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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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A troubling foundational inconsistency: autonomy and collective agency in critical care decision-making
‘Shared’ decision-making is heralded as the gold standard of how medical decisions should be reached, yet how does one ‘share’ a decision when any...
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Libertarianism, decision-making, and a point of no return
This paper develops a challenge to standard libertarian views that is based on an imagined neuroscientificdiscovery that is incompatible with...
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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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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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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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Toward a Culture-Analytical and Praxeological Perspective on Decision-Making
This article outlines a culture-analytical alternative in, and to, decision science. In contrast to the predominant individualistic and mentalistic...
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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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Caring for older patients with reduced decision-making capacity: a deductive exploratory study of ambulance clinicians’ ethical competence
BackgroundAs more people are living longer, they become frail and are affected by multi-morbidity, resulting in increased demands from the ambulance...
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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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Climate Change and Decision Theory
Many people are worried about the harmful effects of climate change but nevertheless enjoy some activities that contribute to the emission of...
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Climate Change and Decision Theory
Many people are worried about the harmful effects of climate change but nevertheless enjoy some activities that contribute to the emission of...
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A qualitative interview study to determine barriers and facilitators of implementing automated decision support tools for genomic data access
Data access committees (DAC) gatekeep access to secured genomic and related health datasets yet are challenged to keep pace with the rising volume...
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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...
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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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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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Group belief reconceived
An influential account or group belief analyzes it as a form of joint commitment by group members. In spite of its popularity, the account faces...
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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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Medical staff’s sense of awareness of informed consent for adolescent cancer patients and the need for decision-making support practiced from the perspective of trauma-informed approach
It has not been established how to assess children’s and adolescents’ decision-making capacity (DMC) and there has been little discussion on the way...
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Political Action and Group Action
Hannah Arendt’s theory of political action is often described by scholars as either involving a unique individual who discloses herself by acting...