Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.5324/eip.v16i1.4935
A. Alvarez, E. D. Stabell, M. Thorseth
{"title":"Freedom to avoid harm","authors":"A. Alvarez, E. D. Stabell, M. Thorseth","doi":"10.5324/eip.v16i1.4935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v16i1.4935","url":null,"abstract":"The editorial introduces original articles, a commentary and book review.","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82557164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.5324/eip.v16i1.4919
Efren Alverio II
{"title":"Revisiting the limits of free speech: Lavik's ban on climate denialism","authors":"Efren Alverio II","doi":"10.5324/eip.v16i1.4919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v16i1.4919","url":null,"abstract":"A commentary on Trygve Lavik's article \"Climate change denial, freedom of speech and global justice\".","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77043138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.5324/eip.v16i1.4112
Bouke de Vries
{"title":"Lowering Toilet Seats","authors":"Bouke de Vries","doi":"10.5324/eip.v16i1.4112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v16i1.4112","url":null,"abstract":"Many people who stand to pee raise the toilet seat so that they have a larger target to aim at. However, if the seat is left in this position, any subsequent toilet user who defecates or pees sitting down will need to lower the seat. Some of us believe that this inconvenience should not be visited on those who pee sitting down, while others deny that there is anything wrong with leaving the toilet seat in the position that you used it. This article offers the first scholarly defense of the seat-down norm. In so doing, it shows that recent claims that this norm would be unfair and inefficient are unwarranted.\u0000Keywords: Toilet seats; Toilets; Bathrooms; Gender Inequality; Urination; Defecation; Expensive tastes; Stehpinkler; Sitzpinkler","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85841104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2022-06-23DOI: 10.5324/eip.v16i1.4822
B. Hofmann
{"title":"Evidens, estetikk og etikk","authors":"B. Hofmann","doi":"10.5324/eip.v16i1.4822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v16i1.4822","url":null,"abstract":"Helsevesenet har blitt en sentral samfunnsaktør og medisinen dets førende fag. Hvordan har det blitt slik? En grunn er at medisinen fører sammen sfærer som ellers har vært adskilt: det sanne, det skjønne og det gode. Medisinen som fag og helsevesenet som institusjon, har blitt et fascinerende skjæringspunkt nettopp mellom evidens, estetikk og etikk. Her kobles kunnskap til det som er vondt og skjønnhet til det som er friskt. Kunnskapsproduksjonen dirigeres ut fra ønsket om å gjøre det gode ved å unngå det vonde. Samtidig styres helsevesenets normer også av estetikkens normer. Koblingene mellom evidens, estetikk og etikk gir noen grunnleggende utfordringer, som det er viktig at vi oppmerksomme på. Riktig håndtert gjør de helsevesenet generelt og medisinen spesielt til et fascinerende og fruktbart skjæringspunkt mellom det sanne, det skjønne og det gode.","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84700597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.5324/eip.v15i2.4537
A. Alvarez, Espen Dyrnes Stabell, G. Koksvik, M. Thorseth
{"title":"Fostering hope and resilience amidst intractable ethical dilemmas brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"A. Alvarez, Espen Dyrnes Stabell, G. Koksvik, M. Thorseth","doi":"10.5324/eip.v15i2.4537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v15i2.4537","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue of Etikk i Praksis – Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics features four articles that address a number of urgent ethical issues that arise in the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75080300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.5324/eip.v15i2.4093
Attila Tanyi, M. Egan
{"title":"The ”foreign” virus?","authors":"Attila Tanyi, M. Egan","doi":"10.5324/eip.v15i2.4093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v15i2.4093","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the COVID pandemic, the Norwegian government implemented the strictest border controls in modern Norwegian history, barring entry to most foreign nationals. The Prime Minister, Erna Solberg, justified these policies with reference to the rise of new COVID variants and the need to limit visitors to Norway as much as possible. As this approach has severe adverse effects on many people, there is a need to critically examine the justification given for closing the border. In this paper, we argue that while many border restrictions are legitimate, (1) the arguments given for the recent banning of entry for groups of people are not convincing, and (2) that the ban unduly limits personal freedoms and places an unjust burden on transnational citizens and Norwegians with close relations abroad.\u0000Keywords: COVID-19, Border Closure, Border Restrictions, Justice, Sovereignty, Nationalism, Immigration, Freedom, Ignorance","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83511421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2021-12-20DOI: 10.5324/eip.v15i2.4092
N. Emmerich, Patrick O. McConville
{"title":"Reverse Triage and People Whose Disabilities Render Them Dependent on Ventilators","authors":"N. Emmerich, Patrick O. McConville","doi":"10.5324/eip.v15i2.4092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v15i2.4092","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has occasioned a great deal of ethical reflection both in general and on the issue of reverse triage; a practice that effectively reallocates resources from one patient to another on the basis of the latter having a more favourable clinical prognosis. This paper addresses a specific concern that has arisen in relation to such proposals: the potential reallocation of ventilators relied upon by disabled or chronically ill patients. This issue is examined via three morally parallel scenarios. First, the standard reallocation of a ventilator in accordance with reverse triage protocols; second, the reallocation of a personal ventilator from a chronically ill patient ordinarily reliant on it; and, third, the reallocation of a personal ventilator owned by a financially privileged individual but who is not ordinarily reliant on it. This paper suggests that whilst property rights cannot resolve these scenarios in a satisfactory manner, it may be possible to do so if we draw on the resources of phenomenology. However, in contradistinction to a recent paper on this topic (Reynolds et al. 2021), we argue that ethical claims to ventilators are not well grounded by the overly demanding notion that they are embodied objects. We suggest that the alternative phenomenological notion of homelikeness provides for a more plausible resolution of the issue. The personal ventilators of individuals who commonly rely upon them become part of their ordinary, everyday or homelike being. They are a necessary part of the continuation or maintenance of their basic state of health or wellbeing and the reallocation of such objects is unethical.\u0000Keywords: Phenomenology, COVID-19, Pandemic, Triage, Reverse triage, Ventilation, Chronic illness, Allocation of resources","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79054939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.5324/eip.v15i2.4097
S. A. Horn, Mathias Barra, O. Norheim, C. Solberg
{"title":"Public health priority setting: A case for priority to the worse off in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"S. A. Horn, Mathias Barra, O. Norheim, C. Solberg","doi":"10.5324/eip.v15i2.4097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v15i2.4097","url":null,"abstract":"In Norway, priority for health interventions is assigned on the basis of three official criteria: health benefit, resources, and severity. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have mainly happened through intersectoral public health efforts such as lockdowns, quarantines, information campaigns, social distancing and, more recently, vaccine distribution. The aim of this article is to evaluate potential priority setting criteria for public health interventions. We argue in favour of the following three criteria for public health priority setting: benefit, resources and improving the well-being of the worse off. We argue that benefits and priority to the worse off may reasonably be understood in terms of individual well-being, rather than only health, for public health priority setting. We argue that lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic support our conclusions.\u0000Keywords: COVID-19, Prioritarianism, Priority Setting, Public Health, Severity","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89684993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.5324/eip.v15i2.4083
Krister Bykvist
{"title":"Comments on Rozas","authors":"Krister Bykvist","doi":"10.5324/eip.v15i2.4083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v15i2.4083","url":null,"abstract":"This is a commentary to Mat Rozas \"Two asymmetries in population and general normative ethics\".","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78338142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Etikk I PraksisPub Date : 2021-06-18DOI: 10.5324/eip.v15i1.4036
A. Alvarez, E. D. Stabell, M. Thorseth
{"title":"What our hopes and fears tell us about our values","authors":"A. Alvarez, E. D. Stabell, M. Thorseth","doi":"10.5324/eip.v15i1.4036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5324/eip.v15i1.4036","url":null,"abstract":"This open issue of the Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics consists of four papers that discuss topics covering fetal diagnostics ethics, value conflicts in the use of artificial intelligence, abortion and population ethics.","PeriodicalId":42362,"journal":{"name":"Etikk I Praksis","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84062227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}