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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Deontology"”.
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The Justification of Deontology
Agent-centered restrictions are widely accepted both in commonsense morality and across social and legal institutions, making it all the more striking that we have yet to ground them in a compelling theoretical rationale. This dissertation amounts to an effort to fill that gap by seeking out a new …
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Semantic deontic modeling and text classification for supporting automated environmental compliance checking in construction
… and computational developments in the fields of deontology, deontic logic, and natural language processing (NLP) to the problem of compliance checking in construction. Deontology is a theory of rights and obligations; and deontic logic is a branch of modal logic that deals with obligations, …
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Tragic Moral Conflict and Endangered Species Recovery
… explores whether working from within Kant’s deontology, Ross’s deontology, or utilitarianism excuses environmental ethics for neglecting the problem of tragic moral conflict, or for failing to recognize recovery predicaments as tragic moral conflicts. It asks three questions of each theory. …
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ΠΡΟΣΔΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΓΕΩΜΕΤΡΙΚΩΝ ΜΕΓΕΘΩΝ ΠΟΥ ΟΡΙΟΘΕΤΟΥΝ ΤΗΝ ΑΝΤΟΧΗ ΣΕ ΚΑΜΨΗ ΤΩΝ ΔΟΝΤΙΩΝ ΟΔΟΝΤΩΤΩΝ ΤΡΟΧΩΝ
… A METHODOLOGY CORRESPONDING TO ACADEMIC DEONTOLOGY FOR THE BENDING CALCULATION.
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PERSONALITY AND ETHICAL DECISION: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
… traits relate to the major moral categories of Deontology and the two subcategories of Teleology, namely Egoism and Utilitarianism. Chronological Age, the three personality traits of Allocentrism, Machiavellianism and Long-Term Orientation, and the moderating variable of Biological Sex were …
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The Role of Ethical Evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Perception of Corporate Hypocrisy, the Intention of Opinioned Communication and Behavior toward a Firm
… behavioral intention. With special attention to deontology and consequentialism in normative ethics of philosophy, the current study was to empirically test a theoretical model of perceived corporate hypocrisy with two causal antecedents (i.e., the evaluation of self-orientation and …
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The Ethics of Care of the Self as Resistance to a “Peculiar Institution”
… some of the critiques of modern moral theories (deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics) posed by Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Stocker, Bernard Williams, and Susan Wolf. It focuses on Stocker’s challenge that when subjects try to act on such theories they become self-effacing in that they …
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Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame
… modified by case-by-case salience. Kantian deontology strongly influences at least one such value. The thesis defends this unusual pluralistic version of consequentialism. It hopes to encourage jurists to find common ground based on those values, values themselves deeply rooted in American …
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A study on the ethical structure of Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna: a critique of the consequentialist approach
… ethics around the Awakening is more similar to deontology, and that the consequentialist approach is only plausible based on narrow interpretations of the Awakening.
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
… ethics today, including brief explanations of Deontology, Teleology, and Virtue theory. Discussion in Chapter One focuses on Aristotle's original conception of Virtue Ethics as espoused in his Nicomachean Ethics, and Chapter Two highlights the theories advanced by prominent contemporary …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… and impartial animal ethic operating under deontology or utilitarianism. I’ll show why the care tradition in ethics works as a better framework for companion animals than the justice tradition. In the fourth chapter, I will conclude with a discussion of what an ethic of companionism would …
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Care and Companionism: Animal Ethics at the End of Life
… and impartial animal ethic operating under deontology or utilitarianism. I’ll show why the care tradition in ethics works as a better framework for companion animals than the justice tradition. In the fourth chapter, I will conclude with a discussion of what an ethic of companionism would …
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Permit or Prohibit: An enquiry into the morality of illegal drugs and into their legalisation and decriminalisation
… philosophies is used, namely relativism, Kant’s deontology, consequentialism and virtue ethics. Included here was an assessment of the views of the public on the matter. Research of documentary evidence showed that some European countries had better drug policy outcomes than most. These countries …
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The Effects of the 2008 Financial Recession on Superintendents’ Leadership and Decision Making
… to the interpretive framework of utilitarianism, deontology,</p><p>care, and critique in what lenses did the superintendents' ground their</p><p>decision making?</p><p>4. What are the implications to the field of educational leadership?</p><p>This multi-case study focused on two Illinois K-12 unit …
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Machine Learning in Consumer Credit: Legal, Economic, Ethical & Policy Implications
… balancing tensions between consequentialism and deontology in the context of machine learning design. Chapter 4 presents a comparative legal analysis of the laws in the United States and United Kingdom that regulate the use of algorithmic decision-making in consumer credit. This analysis …
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University teachers' perceptions and evaluations of ethics instruction in public relations curriculum
… systems (e.g., Judeo-Christian ethics, Kantian deontology, utilitarianism, and others) examined in the course; whether and to what extent ethics is not only a teaching, but also a research interest of public relations teachers; and, the most important, whether and to what extent ethics …
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Fully moral artificial agents: future or fiction
… upon three ethical theories—Utilitarianism, Deontology, and African Ubuntu Ethics—and their applicability to the development of fully moral artificial agents. It employs deep learning as a critical component in understanding moral agency within the context of AI. The analysis unfolds in four …
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CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN MORAL DECISION-MAKING
… (intuition-deliberation, emotioncognition, deontology-consequentialism) that, in Greene’s theory, are mapped one upon the other. I argue that the emotion-cognition distinction is not a useful theoretical tool; and I follow the theories of the education of moral intuitions proposed by Jillian …
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Hybrid Concept Formation Through Interaction with a Situated Reasoner
… our understanding of design, professional deontology, and the quest for a design companion. It identifies a profound ix clash between the declarative and protocol-based nature of current computerized tools and the tacit and situated qualities inherent in design. Despite hesitancy in …
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Exploring conflict: the justification of violence
… broad ethical approaches – consequentialism, deontology, contractarianism, and virtue ethics - and applied ethical writing relating to conflict–related harm-doing, including eg Just War Theory. The Model was then reviewed in terms of the literature and the literature in terms of the Model. The …
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