Applied ethics : old wine in new bottles?

✍ Scribed by Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy

• Publisher: Hokkaido University
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of essays is the final summation of the Fifth International Conference
on Applied Ethics held at Hokkaido University on November 5-7, 2010. The
conference was organised by the Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Graduate
School of Letters, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan).
The purpose of this collection is to bring together the wide-ranging papers on
various fields of applied ethics presented at the conference.
It is our hope that this collection will contribute to further developments in research
on applied ethics and promote our Center’s mission, which is ‘to bridge the gap
between theory and practice’

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction iii
Contributors iv

Moral Disagreement, Moral Realism, and Vagueness---------------------------------------1
Thomas ADAJIAN
Well-being, Desire, and the Problem of ‘Miswanting’:
Rethinking the Philosophical Theories of Well-being and
the Practice of Informed Consent in View of Psychological Studies----------------- 13
Makoto SUZUKI
Moral Realism and Moral Disagreement: An Alternative Account--------------------- 23
Laura SPECKER
Responsible Research?------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33
Carwyn Rhys HOOPER
Human Enhancement and Human Nature------------------------------------------------ 40
Takeshi SATO
The Relationship between Neuro-Intervention of Memory and
Moral Responsibility------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53
Wanling CHOU
Biocentrism and Synthetic Biology--------------------------------------------------------- 62
Sune HOLM
“Society in Science”: the DePGx Project and the Democratization of
Health Policy Strategies through Public Deliberation---------------------------------- 75
Claudio CORRADETTI, Gillian BARTLETT-ESQUILANT
Moral Obligations of States------------------------------------------------------------------ 86
Anne SCHWENKENBECHER
Honor in the Military and the Possible Implication for
the Traditional Separation of Jus Ad Bellum and Jus In Bello------------------------- 94
Jacob BLAIR
Race-Based Welfare and Multiracialism--------------------------------------------------- 103
James GARRISON
How to Evaluate Justice Using Nussbaum’s Capabilities List? ------------------------- 113
Lydia de TIENDA PALOP
Pragmatism, Participation and Powersliding: On the Reciprocal
Relationship between Environmental Ethics Thinking and Practice---------------- 123
Leslie MABON
An Oriental Perspective on the Ethical Issue of
Physician-Assisted Suicide from Taiwanese Point of View---------------------------- 139
Su-Chen LEE
Reaching and Engaging Employees through Business Ethics Training :
A Study of Two Organizations to Enumerate Various Practices and
Innovations in Business Ethics Training------------------------------------------------- 148
Namrata JAJOO, Ranjeet KAKKAD, Rhishikesh DATAR
Manga, Virtual Child Pornography, and Censorship in Japan------------------------ 165
Chris MATHEWS
A Study of Defensive Medicine in Japan-------------------------------------------------- 175
Sakura YAHATA
Revision of Organ Transplantation Law in Japan: Brain Death,
Presumed Consent, and Donation of Children’s Organs------------------------------ 186
Keiko YASUOKA
Parental Involvement and Children’s Perception of Competence:
From Gender Perspectives----------------------------------------------------------------- 199
Takayo SASAKI