -
Two grounds of liability
This essay argues that culpability and responsibility are independent notions, even though some of the same facts make us both responsible and...
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A Legal Principles-Based Framework for AI Liability Regulation
Europe has recently taken the path of regulating artificial intelligence (AI). This is a complex task, in which it is crucial to understand what the...
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Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua
Throughout history, medicine has been considered a superior and even sacred activity. The modern concept of medical malpractice was almost...
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The Liability of Tribe in Corporate Political Activity: Ethical Implications for Political Contestability
Political contestability is an important issue in the ethical analysis of corporate political activity (hereafter CPA). Though previous studies have...
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As American Society Evolves so Does Medicine: Autonomy, Informed Consent, and Liability
Since the mid-twentieth century the environment of typical medical practice in this country has evolved in many ways. Abandonment of physician’s once...
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Responsibility and Liability in the Case of AI Systems
This chapter discusses the question of who is responsible in the case of an accident involving a robot or an AI system that results in some form of...
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Middle ground on liability for costs?
On the strict liability view, excusably ignorant agents must cover all the wrongful costs they have inadvertently brought onto others, although it is...
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Organizational Top Dog (vs. Underdog) Narratives Increase the Punishment of Corporate Moral Transgressions: When Dominance is a Liability and Prestige is an Asset
Although company narratives frequently emphasize impressive sales numbers and market leadership, such an organizational “top dog” narrative can...
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Responsiveness and Liability
The present contribution argues that we should abandon the concept of responsibility altogether because it is too general and vague. Apart from that,...
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The Ethics of Signaling in War
One criticism of revisionist just war thought is often called the “contingent pacifism” objection. According to this objection, revisionist just war...
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Meta-uncertainty and the proof paradoxes
Various real and imagined criminal law cases rest on “naked statistical evidence”. That is, they rest more or less entirely on a probability for...
