Rational choice theory, including models of social preferences, is challenged by decades robust data from public good games. Provision goods, funded lump-sum taxation, does not crowd out private provision on a one-for-one basis. games elicit more than payoff-equivalent appropriation This paper offers morally monotonic theory that incorporates observable moral reference points and consistent wit...

Insider trading per se is obtaining information from non-public sources—private acquaintances, friends, colleagues—and using it for purposes of enhancing one's financial advantage. As Vincent Barry explains, “Insider dealings refers to the ability of key employees to profit from knowledge or information that has not yet become public.” Sometimes such a practice can be conducted fraudulently, as...

In his "Notes on Moral Theology: April-September 1975," Richard A. McCormick, S.J., takes up some recent treatments of the distinction between killing and allowing to die. I want to comment on one part of that discussion—his treatment of an article by Gerald J. Hughes, S.J.1 will suggest that neither Hughes's argument nor McCormick's discussion takes us much beyond where Paul Ramsey had already...

The objective of the present article is to review moral assumptions underlying organ donation in the intensive care unit. Data sources used include personal experience, and a Medline search and a non-Medline search of relevant English-language literature. The study selection included articles concerning organ donation. All data were extracted and analysed by the author. In terms of data synthes...

Many people seem to share some version of what has been called the "intuition of neutrality" about creating new people, which, roughly, says that there exists a certain range of levels of well-being such that creating people within this range is, in itself, morally neutral, but creating people with a level of well-being outside this range is not morally neutral. In this paper, I will discuss di...

In my book, Artiicial Morality, I defend a thesis and a method relevant to business ethics. The thesis is that moral constraint is rational; in some sense it does pay to be good. I sketch the argument for this thesis in section 1. Section 2 explains the method I employ: moral functionalism. 1 Section 3 applies my theory to the question whether a corporation can be moral using a management scien...