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	20th WCP: Logic and Moral Dilemmas
		Further Lemmon notices with a wit that dilemmas in which we are morally prepared, in which we, so to say, merely have to look up the solution in our private ethical code, are rare and in any case of little practical interest.
		Moral dilemmas are quite real and inevitable in general and in the sphere of education in particular.
		When dilemmas arise this does not obligatory mean that the moral rules were not authentic rules of obligation, for there can be circumstances in which we can default on obligations without incurring blame or moral opprobrium.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Logi/LogiKara.htm (3144 words)

	Moral Dilemmas
		Opponents of dilemmas can say that one of the requirements overrides the other, or that the agent faces a disjunctive requirement, and that regret is appropriate because even when he does what he ought to do, some bad will ensue.
		And their message to supporters of dilemmas is this: “You think that there are genuine moral dilemmas, and given certain facts, it is understandable why this appears to be the case.
		Blackburn, Simon, 1996, “Dilemmas: Dithering, Plumping, and Grief,” in Mason (1996): 127-139.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/moral-dilemmas (7733 words)

	Implicative dilemmas
		Implicative dilemmas are relationships between an individual's constructs which present that person with a dilemma or conflict.
		Such dilemmas may provide an explanation for the maintenance of particular symptoms (Ryle, 1979), and have been associated with lack of response to therapy (e.g.
		A therapeutic method has been developed for the resolution of dilemmas identified from repertory grids, and this is currently being evaluated (Feixas et al., 2000).
	www.pcp-net.org /encyclopaedia/imp-dilemma.html (394 words)

	Society for Philosophy and Technology - volume 1, numbers 3 & 4
		It is likely that this prevented some "sinking lifeboat" dilemmas that would have occurred otherwise.7 And the development of the air bag for automobiles is today preventing serious injuries in automobile accidents and thus also avoiding the ensuing dilemmas about terminating life support for the victims of those accidents.
		Moral dilemmas are situations in which all of our options are undesirable or problematic in some respects, and we find it more difficult to do what is morally right or to know which of our alternatives would be morally right.
		I use the term "moral dilemma" in its traditional meaning i.e., a moral decision in which all the alternatives are undesirable or objectionable to a significant degree.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v1_n3n4/Lockhart.html (4846 words)

	Sample Chapter for Frank, R.H.: What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments.
		And hence the dilemma confronting proponents of rational choice theory: versions that assume narrow self-interest are clearly not descriptive, whereas those to which goals can be added without constraint lack real explanatory power.
		Such dilemmas also include interactions among friends of long standing, as in situations in which partners are unable to discover who is responsible for the bad outcome they experience.) First, it must motivate players to cooperate, even though they would receive higher payoffs by defecting.
		I have argued that cooperation in one-shot prisoner's dilemmas is sustained by bonds of sympathy among trading partners.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7602.html (8652 words)

	The Ninja Doctor Review: Artifacts and Dilemmas "Where No One Has Gone Before"
		Dilemmas as of late have been not flat-out killers like as of the past (A Fast Ship Would Be Nice, Kelvan Show of Force) or big walls (Founder Secret or Hanonian Land Eel).
		Attribute-based dilemmas are basically the set-ups to the killer; they have a hard time staying tough by themselves.
		This is definitely a dilemma that the Feds will have a much easier shot with than other affiliations because many of their ships already have Holodecks, plain and simple.
	www.churchofbrad.com /wnohgb/features/43dilemmas.shtml (5747 words)

	Common and Unique Ethical Dilemmas Encountered by (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The final ethical dilemma is encountered when the best moral choice may not be best for all the individuals involved in the predicament and, in fact, knowingly cause harm to one of the individuals.
		You are faced with the dilemma of honoring her request for privacy and confidentiality or reporting the situation to her unit.
		The dilemma arises because the chosen best moral choice for the social worker may not be best for all individuals involved in the predicament, and, in fact, may knowingly cause harm to one or all of the individuals.
	atlas.usafa.af.mil /jscope/JSCOPE00/Tallant00.html (9055 words)

	Genetic Dilemmas in Primary Care
		Welcome to the website for "Genetic Dilemmas in Primary Care," an educational program about the medical and ethical challenges raised by genetic testing in primary care practice.
		The Genetic Dilemmas program is designed for family physicians, internists, obstetricians and gynecologists, pediatricians and advance practice nurses, as well as other primary care clinicians.
		"Genetic Dilemmas in Primary Care" is a project of The Hastings Center, created in cooperation with Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons.
	www.geneticdilemmas.org (546 words)

	Giddens - Dilemmas of the Self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We can analyse these most easily by understanding them as dilemmas which, on one level or another, have to be resolved in order to preserve a coherent narrative of self-identity.
		If there is one theme which unites nearly all authors who have written on the self in modern society, it is the assertion that the individual experiences feelings of powerlessness in relation to a diverse and large-scale social universe.
		The dilemma of authority versus doubt is ordinarily resolved through a mixture of routine and commitment to a certain form of lifestyle, plus the vesting of trust in a given series of abstract systems.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/courses/GIDDENS.HTML (4951 words)

	Choice Dilemmas and Risk Management Education
		Choice dilemmas, hypothetical life decision situations, can be used to develop a scale that measures one's willingness to assume risk.
		These choice dilemmas, which take 30 to 45 minutes to administer and discuss in a workshop setting, also illustrate the fundamental risk-return trade-off and diversity of risks faced by agricultural producers.
		With the 12 choice dilemmas, the maximum score is 120 (12 times 10) and the minimum score is 12 (12 times 1).
	www.joe.org /joe/2002june/iw1.html (1172 words)

	The Dilemmas of Bicycle Planning
		However, when one begins to investigate the use of bicycles for transportation, one finds that there are a number of dilemmas facing bicyclists and the bicycle planner.
		The first dilemma is that the public has many misconceptions about bicycling, including the skills required, which places are safe for riding, and the rights of bicyclists to use public roads.
		Recently, some localities have taken steps to get beyond these dilemmas; these and other suggestions for improvements are listed in the final section of the paper.
	www.massbike.org /info/dilemma.htm (6873 words)

	ARAFAT'S DUELING DILEMMAS
		The second dilemma: the unresolved peace process threatens to undermine that legitimacy which is already under challenge by factions within and outside of Fatah that oppose the peace process.
		The second dilemma results from the stymied peace process born of the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995.
		More trenchant therefore is the dilemma of the Arafat regime in seeking to succeed at the peace process that the challengers to the regime oppose and thereby would use to threaten the very legitimacy of the regime.
	meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2002/issue1/jv6n1a5.html (4701 words)

	The Moral Dilemmas of Young Professionals : HBS Working Knowledge
		The study looked at on-the-job moral dilemmas faced by a hundred professionals between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five in three professions: journalism, science, and acting.
		These ethical dilemmas played out differently depending on age, profession, workplace settings, personality, and available support structures, but the tensions often caused individuals to act in ways that conflicted with the values and intentions they espoused for their work.
		Even though young professionals described values such as honesty, integrity, and professional relationships as important to them, they were willing to compromise these values in order to satisfy a professional demand, compete with their peers for recognition, or gain rewards for their long hours and low pay.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item.jhtml?id=4239&t=career_effectiveness&nl=y (2184 words)

	The Generalized Structure of Ethical Dilemmas
		Many moral dilemmas are dilemmas because of a certain kind of conflict between the rightness or wrongness of the actions and the goodness or badness of the consequences of the actions.
		Such moral dilemmas cannot simply be "solved." Ethical theories that seem to provide clear cut solutions will leave out some aspect of moral life: teleological theories leave out the dimension of the moral judgment of action, while deontological theories may deny that consequences are of any concern.
		If, however, she were a morally callous person who didn't care about the dilemmas or about what she did, then it would not be an appealing or tragic story, as it is. The whole project of examining moral dilemmas is a relatively modern one.
	www.friesian.com /dilemma.htm (3814 words)

	Paradoxes and Dilemmas
		This paradox is quite representative of the general problem of the Social Dilemmas which I discuss here and has to do with the fact that an individual's vote has no significant impact on the outcome of an election.
		In particular, it is often claimed that in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game if the number of plays is finite then rational players must defect on the first play due to the same backwards inductive logic as used in the Unexpected Execution Paradox.
		The Bureaucrat's Dilemma is characterized, then, by the impossibility of assigning a logical and defensible breakpoint to a continuous function yet the breakpoint must be assigned to be fair to those who's lives are affected by the value of the breakpoint.
	perspicuity.net /paradox/paradox.html (2955 words)

	DGMA::2nd Edition Strategy: Dilemmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Costs of dilemmas range from 1 to 5, with an average cost of 2.7.
		When you attempt this mission again, after your opponent draws dilemmas, he or she may take this dilemma and add it to those drawn.
		Most of the above mentioned dilemmas are rather expensive, which means they were designed very well J, so you’d better not use them all in the same dilemma pile.
	www.dgma.com /content?id=281 (1070 words)

	CSE Research - Future Dilemmas
		Future Dilemmas is a technical report that encapsulates the results of this research, which was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA).
		Future Dilemmas explores the consequences of these three scenarios for people, urban infrastructure, the natural environment, energy, water and a broad range of other issues.
		Future Dilemmas: options to 2050 for Australia's population, technology, resources and environment was officially launched on Thursday 7 November 2002 by the Hon Philip Ruddock, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs.
	www.cse.csiro.au /research/futuredilemmas (499 words)

	CBBC Newsround \| CONFIDENCE RESPONSIBILITY \| Dilemmas and dealing with them - Money
		Recap on the main teaching points and discuss the answers the students have written for each of the situations.
		A moral dilemma involves a situation in which there are only two courses of action.
		The man is faced with a dilemma - if he keeps his promise, then he will be an accessory to a murder.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/cbbcnews/hi/teachers/pshe_11_14/subject_areas/confidence_responsibility/newsid_1741000/1741150.stm (293 words)

	Dilemmas
		If unmanaged dilemmas are creating problems in your organization, we would be delighted to consult with you to develop the understanding and skills needed in your organization to manage dilemmas for competitive advantage.
		A dilemma is a pair of apparently contradictory goals BOTH of which are valuable to the organization.
		Managing Dilemmas focuses on on-going approaches that maximize the benefits of both sides of a dilemma while minimizing the drawbacks of pursuing either side alone.
	www.geoffballfacilitator.com /dilemmas.html (583 words)

	Ethical Dilemmas: choosing between two rights
		Then the dilemma can move to a solution, where one of the rights is preferred over the other one.
		Ethical dilemmas are termed in the form of _____v.
		The diverse, multicultural population that constitutes today's work force faces ethical dilemmas on the job that bring pressures to protect their own or their company's interests, at the risk of losing their personal integrity.
	www.learnwell.org /dilemmas.htm (1444 words)

	Research at HP Labs : Information Dynamics Lab : Research Areas : Multiagent Systems : Social Dilemmas
		The problem of social dilemmas for autonomous agents is how to encourage cooperative behavior in which individuals sacrifice for the overall benefit of the group.
		A general description of social dilemmas showing how cooperation depends on the size of the group and the individual expectations of future interactions
		Social dilemmas relating to the provision of public goods can arise in distributed computational systems even when all agents are designed with a single overall goal.
	www.hpl.hp.com /shl/projects/multiagent/dilemmas (250 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 101 Ethical Dilemmas: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The second half of the book is a detailed discussion section revealing the relationship of the dilemmas to philosophical and religious traditions and generally giving the dilemmas a more thorough going over.
		Many of the dilemmas are obviously profound, others appear to be entertaining, trivial diversions, but because they are all short and easily digestible the temptation is to read the whole of the first part quickly and without regard for the fact that each one captures a real and difficult ethical dilemma worth mulling over.
		The best way to use the book is to take the dilemmas slowly, one by one (or at most, group by group) and to try to resolve them for yourself.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415261279 (843 words)

	Kohlberg dilemmas
		Her mother promised her that she could go to a special rock concert coming to their town if she saved up from baby-sitting and lunch money to buy a ticket to the concert.
		What do you think is the most important thing a daughter should be concerned about in her relationship to her mother?
		In thinking back over the dilemma, what would you say is the most responsible thing for Heinz to do?
	www.haverford.edu /psych/ddavis/p109g/kohlberg.dilemmas.html (1184 words)

	The Social Dilemmas
		The Prisoner's Dilemma is a short parable about two prisoners who are individually offered a chance to rat on each other for which the "ratter" would receive a lighter sentence and the "rattee" would receive a harsher sentence.
		In his book, Prisoner's Dilemma, William Poundstone tells of several forms of this dilemma but the classic example is given by the story about what soldiers in a trench are suppose to do if a live grenade falls into it.
		Elinor Ostrom, in her book Governing the Commons, discusses this problem of "Dilemmas nested inside dilemmas" stating, "Because supplying a new set of rules is the equivalent of providing another public good, the problem faced by a set of principals is that obtaining these new rules is a second-order collective dilemma." (Emphasis added).
	perspicuity.net /sd/sd.html (5426 words)

	Learning dynamics in social dilemmas -- Macy and Flache 99 (Supplement 3): 7229 -- Proceedings of the National Academy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This outcome is Pareto deficient in all social dilemmas, that
		dilemmas in which each side is satisfied if the partner cooperates.
		The dilemma is that dissatisficing and satisficing are complementary
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/99/suppl_3/7229 (5910 words)

	Amazon.com: The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse: Books: Katherine L. Hughes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The dilemmas are particularly acute for dual-career couples, whether in the Foreign Service, the military, or business.
		In The Accidental Diplomat: Dilemmas of the Trailing Spouse, Katherine Hughes presents a detailed analysis of the situation of Foreign Service spouses.
		Based on over forty interviews with Foreign Service wives, as well as interviews with male spouses and tandem couples, the book traces the history of the role of the wife in the U.S. Foreign Service and describes how the lives of Foreign Service wives are constrained and determined by their husbands profession.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0963926071?v=glance (1263 words)

	Some Moral Dilemmas
		The question to consider with all of these is why they are dilemmas.
		Some, however, may not seem to be dilemmas at all.
		In 1842, a ship struck an iceberg and more than 30 survivors were crowded into a lifeboat intended to hold 7.
	www.friesian.com /valley/dilemmas.htm (2608 words)

	Social Dilemmas — www.greenwood.com
		This book is likely to be most useful to those seeking an introduction to the concepts and methods of social dilemmas research through the late 1980s....I believe that the editor has succeeded in assembling in one place a collection of essays that fit well with the integrative model contained in the final chapter
		The decisions made by those facing social dilemmas are affected by many factors, and the contributors to this book have explored the diverse processes that ultimately lead an individual to choose between self-interest and the well-being of the community.
		By gaining a better appreciation of the variables that affect decisions made by those caught in social dilemmas, more effective ways to encourage greater cooperation and to promote the common good may be found.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C2392 (336 words)

	Bliss Street Journal - The Blog: Two Dilemmas
		Hezbollah drew more than 500,000 people to Beirut's streets March 8 in a mass demonstration designed in part to show gratitude to Syria as Damascus faces vocal demands to withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
		Hezbollah, on the other hand, appears safe after its March 8 demonstration of strength to the world, regardless of which option the opposition selects from its current dilemma.
		Hezbollah also has successfully warded off the threat posed to it by the potential implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559, which calls for the complete withdrawal of Syrian forces and the disarmament of all Lebanese militias.
	blissstreetjournal.blogspot.com /2005/03/two-dilemmas.html (1393 words)

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