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    Avoiding the voter's paradox democratically
    Theory and Decision 5 (3): 295-311. 1974.
    This paper is concerned with selecting an appropriate perspective from which to understand and evaluate social-decision procedures. Distinguishing between "agent rationality" and "option-rationality", the author argues that a rational agent may choose a social-decision procedure that is not itself agent-rational (but merely option-rational). The argument puts the voter's paradox in a context allowing evaluation of (a) its general import and (b) practical proposals for avoiding it in particular…Read more
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    The Special Role of Professionals in Business Ethics
    Business and Professional Ethics Journal 7 (2): 51-62. 1988.
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    Selected Bibliography
    with Frederick A. Elliston
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (1): 31-40. 1988.
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    Columbia, Hamlet, and Apollo 13
    Teaching Ethics 4 (1): 77-79. 2003.
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    The Mysterious Ethics of High-Frequency Trading
    with Ricky Cooper and Ben Van Vliet
    Business Ethics Quarterly 26 (1): 1-22. 2016.
    ABSTRACT:The ethics of high frequency trading are obscure, due in part to the complexity of the practice. This article contributes to the existing literature of ethics in financial markets by examining a recent trend in regulation in high frequency trading, the prohibition of deception. We argue that in the financial markets almost any regulation, other than the most basic, tends to create a moral hazard and increase information asymmetry. Since the market’s job is, at least in part, price disco…Read more
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    Technical Decisions
    Business and Professional Ethics Journal 11 (3-4): 41-55. 1992.
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    Professional Autonomy
    Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 441-460. 1996.
    Employed professionals (e.g., accountants or engineers)-and those who study them-sometimes claim that their status as employeesdenies them the “autonomy” necessary to be “true professionals.” Is this a conceptual claim or an empirical claim? How might it be proved or disproved? This paper draws on recent work on autonomy to try to answer these questions. In the course of doing that, it identifies three literatures concerned with autonomy and suggests an approach bringing them together in a way l…Read more
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    Professional Autonomy
    Business Ethics Quarterly 6 (4): 441-460. 1996.
    Employed professionals (e.g., accountants or engineers)-and those who study them-sometimes claim that their status as employeesdenies them the “autonomy” necessary to be “true professionals.” Is this a conceptual claim or an empirical claim? How might it be proved or disproved? This paper draws on recent work on autonomy to try to answer these questions. In the course of doing that, it identifies three literatures concerned with autonomy and suggests an approach bringing them together in a way l…Read more
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    The Price of a Person
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (1): 105-114. 2016.
    While we’re inclined to think that a person is “above all price,” we in fact make a lot of decisions that seem to set a price on persons—or, at least, on their life. For example, I was recently involved with setting standards for buildings in areas susceptible to earthquakes. The consensus seemed to be $3/sq. ft. increase in construction cost was reasonable, more than that was not, even though lives could be saved if the standard were higher, assuring the survival of more buildings. Though the F…Read more
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    Method in punishment theory
    Law and Philosophy 15 (4). 1996.
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    Replacement as a Problem for the Justification of Preventive Detention
    Criminal Justice Ethics 30 (1): 90-97. 2011.
    What makes Don E. Scheid's article on indefinite detention interesting is that he thinks through many of the moral issues inherent in attempting to prevent certain k...
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    Three Nuclear Disasters and a Hurricane : Some Reflections on Engineering Ethics
    Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 4 1-10. 2012.
    The nuclear disaster that Japan suffered at Fukushima in the months following March 11, 2011 has been compared with other major nuclear disasters, especially, Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl (1986). It is more like Chernobyl in severity, the only other 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale; more like Three Mile Island in long-term effects. Yet Fukushima is not just another nuclear disaster. In ways important to engineering ethics, it is much more like Katrina’s destruction of New Orl…Read more
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    Review of Physicians at War: The Dual-Loyalties Challenge (review)
    Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 3 (2). 2009.
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    Report Cards
    with Christopher Meyers, Lisa H. Newton, and Elliot D. Cohen
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics 19 (3-4): 161-165. 2004.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    The New World of Research Ethics
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 5 (1): 1-10. 1990.
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    Introduction: Exigent decision-making in engineering
    with Michael Pritchard, Taft H. Broome, Vivian Weil, Michael S. Pritchard, Joseph R. Herkert, and Taft Broome
    Science and Engineering Ethics 5 (4): 541-567. 1999.
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    The One-Sided Obligations of Journalism
    Journal of Mass Media Ethics 19 (3-4): 207-222. 2004.
    Barger and Barney (2004/this issue) offered a number of reasons for the public, the news media, and journalism to develop special, mutually supportive standards of conduct. However, they imbedded these reasonable suggestions in an argument that claims far more than can be delivered. In explaining what is wrong with their argument, I place journalistic ethics within a general theory of professional ethics.
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    Preventive detention, Corrado, and me
    Criminal Justice Ethics 15 (2): 13-24. 1996.
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    Trumping Conflicts of Interest
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 31 (1): 9-20. 2017.
    As President, Donald Trumps faces two sorts of conflict of interest. The first are conflicts of interest other Presidents also faced, though Trump’s are “writ large.” These seem—as a practical matter—unavoidable now, hard to escape, not to be much changed by disclosure, and not even much subject to management. The other sort of conflict of interest seems to be without resolution even in principle while Trump remains both President and the person he is. These conflicts of interest are the product…Read more
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    Vocational Teachers, Confidentiality And Professional Ethics
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (1): 11-20. 1988.
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    Second Thoughts on Multi-Culturalism
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 11 (1): 29-34. 1996.
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    Corporate Rights to Free Speech
    Business and Professional Ethics Journal 5 (3-4): 5-22. 1986.
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    Much has been written about recidivist punishments, particularly within the area of criminology. However there is a notorious lack of penal philosophical reflection on this issue. This book attempts to fill that gap by presenting the philosopher’s view on this matter as a way of furthering the debate on recidivist punishments
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    Trumping Conflicts of Interest
    International Journal of Applied Philosophy 31 (1): 9-20. 2017.
    As President, Donald Trumps faces two sorts of conflict of interest. The first are conflicts of interest other Presidents also faced, though Trump’s are “writ large.” These seem—as a practical matter—unavoidable now, hard to escape, not to be much changed by disclosure, and not even much subject to management. The other sort of conflict of interest seems to be without resolution even in principle while Trump remains both President and the person he is. These conflicts of interest are the product…Read more
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    This book looks to establish worldwide technical and ethical standards of engineering as an occupation. The author is the most senior thinker in this field and has spent much of his career developing this thesis.
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    Commentary / Rank has no privilege
    Criminal Justice Ethics 22 (2): 38-43. 2003.