Category: Ethics

How do we ensure ethically robust mental health research in the time of COVID-19 and how best can researchers involve people with lived experience in the design of research as it transitions to the digital world?

504 Week 7

Discussion Prompt Option 1: Mental Health Research

How do we ensure ethically robust mental health research in the time of COVID-19 and how best can researchers involve people with lived experience in the design of research as it transitions to the digital world?

Discussion Prompt Option 2: Data Privacy and Potential for Misuse

What are some of the potential problems with privacy and misuse or misunderstanding of public health data? What ethical considerations must be taken into account?

What is the distinction between privacy and confidentiality? How much weight should they have when information about individuals could protect other individuals or public health?

504 Week 2 discussion

What is the distinction between privacy and confidentiality? How much weight should they have when information about individuals could protect other individuals or public health?

Do you think that we in fact have duties of solidarity to our political community even though we (or most people any way) were not given a choice to be here? If so, why? If not, why not?

Solidarity

Duties of solidarity are duties that individuals have toward the community, what Wadell calls “social justice.” These would be duties to pay taxes to fund programs to help the poor or to support laws that help reduce the impact of luck (the natural lottery) in enabling people to live good lives.

Here is the question:

Do you think that we in fact have duties of solidarity to our political community even though we (or most people any way) were not given a choice to be here? If so, why? If not, why not?

 

Compare and contrast the main points of similarity and the main points of divergence between ethical relativism, existentialism, social norm based ethics and virtue ethics. Identify what you see as the main strengths and the main weaknesses of each theory. Is there one of these ethical theories that you would advocate over the others? Explain why or why not.

Compare and contrast the main points of similarity and the main points of divergence between ethical relativism, existentialism, social norm based ethics and virtue ethics. Identify what you see as the main strengths and the main weaknesses of each theory. Is there one of these ethical theories that you would advocate over the others? Explain why or why not.

Explain this distinction and then apply it to the various ethical systems we have studied so far this semester, discussing how you would categorize them. Discuss some of the complications that might be involved in making clear and unambiguous classifications of these theories.

One of the major, traditional distinctions in ethics is that between consequentialist and non-consequentialist theories.

Explain this distinction and then apply it to the various ethical systems we have studied so far this semester, discussing how you would categorize them. Discuss some of the complications that might be involved in making clear and unambiguous classifications of these theories.

Is that a fair situation where John and Joan are doing equal work, but Joan is getting paid a lot more than John, when the pay differential is the result of market demand for Joan’s gender? How should Joan’s and John’s agency bear on your judgment about fairness?

Libertarianism and Gender Inequality

Is that a fair situation where John and Joan are doing equal work, but Joan is getting paid a lot more than John, when the pay differential is the result of market demand for Joan’s gender? How should Joan’s and John’s agency bear on your judgment about fairness? Both are getting paid what they thought made it worthwhile to work at the particular company. Both agreed to their respective pay.