I study a simple model of moral hazard with soft information. The risk-averse agent takes an action and she alone observes the stochastic outcome; hence the principal faces a problem of ex post adverse selection. Some measure of truthful revelation is necessary to implement any effort, for which an audit is required. And for effort to be induced the agent must be offered a rent. There exists a ...

Some philosophers contend that concomitant ignorance preserves moral responsibility for wrongdoing. An agent is concomitantly ignorant with respect to wrongdoing if and only her non-culpable, but she would freely have performed the same action were not ignorant. I, however, argue excuses. I show leading accounts of imply excuses, debunk view responsibility.

We are presently in an era of intense concern about the sexual conduct of adolescents, with a particular focus on young women. This preoccupation can be traced back to the 1960s when policymakers began to draw a link between " early " childbearing and poverty. The initial emphasis on the consequences of sexual activity meant that the underlying moral issues went largely unnoticed. However, with...

An analogy between goodness and color is often drawn since George Edward Moore to demonstrate the objective validity of goodness, this way has elicited many responses. German philosopher Max Scheler also frequently analogizes color. However, his theory good distinguishes two approaches claim for under framework fact value, thus based on value theory: goods are qualities values, while what moral...

While a resident in psychiatry at a large metropolitan hospital, I was called to the Emergency floor one evening to see a Hispanic lady, who was reported to have an anxiety attack. I found the lady very distraught, frightened, and shaking all over. Since she could not understand English, I asked her in Spanish what was wrong. She told me she had been feeling upset after a quarrel with her daugh...