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Apr 27, 2024 · 4.1.3 Rationalist Principles: Deontological and Consequentialist Theories. In the 1980s, early in the business ethics movement, people tended to propose deontological ethical theories, based on duties or obligations for businesses – with special emphasis on Kantian ethics – and consequentialist theories, which weighed good and bad effects (consequneces), generally assessed in terms of ...
3 days ago · But if you’re into that sort of thing, Meehl briefly introduces some of the characters he’ll return to as examples of theory builders in psychology. In particular, his discussion of B. F. Skinner and Skinner’s dogmatism is helpful as it exemplifies the role of the psychology of the scientist in the philosophy of science.
4 days ago · Close this video player. Morality refers to the set of standards that enable people to live cooperatively in groups. It’s what societies determine to be “right” and “acceptable.”. Sometimes, acting in a moral manner means individuals must sacrifice their own short-term interests to benefit society. Individuals who go against these ...
2 days ago · Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics—such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best viewed in ...
2 days ago · We used the SPAR-4-SLR framework to fill this gap. Our content analysis of 36 articles allowed us to identify three principal themes—well-being beyond consumption, the dilemma of ethical consumption, and consumers’ willingness to pay for sustainability—and pinpoint the relationship between consumer happiness and sustainable consumption.
23 hours ago · Introduction. Fashion, clothes and the body have an intimate relationship. Clothes are situated between the self and the world as a kind of social skin, making intimate information such as the wearer’s gender, sexual orientation, wealth, occupation, ethnic background and their intersections—whether true or untrue—public.
1 day ago · There exist vast and valuable bodies of research in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science on how people define, generate, select, evaluate, and present explanations, which argues that people employ certain cognitive biases and social expectations towards the explanation process 1 1 1 See Malle when it comes to explanation selection, and ...
