Towards responsible ejaculations: the moral imperative for male contraceptive responsibility

The moral imperative towards cost - effectiveness

Cost-effectiveness is one of the most morally important issues in global health. This claim will be surprising to many, since conversations about the ethics of global health usually focus on more traditional moral issues such as justice, equality, and freedom. While these issues are also important, they are often overshadowed by cost-effectiveness. In this note, I shall explain how this happens...

Moral Responsibility

Introduction General Overviews Anthologies and Textbooks Free Will Classic Texts Contemporary Debates and their Precursors (I) Utilitarian Instrumentalism (II) Responsibility and the Reactive Sentiments (III) Identifying with our Actions (IV) The Value of Choice and Contractualist Developments Moral Reasons and Moral Address Arguments Against Control Earlier Contributions Social and Political A...

The Moral Imperative to Preserve

This article introduces the concept of monumental preservation, which the author defines as the preservation of all cultural phenomena, because from the smallest item to the greatest monument all things emanate from and reflect culture. The imperative to preserve monuments is the imperative to preserve our cultural heritage. Whether there is a moral responsibility to preserve cultural heritage ...

Moral Responsibility for Computing Artifacts: "The Rules"

Towards Formal Definitions of Blameworthiness, Intention, and Moral Responsibility

We provide formal definitions of degree of blameworthiness and intention relative to an epistemic state (a probability over causal models and a utility function on outcomes). These, together with a definition of actual causality, provide the key ingredients for moral responsibility judgments. We show that these definitions give insight into commonsense intuitions in a variety of puzzling cases ...