In the light of increasing public mistrust, there is an urgent need to clarify the moral status of the medical profession and of the relationship of the clinician to his/her patients. In addressing this question, I first establish the coherence, within moral philosophy generally, of the concept of supererogation (the doing of more than one’s duty). I adopt the notion of an act of “unqualified” ...

This study uses a cross-country panel to examine the determinants of corruption, paying particular attention to political institutions that increase accountability. Even though the theoretical literature has stressed the importance of political institutions in determining corruption, the empirical literature is relatively scarce. Our results confirm the role of political institutions in determi...

It is well known that modelchecking and satisfiability of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) are Pspace-complete. Wolper showed that with grammar operators, this result can be extended to increase the expressiveness of the logic to all regular languages. Other ways of extending the expressiveness of LTL using modular and group modalities have been explored by Baziramwabo, McKenzie and Thérien, which a...