According to a common view among Muslim philosophers, a moral agent has free will if and only if she is able to do an action when she wants to and is able to avoid it when she wants otherwise. Implicit in this view is the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP). On the other hand, according to this view, free will is dependent on requirements such as conception, judgement, tendency, decisi...

In all kinds of ways the idea of judgement has fallen under suspicion in recent times, and opportunities to exercise it have become fewer. It has suffered from being confused with judgmentalism, and from the assumption that it amounts to little more than subjective whim or preference. In the public services of the UK, and especially in education, it has been steadily eliminated by micromanageme...

Several studies are reviewed that examine differences in moral schema development using techniques intermediate between measuring implicit knowledge (such as with the DeŽ ning Issues Test) and explicit knowledge (such as with the Moral Judgment Interview). Findings include signiŽ cant differences in the comprehension of moral narratives based on age/education and on level of expertise. Also, in...

The conference opened with a talk held by the neuro-biologist, Professor Dr. Michel Imbert (École Normale Supérieure Paris) on the modern image-forming procedures of the neurosciences. Through this method it is also possible to examine moral attitudes and modes of behaviour. A discussion is said to be developing on the manner in which the neurosciences are applying moral concepts – for example ...

The design of a moral decision apparatus is always associated with the appropriate definition of the set of qualities and virtues of an agent which emerge from their feelings and desires. But, there is much more elements along the process of moral judgement and there is no single linear sequence of effects. Therefore, a moral mind is a n-layer organization where the decision apparatus plays a c...

Purpose – Higher education (HE) in the past has been found to have a positive effect on the moral development of students from a variety of disciplines, decreasing conventional and increasing post-conventional moral reasoning progressively at each level of study. This research aims to explore to what extent changes in moral judgement could be detected in students on computing degree courses, at...

Calls for the expansion of ethics education in the business and accounting curricula have resulted in a variety of interventions including additional material on ethical cases, the code of conduct, and the development of new courses devoted to ethical development (Lampe, 1996). The issue of whether ethics should be taught has been addressed by many authors (see for example: McDonald and Donleav...