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Understanding and Preventing Torture: a Review of the Literature
This article reviews the social scientific literature on the causes of and prevention of torture, analyzes its successes and failures, and proposes a...
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Medical Ghost- and Guest-Writing as Corrupt Practices and How to Prevent Them
This chapter analyses the corrupting influence of medical ghostwriting and its parallel phenomenon, guest-writing on medical and pharmaceutical...
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Qualification in Philosophy
Qualifiers such as “insofar as” and “in itself” have always been important ingredients in key philosophical claims. Descartes, for instance, famously...
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In Defence of the Indefensible: Exploring Justification Narratives of Corporate Elites Accused of Corruption
Drawing on the pragmatic turn in contemporary social theory, we explore how corporate elites accused of corruption in the context of weak...
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Unethical Behavioral Finance: Why Good People Do Bad Things
Just as people at times make bad (i.e., irrational) financial decisions, they also make bad ethical decisions. However, it is important to note that...
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Representations of (Nano)technology in Comics from the ‘NanoKOMIK’ Project
Representations of science and technology, embodied as imaginaries, visions, and expectations, have become a growing focus of analysis. These...
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Reconceptualizing Moral Disengagement as a Process: Transcending Overly Liberal and Overly Conservative Practice in the Field
Moral disengagement was initially conceptualized as a process through which people reconstrue unethical behaviors, with the effect of deactivating...
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Sex Robots and Moral Problems: A Conditional Approach
Robots designed to mimic human sexual behaviour and interaction are known as “sex robots.” In the contemporary world, they have become more...
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Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience
Ecological accounts of responsible agency claim that moral feedback is essential to the reasons-responsiveness of agents. In this paper, we discuss...
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Is There a Foreign Language Effect on Workplace Bribery Susceptibility? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Vignette Experiment
Theory and evidence from the behavioral science literature suggest that the widespread and rising use of lingua francas in the workplace may impact...
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Elections and CSR Engagement: International Evidence
Using a large panel of elections in 44 countries, we show that national elections affect CSR in contrasting ways. We posit and find that in strong...
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The Institutional Laundry: How the Public May Keep Their Hands Clean
A number of recent authors have argued for the problem of ‘democratic dirty hands’. At least within a democracy, public officers can be rightly said...
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Living with Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: Social Identity and the Role of Moral Disengagement
We examine corruption across three Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries (Hungary, North Macedonia and Slovenia) through a social psychology...
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The Serpent’s Lair – Characteristics, Causes and Contexts of Corruption
This chapter will provide a general philosophical account of corruption that applies to all forms of corruption, such as political, financial, police...
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Aristotle’s akrasia and Corporate Corruption: Redefining Integrity in Business
Despite many twenty-first century efforts to minimize corporate corruption, initiatives taken by local governments, global organizations, academic...
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The Blinding Effects of Team Identification on Sports Corruption: Cross-Cultural Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries
Although the world of sports has witnessed numerous corruption scandals, the effects of perceived corruption in sports have not been sufficiently...
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Corruption in the Health Sector: Case Study of Kosovo
Comprehensive development, growth, and prosperity of all social ranks are among the fundamental problems of many countries. The health sector is of...
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The politics of past and future: synthetic media, showing, and telling
Generative artificial intelligence has given us synthetic media that are increasingly easy to create and increasingly hard to distinguish from...