Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Legal Ethics (2)
- Analytical Marxis (1)
- Antireductionism (1)
- Collective entities (1)
- Corporate Law (1)
-
- Economics (1)
- Elimination (1)
- Evolutionary explanation (1)
- Functional explanation (1)
- G.A. Cohen (1)
- Jon Elster (1)
- Jurisprudence (1)
- Law and Society (1)
- Legal Profession (1)
- Methodological individualism (1)
- Politics (1)
- Professional Responsibility (1)
- Public Law and Legal Theory (1)
- Reduction (1)
- Securities Law (1)
- Social Choice Theory (1)
- Social Science Explanation (1)
- Social scientific explanation (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in Ethics and Political Philosophy
Can We Share Ethical Views With Other Religions?, Robert Hannaford
Can We Share Ethical Views With Other Religions?, Robert Hannaford
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, October 7, 1993.
Why Does Utilitarianism Seem Plausible?, John Dilworth
Why Does Utilitarianism Seem Plausible?, John Dilworth
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - May 27, 1993.
The Place Of Ethics Centers In Higher Education, Douglas Ferraro
The Place Of Ethics Centers In Higher Education, Douglas Ferraro
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, September 28, 1995.
Helping To Harm? The Ethical Dilemmas Of Managing Politically Sensitive Data, Sylvie C. Tourigny
Helping To Harm? The Ethical Dilemmas Of Managing Politically Sensitive Data, Sylvie C. Tourigny
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - March 19, 1993.
Reasonable Children, Michael Pritchard
Reasonable Children, Michael Pritchard
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - May 19, 1993.
Functional Explanation And Metaphysical Individualism, Justin Schwartz
Functional Explanation And Metaphysical Individualism, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
A number of (present or former) analytical Marxists, such as Jon Elster, have argued that functional explanation has almost no place in the social sciences. (Although the discussion is framed in terms of a debate among analytical Marxists, the point is quite general, and Marxism is used for illustrative purposes.) Functional explanation accounts for what is to be explained by reference to its function; thus, sighted organism have eyes because eyes enable them to see. Elster and other critics of functional explanation argue that this pattern of explanation is inconsistent with "methodological individualism," the idea, as they understand it, that …
Lawyer Liability In Third Party Situations: The Meaning Of The Kaye Scholar Case, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Lawyer Liability In Third Party Situations: The Meaning Of The Kaye Scholar Case, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
All Faculty Scholarship
The Kaye Scholer I case has excited much attention and alarm within the legal profession. 2 It is interpreted as greatly expanding the scope of lawyer liability to third parties and heralding much greater regulatory intervention into the relationship between lawyer and client. In some respects this interpretation is accurate. The Kaye Scholer proceeding is at least a "wake up call" to the legal profession, signalling that lawyers should be much more attentive to their legal and ethical obligations in transactional and regulatory matters. However, there is also much misunderstanding about Kaye Scholer, particularly the supposition that it created novel …
Confronting The Ethical Case Against The Ethical Case For Constituency Rights, William W. Bratton
Confronting The Ethical Case Against The Ethical Case For Constituency Rights, William W. Bratton
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.