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Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...

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When Is Whistleblowing Morally Required? The ethical theories used in this article to justify whistleblowing are Kantian (duty), virtue, and utilitarian (Bolsin et al., 2005; Grant, 2002; Kline, 2006) ...

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What makes humans conscious? Scientists disagree, strongly, as one group of peacemakers discovered the hard way. By Carl Zimmer Consciousness may be a mystery, but that doesn’t mean that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, I consider some of the similarities and differences between deontologism in ethics and epistemology. In particular, I ...