Two New Philosophical Problems for Robo-Ethics

Philosophical Ethics Adapted from Thomas White, "ethics," Chapter 1, Business Ethics: a Philosophical Reader (new York: Macmillan Publishing, 1993)

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions. Philosophical ethics differs from legal, religious, cultural and personal approaches to ethics by seeking to conduct the study of morality through a rational, secular outlook that is grounded in notions of human happiness or well-being. A major advantage of a philosophical approach to ethics...

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Fitness : Philosophical Problems

[120-150 words] Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild to a central element in abstract theoretical presentations of natural selection. It has thus been the subject of an extensive philosophical literature, which has primarily centered on the way to understand the relationship between fitness values and reproductive outcomes. If fitnes...

Science: philosophical problems.

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Theories of Medical Ethics: the Philosophical Structure