The book contains contributions from thirteen distinguished moral and political philosophers
on the subject of children. These are new essays and are devoted to a subject that until …

In this conceptual guided tour of contemporary public administration, Jong S. Jun challenges
the limitations of the discipline which, he argues, make it inadequate for understanding …

This paper addresses the issue of paternalism in child-rearing. Since the parent–child
relationship seems to be the linguistic source of the concept, one may be tempted to assume …

In this chapter I develop and motivate an account of epistemic autonomy as an intellectual
character virtue. In Section 9.2, I clarify the concept of an intellectual virtue and character …

Recent discussions on Foucault's work on the care of the self have centred on its apparent
excessive individualist focus. Ella Myers for example argues that the practices of the care of …

Leading accounts of personal autonomy are content-neutral: they insist that there are no a
priori constraints on the content of the desires or values that might motivate an autonomous …

1)'“Be true to yourself!” and “Don't cave in!” express the value people place on [_]….'2)'… an
important sense of [_] is being true to oneself.'3)'[_] encourages and protects people's …

It has been argued–most prominently in Harry Frankfurt's recent work–that the normative
authority of personal commitments derives not from their intrinsic worth but from the way in …

For decades, the greater part of efforts to improve regulatory frameworks for research ethics
has focused on informed consent procedures; their design, codification and regulation. Why …

The public conception of individual autonomy and virtues is essential to administrative
theory. This essay explores the possibility of relating private interest and personal autonomy …