Kent Bach has argued that certain traditional problems of action theory (concerning the individuation of actions, their timing, their location, and the manner in which th[...]

Mele, Alfred R. Springs of Action: Understanding Intentional Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Pp. ix+ 272. $39.95 (cloth). Mele's main project is to giv[...]

Dr Campbell presents proponents of euthanasia with a dilemma.1 Only voluntary euthanasia is permissible; involuntary euthanasia is always impermissible. The question of a[...]

When the demand for a medical resource exceeds the supply, we have a problem of scarcity. There are many instantiations of this issue. The time of health care providers d[...]

For quite some time now there has been a debate between those who insist that conceptual analysis is a matter of determining the conditions necessary and sufficient for f[...]

In this essay I take what I think of as a Wittgensteinian look at emotions. I do not mean by this that I am going to explain Wittgenstein's view of emotions. His primary [...]

It has been almost fifty years since J. L. Austin made his famous plea for excuses before an audience of the Aristotelian Society. Austin's plea was not that we recognize[...]

Psychological egoism is the view that each person is so constituted that he always seeks his own advantage or best interest. This thesis makes the factual claim that huma[...]

Included among the many topics on which Aristotle writes in the Nicomachean Ethics is an account of incontinence or akrasia. Many controversies have arisen among interpre[...]

Though legal positivism remains popular, HLA Hart's version has fallen somewhat by the wayside. This is because, according to many, the central task of a theory of law is[...]

The standard models for what doctors must tell their patients are based on the idea of informed consent: physicians must provide the information that patients need to mak[...]

Most compatibilists have sought to defend their view by means of an analysis of the concept of 'can' in terms of subjunctive conditionals.1 Keith Lehrer opposes this anal[...]

Researchers are obligated to protect the rights of study participants. Protecting the rights of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is particularly complicated because[...]

Codes of medical ethics issued by professional organizations typically contain statements affirming the importance of confidentiality between patients and health-care pra[...]

When Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Höss had over two million people put to death, he was not to blame. When Adolf Eichmann delivered victim after victim to the concent[...]

That one ought morally to do the best one can is a view that enjoys a rich history of support.1 Its most famous incarnation is act utilitarianism, according to which one [...]

This book defends "a theory built around the claim that there is no single true morality" (p. 1). To clarify what he is arguing for, Wong sets out six theses associated w[...]

Insofar as we support the victims' rights movement, we have reason to support the use of legal advance directives allowing individuals opposed to the death penalty an eff[...]

The concept of intrinsic value has enjoyed a long, rich history. From the time of the ancient Greeks to the present day, philosophers have placed it at the foundation of [...]

This article is a review of "Deontic Morality and Control" by Ishtiyaque Haji.

The principle of avoiding surprises, on the other hand, provides some recourse. This is because most of the time there is general agreement about which possible outcomes [...]

Gerald H. Paske has recently criticized some of the conclusions of my work on moral dilemmas. Paske's argument turns on the intriguing idea that right-making properties a[...]

To what end should or do we pursue philosophy and how? Meta-philosophical questions along these lines have gained more and more interest recently. The collected volume "E[...]

What the connection is between the moral evaluation of actions and the moral evaluation of agents is a matter of dispute among philosophers. Marty hold that these two typ[...]

In this chapter, Frances Bottenberg argues that influential contemporary theories of emotion haveyet to solve the classic puzzle of how the peculiar felt aspect of emotio[...]