One of the main features of health insurance is moral hazard, as defined by Pauly [Pauly, M.V., 1968. The economics of moral hazard: comment. American Economic Review 58, 531-537), people face incentives for excess utilization of medical care since they do not pay the full marginal cost for provision. To mitigate the moral hazard problem, a coinsurance can be included in the insurance contract....

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is being used to argue for wider recognition of the legal capacity of people with mental disabilities. This raises a question about the implications of the Convention for attributions of criminal responsibility. The present paper works towards an answer by analysing the relationship between legal capacity in relatio...

Thomas Drennan was one of a number of dissenting ministers, educated in Glasgow, who formed a distinct group and through which political ideas were developed and articulated. Drennan was related by marriage to Francis Hutcheson and went in 1720 to assist him in a Dissenting school in Dublin. It was Hutcheson, who returned to Glasgow as Professor of Moral Philosophy, who was to provide the basis...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put every contemporary society in front of various challenges. While those are often reflected and explained through economic, political or medical lenses, it seems that thorough ethical bioethical insights too rarely exposed made explicit. This article tries to contribute the neglected sphere interconnection interrelatedness basic moral values general, primarily publi...

Abstract The article compares three influential theories used in sociology and psychology to categorize types of morality—Luc Boltanski & Laurent Thévenot’s justification theory , Shalom H. Schwartz’s basic human values Jonathan Haidt’s moral foundations —to simplify the complexity presented by different categorizations, while retaining necessary nuance, translate concepts each into languag...