Medical ethics is that branch of applied philosophy which considers issues of values raised by medical practice, and should not be equated with 'principlism'. Clarification of facts/values distinctions is an important part of this work. The notion that medical philosophy can flourish in the hands of medical 'generalists' without specialist philosophers, is misguided. Both must work together to ...

Acknowledgements: The early draft of this paper has been orally presented at the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) Annual Conference 2004 “Critique Today”, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Division of SCMP, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 8-10 December, 2004, session 17 “Phenomenology, Semiotics, Ethics”. Th...

Dr. Eric M. Meslin is Director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, Professor of Medicine, and of Medical and Molecular Genetics in the Indiana University School of Medicine, and Professor of Philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts. He is also Assistant Dean for Bioethics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Meslin received his B.A. in Philosophy from York University (T...

In recent years, we have seen a resurgence of the topic shame in philosophy and moral philosophy. The paper analyses as emotion contemporary moral-philosophical environmental discourse. Questions are articulated, which different contexts has already been studied them appear to be crucial for ethics applied ethics? article, author addresses concept by Sarah E. Fredericks (2021) considers questio...

Abstract Individualist normative theories appear inadequate for the complex moral challenges of climate change. In ethics, this is especially notable with relative marginalization Kant. I argue that Kant’s philosophy, understood through its historical and cosmopolitan dimensions, has untapped potential crisis. First, situate Kant in ethics evaluate his due to perceived individualism, interiorit...