Discussing values and judgments

NICE and its value judgments: utilitarian values are inadequate.

Letter NICE and its value judgments Utilitarian values are inadequate EDITOR—The values of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) turn out to be utilitarian and economic.1 Predictably, NICE's attempt to use them to generate advice to professionals for achieving the highest attainable standard of care often founders on the narrowness of perspective. High quality care demands an un...

Different moral values produce different judgments of intentional action

Recent work in social psychology and experimental philosophy has suggested that moral considerations (praise vs. blame) can influence judgments about the intentional status of an act, contradicting both lay and legal assumptions about the relationship between theory of mind and morality. A corollary of this account suggests that different assessments of intentional action should emerge whenever...

Reasoning and intuiting the standards for judgments

  What is the extension to which the act of reasoning and the standards of judgments are interrelated? The author, proposing Muslim scholars` views in the field and relying on traditions, ahadith, has concluded that firstly one has to answer the question: does the standard and expediency of Divine judgment lies in the judgment or in its object? The latter is signified, however, with view to so...

Religious Symbols and Religious Garb in the Courtroom: Personal Values and Public Judgments

Moral perfectionism and moral values, virtues, and judgments: A preliminary investigation

Moral perfectionism has a long tradition in philosophical inquiry, but so far has been ignored in psychological research. This article presents a first psychological investigation of moral perfectionism exploring its relationships with moral values, virtues, and judgments. In three studies, 539 university students responded to items of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Frost et al...