I had a conversation recently with a relative who is generally quite intelligent, but also deep down the rabbit hole of climate-change denialism. And in talking to him, I realised something about a dilemma in science communication that is particularly acute for any topic where there is a vest...
but also whether your opponent tomorrow will, and the day after, and so on. We’re all wondering whetherallof us will dope. In society there are loads of these scaled up versions of the prisoner’s dilemma.
This paper reveals a serious flaw in the consequentialist solution to the inefficacy problem in moral philosophy. The consequentialist solution is based on
The public goods game is traditionally employed as a theoretical model that describes the social dilemma that emerges when individual short-term interests are inherently different from what would be best for the society as a whole4. Governed by group interactions, the public goods game requires ...
want and give love, to have freedom and security, we have learned that we are safer, stronger and more prosperous in asuccessful group. Crimes are inherently anti-social behaviours that introduce needless risk and are antithetical to the long-term needs and goals of a happy, stable society. ...
Other names:False dilemma, false dichotomy, black-or-white, either/or, fallacy of the excluded middle Definition and explanation: The false choiceoversimplifiesa complex issue into two options, ignoring the possibility that other options may exist. In this fallacy, the arguer frames their opponent...
The paper focuses on the rising gap between ethics and modern day business practices and employs recent Catholic Social Teaching and moral anthropology in order to assess the types of (value) ascriptions that can (normativelv) best define business ethics in an era of positive economics, rising ...
Cost-containment in oncology is a moral issue. While economists use the word "rationing" to describe all limitations on resource utilization that result fr... Sulmasy,P D. - 《Journal of Clinical Oncology Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology》 被引量: 64发表: 2007年 ...
The more I learned about our modern society, the more hopeless I grew that I could see any significant change within my lifetime. However, this hopelessness comes in waves; every day, I remind myself of the moment I discovered the horizon. Or the moment I first dove into the beautiful ...
reasoned moral convictions provide the same utilitarian benefits to society that the founding generation saw in religion. As such, there is no basis to see any distinct social benefit to religious exercise — let alone shape political society around the fulfillment of divergent religious obligation...