It was with great sadness that the philosophical and ethical communities noted the recent passing of Alan Wertheimer. It is not possible to engage in serious work regarding international research ethics (nor much of political philosophy more broadly) without encountering and wrestling with his careful contributions. He was welcoming of discussion and generous with his intellectual energies. Ong...

The present paper revisits the issue of rational decision making in John Rawls’ original position. Drawing on Isaac Levi’s theory of decision, I discuss how we can defend Rawls against John C. Harsanyi’s charge that maximin reasoning in the original position is irrational. The discussion suggests that systematic application of Levi’s theory is likely to have important consequences for ethics an...

abu hamed mohammad ghazzali is a great muslem intellectual and faqih in the fifth century(ah). an outstanding feature of his political thought is the intertwining of ethics and politics. he views politics from the perspective of religion and ethics. thus, politics, in his view, is not the science of power and of how to attain power, but the means for moral improvement and guiding human beings t...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

While bioethics as a field has concerned itself with methodological issues since the early years, there has been no systematic examination of how ethics is incorporated into research on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project. Yet ELSI research may bear a particular burden of investigating and substantiating its methods given public funding, an explicitly c...

The specialty of forensic psychiatry is advancing in practice and in its scholarship. One task for an evolving discipline is to define and master the nature of its work. In this article we assert that the work of testifying in court is more than the sharing of specialized knowledge. It is performance. Anthropology, religious studies, political science, and psychology (among other disciplines) h...

state in their introduction. They describe the UK healthcare and social care primarily shaped by financial and political factors since the very beginning of the National Health Service in 1948 and the fifty years to come. One of the major drivers requesting the guidance of ethics nowadays is the increased stress on the healthcare system. Demand spirals out of control by aging populations while ...

As I write this essay, more than 250,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, in last ten months. To put quarter of a million deaths into perspective, ...