Accountability and responsibility in research.Patricia K. Woolf -1991 -Journal of Business Ethics 10 (8):595 - 600.detailsFraud and misconduct in scientific research appears to be increasing since 1980 when several cases were disclosed. Earlier instances were handled awkwardly, but the scientific community has since mobilized and issued guidelines about responding to allegations of misconduct and about the responsible conduct of research. Scientists, editors and the institutions of science are slowly learning how to cope with this problem.
Employment and Employee Rights.Patricia Werhane,Tara J. Radin &Norman E. Bowie -2003 - Wiley-Blackwell.details_Employment and Employee Rights_ addresses the issue of rights in the workplace. Although much of the literature in this field focuses on employee rights, this volume considers the issue from the perspective of both employees and employers. Considers the rights of both employees and employers. Discusses the moral and legal landscape and traditional assumptions about right in employment. Investigates arguments for guaranteeing rights, particularly for employees, which are derived from relational, developmental, and economic bases. Explores new dimensions of employment including (...) a model that incorporates growing workplace diversity, builds upon our understanding of the legal landscape, and expands upon our justifications for recognizing and protecting rights. (shrink)
Confusion in cladism.Patricia A. Williams -1992 -Synthese 91 (1-2):135 - 152.detailsIn Phylogenetic Systematics (1966), Willi Hennig conflates the Linnaean hierarchy with what Hennig refers to as the divisional hierarchy. In doing so, he lays the foundations of that school of biological taxonomy known as cladism on a philosophically ambiguous basis. This paper compares and contrasts the two hierarchies and demonstrates that Hennig conflates them. It shows that Hennig's followers also conflate them. Finally, it illuminates five persistent problems in cladism by suggesting that they arise from Hennig's original confusion.
Seeing a Colour-blind Future: The Paradox of Race.Patricia J. Williams -1997detailsA collection of lectures which focussed on the small, constant aggressions of racism.
(1 other version)Women Leaders in a Globalized World.Patricia H. Werhane -2007 -Journal of Business Ethics 74 (4):425-435.detailsThis article will defend a very simple thesis. In a diverse globalized “flat” world with expanding economic opportunities and risks, we will need to revisit and revise our mindsets about free enterprise, corporate governance, and leadership. That we can change our mindsets and world view is illustrated by studies of primate behavior, and the kind of leadership necessary in a global economy is, interestingly, exemplified by women.
Um estudo transgeracional sobre o luto.Daniela Soletti Musachio &Patrícia Ruschel Daudt -2003 -Aletheia: An International Journal of Philosophy 17:123-134.detailsEste estudo investigou a transmissão de sentimentos frente a situações de luto de 27 mulheres ao longo de três gerações. Após a pré-seleção de mulheres que conheciam histórias de morte em sua família, aplicou-se um questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas. O coeficiente de Friedman indicou mais..
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Humanisation, democracy and trust: The democratisation of the school ethos.Patricia White -1991 -Studies in Philosophy and Education 11 (1):11-16.detailsA democratic state is characterised by more than its particular principles and institutions; its citizens must have the democratic virtues and attitudes. One such important attitude is trust, as commentators on the current attempts to create democratic institutions in the USSR emphasise. The paper gives an account of social trust and also the important, though problematic, role that distrust plays in a democracy. Finally the paper considers how the school can instantiate social trust in its own ethos.
Spheres of Awareness: A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art.James Lough &Patricia Herron (eds.) -2009 - Upa.detailsThis book moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber, unites the best of both western and eastern thought and affirms that the stages of consciousness, more refined than that of the reasoning mind, do exist.
Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece: everything you always wanted to know about Ancient Greek philosophy but didn't know who to ask.Patricia F. O'Grady (ed.) -2005 - Ashgate.detailsAn accessible guide to philosophy, presenting a collection of 70 essays covering the major themes, theories and arguments of the most prominent thinkers of ancient Greece.
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Fraud and deception: A response to Gedeon Rossouw.Patricia Werhane -2000 -Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 9 (4):273–275.detailsThis response addresses the question: how can ethical values play a role in combating fraud? Three points are made. Firstly, ethical values are both self‐ and other‐related. Secondly, changing the prevalence of fraudulent behaviours requires not only a reduction in opportunity for fraud but also a change in mindset of the perpetrators. Thirdly, that change in mindset involves the recognition that there are personal and organizational advantages to be gained by not contributing to or abetting fraudulent behaviour. This latter point (...) is illustrated with reference to the experience of Unilever where sustainable development is seen as contributing to the creation of long‐term shareholder value. (shrink)
Globalization and Its Challenges for Business and Business Ethics in the Twenty‐first Century.Patricia H. Werhane -2012 -Business and Society Review 117 (3):383-405.detailsThe global expansion of free enterprise has been underway for some time, and the challenges for global companies are well‐known. Companies often operate in economically blighted communities and in corrupt environments without a rule of law. At the same time Western‐based global corporations are under increasing public pressure to take on responsibilities to these communities that are often beyond their expertise or economic purview. For example, at the 2008 Davos meetings Bill Gates proposed the idea of “creative capitalism, challenging business (...) to ‘meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits’...” In what follows I shall argue that while there have been many successful global ventures, the Gates’ challenge requires academics and managerial leaders to rethink their mind sets and expand their thinking about what we mean by globalization, poverty, and the multiple dimensions of free enterprise. (shrink)
Evolution of the multi‐tubulin hypothesis.Patricia G. Wilson &Gary G. Borisy -1997 -Bioessays 19 (6):451-454.detailsMicrotubules are organized into diverse cellular structures in multicellular organisms. How is such diversity generated? Although highly conserved overall, variable regions within α‐ and β‐tubulins show divergence from other α‐ and β‐tubulins in the same species, but show conservation among different species. Such conservation raises the question of whether diversity in tubulin structure mediates diversity in microtubule organization. Recent studies probing the function of β‐tubulin isotypes in axonemes of insects(1) suggest that tubulin structure, through interactions with extrinsic proteins, can direct (...) the architecture and supramolecular organization of microtubules. (shrink)
Evolution, Sociobiology, and the Atonement.Patricia A. Williams -1998 -Zygon 33 (4):557-570.detailsThis essay views Christian doctrines of the atonement in the light of evolution and sociobiology. It argues that most of the doctrines are false because they use a false premise, the historicity of Adam and the Fall. However, two doctrines are not false on those grounds: Abelard’s idea that Jesus’ life is an example and Athanasius’s concept that the atonement changes human nature. Employing evolution’s and sociobiology’s concepts of the egocentric and ethnocentric nature of humanity and the synergy between genes (...) and environments to produce a "nature," this essay shows that these two doctrines can be amalgamated to make sense of the atonement in the late twentieth century. (shrink)