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Book Review Of, Emotions And Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Maurice Hamington
Book Review Of, Emotions And Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Maurice Hamington
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Book Review: Emotions and Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Sophie Bourgault and Elena Pulcini (editors). Leuven: Peeters, 2018 (ISBN 978-90-429-3711-6)
A Defense Of Locke’S Moral Epistemology, Jamie J. Hardy
A Defense Of Locke’S Moral Epistemology, Jamie J. Hardy
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke provides an empirical account of all of our ideas, including our moral ideas. However, Locke’s account of moral epistemology is difficult to understand leading to mistaken objections to his moral epistemological theory. In this paper, I offer what I believe to be the correct account of Locke’s moral epistemology. This account of his moral epistemology resolves the objections that morality is not demonstrable, that Locke’s account fails to demonstrate the normativity of statements, and that Locke has not provided us with the means to determine the correctness of the moral rules.
Diagnostic Justice: Testing For Covid-19, Ashley Graham Kennedy, Bryan Cwik
Diagnostic Justice: Testing For Covid-19, Ashley Graham Kennedy, Bryan Cwik
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Diagnostic testing can be used for many purposes, including testing to facilitate the clinical care of individual patients, testing as an inclusion criterion for clinical trial participation, and both passive and active surveillance testing of the general population in order to facilitate public health outcomes, such as the containment or mitigation of an infectious disease. As such, diagnostic testing presents us with ethical questions that are, in part, already addressed in the literature on clinical care as well as clinical research (such as the rights of patients to refuse testing or treatment in the clinical setting or the rights of …