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Normative Ethical Theories: I
Gain an understanding about consequentialist ethics as a preeminent branch of normative ethics. -
Don’t Just Trust Your Gut: The Importance of Normative Deliberation to Ethical Decision-Making at Work
While deliberation has traditionally played a central role in philosophical and behavioral accounts of ethical decision-making, several recent...
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Normative Ethical Theories: II
Gain an understanding about non-consequentialist ethics as a preeminent branch of normative ethics. -
Normative Reference as a Normative Question
Normative naturalism holds that normative properties are identical with, or reducible to, natural properties. Various challenges to naturalism focus...
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The intrapersonal normative twin earth argument
In this paper I develop an argument against applying a causal theory of mental content to normative concepts. This argument—which I call the...
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Does Ethical Voice Matter? Examining How Peer Team Leader Ethical Voice and Role Modeling Relate to Ethical Leadership
The present study explores a neglected area of ethical leadership: lateral behavioral effect from peer team leaders as a key predictor of ethical...
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The Struggle for AI’s Recognition: Understanding the Normative Implications of Gender Bias in AI with Honneth’s Theory of Recognition
AI systems have often been found to contain gender biases. As a result of these gender biases, AI routinely fails to adequately recognize the needs,...
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Expert Perceptions on Anti-bribery and Corruption Policies in Sports Governing Bodies: Implications for Ethical Climate Theory
Anti-bribery and corruption in sport governing bodies is a little explored area in academic literature. This paper addresses the gap in the...
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Ethical Work Climate 2.0: A Normative Reformulation of Victor and Cullen’s 1988 Framework
Ethical work climate (EWC), introduced by Bart Victor and John Cullen, plays a central role in the business ethics literature due to its influence on...
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Maximizing Shareholder Welfare: A Normative Examination of Hart and Zingales’ Corporate Governance Account
In response to the growing criticisms to shareholder primacy, Oliver Hart, a Nobel Economics Prize recipient, and Luigi Zingales, a very well-known...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Islamic Ethics: Towards Pluralist Ethical Benchmarking for AI
This paper explores artificial intelligence (AI) ethics from an Islamic perspective at a critical time for AI ethical norm-setting. It advocates for...
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Ethical exploration of chatGPT in the modern K-14 economics classroom
This paper addresses the challenge of ethically integrating ChatGPT, a sophisticated AI language model, into K-14 economics education. Amidst the...
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When normal is normative: The ethical significance of conforming to reasonable expectations
People give surprising weight to others’ expectations about their behaviour. I argue the practice of conforming to others’ expectations is ethically...
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The risk of normative bias in reporting empirical research: lessons learned from prenatal screening studies about the prominence of acknowledged limitations
Empirical data can be an extremely powerful and influential tool in bioethical research. However, when researchers or policy makers look for answers...
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Proper Function and Ethical Judgment Towards A Biosemantic Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse
This paper employs Ruth Millikan’s biosemantic theory of representation to develop a proposal about the function of ethical claims and judgments. I...
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Modelling in Normative Ethics
This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in normative ethics can be interpreted as modelling, the form of...
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Comparing First-Year Engineering Student Conceptions of Ethical Decision-Making to Performance on Standardized Assessments of Ethical Reasoning
The Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2) and Engineering Ethical Reasoning Instrument (EERI) are designed to measure ethical reasoning of general (DIT-2)...
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Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models
Ethics commissions are government advisory commissions mandated to give expert advice on contentious moral issues. As this requires making explicit...
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Childhood vaccine refusal and what to do about it: a systematic review of the ethical literature
BackgroundParental refusal of routine childhood vaccination remains an ethically contested area. This systematic review sought to explore and...