Empathy’s role in moral judgment has not received as much attention as its role in moral motivation. Yet given that emotions have at least a causal influence on moral belief, it is plausible that empathy makes an important difference. However, critics like Jesse Prinz point to empathy’s inherent partiality and limitations as reasons to think that it has only a limited explanatory role and that ...

It is generally agreed that making progress towards eradicating hunger worldwide is a moral obligation for the richer countries of the world. The instrument known as food aid is widely regarded as an important vehicle for providing assistance to needy countries. However, fresh debates in the present Doha round of WTO negotiations have brought a renewed interest in food aid issues. The Doha roun...

The ethical problems in vaccine research have grown in frequency and magnitude in last decades, due to the dominant place of the pharmaceutical industry in the development of such studies. Traditional issues of security and efficacy have been aggravated by the conflicts of interests introduced by commercial competition in a global market worth billions of dollars. We present here a few examples...

What could public health advocates do more effectively to encourage governments to act on underprioritized global health concerns? One important component largely missing from current strategies is the international human rights framework. Human rights principles and standards, including the right to the highest attainable standard of health, offer powerful moral arguments which can reinforce c...

In comparison with the ethical issues surrounding molecular genetics, there has been little public awareness of the ethical implications of neuroscience. Yet recent progress in cognitive neuroscience raises a host of ethical issues of at least comparable importance. Some are of a practical nature, concerning the applications of neurotechnology and their likely implications for individuals and s...

This paper provides information about the development of the acoustic sciences in Lithuania after the restoration of its independence. We give a brief account of the work achieved in the field of acoustics and a list of the scientific publications of the author. We acknowledge the influence exerced by acousticians of Western Europe and Japan conducive to the progress of the acoustic science in ...

When is it best for the Principal to commit not to disclosing all what she knows in moral hazard interactions. I show that whenever the agent would choose the same action under complete information at several distinct states, then full transparency can generically be improved upon. This implies that full transparency is generically suboptimal whenever the dimension of the information held by th...

Producing knowledge is of fundamental importance and disseminating knowledge is a moral and ethical task that must not be neglected, especially by those who belong to a university institution strongly committed to teaching, research and patient care. The words science, technology and research denote three highly complex concepts of human activity. In medicine, and in surgery in particular, this...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound Journal Article How to cite: Revill, George (2016). How is space made in sound? Spatial mediation, critical phenomenology and the political agency of sound. Progress in Human Geography (Early view). For guida...