Today's increased attention to integrity can be regarded as part of a more comprehensive professional culture. Yet in a desensitised and detached social climate, integrity is no longer self-evident as a core value of professional conduct. Examples of this shift are overabundant.Attention to scientific integrity fits in completely with this development. Yet what is scientific integrity actually? Is it important to pay so much attention to it? Which issues does it involve? Is anything known abo...

"Facebook’s timeline, Google’s search engine, Amazon’s Alexa: much of our everyday technology contains artificial intelligence (AI). Vacuum-cleaning and lawn-mowing robots ease household chores. Chatbots conduct therapy sessions and algorithms assist doctors with medical decision-making. We can even delegate moral decisions to algorithms. The combination of robots and AI, together with big data, opens up endless possibilities. However, which decisions should be delegated to machines and...

This collection brings together key contributions on the ethics of end-of-life decisions, inspired by the publication of What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death, a new standard work by professor Govert den Hartogh. The topics covered reflect the book's comprehensive approach, with its central themes explored by ethicists, legal experts, and medical professionals. The various contributions offer a thorough examination of the major steps in Den Hartogh’s 'dual track ap...