Ted Lockhart

Under what conditions is it ethically acceptable for corporations to market consumer products in foreign countries in order to circumvent domestic safety and health regulations? In this paper, I argue that the standards of consumer product safety that corporations should follow can vary from one country to another and are largely determined by the levels of risk that each country's consumers may reasonably accept in order to own or use those products. I develop my conclusions in part by analyzing the case of an American corporation’s selling children’s clothing in Africa that domestic regulations prohibit selling in the United States.

We are often uncertain how to behave morally in complex situations. In this controversial study, Ted Lockhart contends that moral philosophy has failed to address how we make such moral decisions. Adapting decision theory to the task of decision-making under moral uncertainly, he proposes that we should not always act how we feel we ought to act, and that sometimes we should act against what we feel to be morally right. Lockhart also discusses abortion extensively and proposes new ways to deal with the ethical and moral issues which surround it.