Session I 9:30 – 10:45 AM Andrew Miles: Roanoke College Department of Philosophy Good, Evil and Well-being: Sam Harris’ Scientific Approach to Ethics One of the most controversial debates in ethics is how to define Good and Evil. Do “good” actions necessarily adhere to commandments set by a God? Or are there many different, equally valid definitions based on cultural norms? Neuroscientist and a...

Kant believes that the concepts of a just and compassionate God and the life beyond death spring from our rational need to unite happiness with virtue. But since Kant had banished happiness from any place in moral reasoning, his philosophy of religion have been deemed as not merely discontinuous with his ethics but radically opposed to it. This article tries to argue against this apparent incon...

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, King's College London, London, UK Senior Lecturer, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London, London, UK Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Mental Health, Ethics and Law research group, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College...

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It has been said that I am against medical philosophy. This is a misrepresentation of my position. I am against conventional medical ethics teaching as it has to be done in medical schools, but very much in favour of philosophy in medicine.

since the publication of anscombe’s famous paper “modern moral philosophy” (1958), virtue ethics has become a matter of discussion among scholars. at least four charges have been raised against virtue ethics, one of which is the charge of promoting undue enthusiasm regarding the moral fitness of human beings. this article explores the limits of virtue ethics with regard to the frailty of human ...

Reeves and Sinnicks present Theodor Adorno as a philosopher with sombre message to business ethics. Capitalist markets distort our needs work in organisations stultifies moral capacities. Thus, the discipline’s self-understanding must be revised, supplemented reflections on what would good work: free creative activity. After raising some questions about their interpretation of Adorno’s writings...