Although the role of imagination in moral reasoning is often neglected, recent literature, mostly of pragmatist signature, points to imagination as one of its central elements. In this article we develop some of their arguments by looking at the moral role of imagination in practice, in particular the practice of neonatal intensive care. Drawing on empirical research, we analyze a decision-maki...

Mit diesem Beitrag soll gezeigt werden, dass moralische Entscheidungsfindung rational optimiert werden kann. Die von der Autorin dazu kurz vorgestellte Methode besteht aus drei Teilen: Erstens, die Entscheidungsfindung. Zweitens, Methodik rationalen Rechtfertigung bei im Allgemeinen und drittens, deren Anwendungen auf dem Gebiet Moral. Der zweite Teil basiert Idee LBA («Least Bad Alternative») ...

This paper demonstrates that accounting for the moral harm of selecting for deafness is not as simple or obvious as the widespread negative response from the hearing community would suggest. The central questions addressed by the paper are whether our moral disquiet with regard to selecting for deafness can be adequately defended, and if so, what this might entail. The paper considers several d...

We address the questions (1) how moral decision-making can be formally modeled using established decision models and (2) which of these models are the most accurate in predicting moral judgments. We conducted an experiment with a comparison task in which people had to decide which of two companies behaved more fairly in dealing with the consequences of the current financial crisis. We modeled t...

The ability of medical science to prolong biological life through the use of technology raises the question of how far physicians should go in treating the terminally ill patient. In clinical decision making involving the dying patient, physicians, patients and families bring various perceptions and interpretations to the situation. These different realities must be negotiated in order to defin...