So‐called nudge policies utilize insights from behavioral science to achieve policy
outcomes. Nudge policies try to improve people's decisions by changing the ways options …

Background Respect for autonomy is a key concept in contemporary bioethics and end-of-
life ethics in particular. Despite this status, an individualistic interpretation of autonomy is …

John M. Doris presents a new account of agency and responsibility, which reconciles our
understanding of ourselves as moral agents with psychological research on the …

Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral
theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few …

Recent theoretical work on vulnerability seeks to dissociate the concept from negative
connotations of victimhood, helplessness, neediness, and pathology, reconceptualizing …

Individual autonomy is an idea that is generally understood to refer to the capacity to be
one's own person, to live one's life according to reasons and motives that are taken as one's …

Women have historically been prevented from living autonomously by systematic injustice,
subordination, and oppression. The lingering effects of these practices have prompted many …

It is both an ideal and an assumption of traditional conceptions of justice for liberal
democracies that citizens are autonomous, self-governing persons. Yet standard accounts of …

Philosophical suspicion of the normative presuppositions of liberalism have often focused
on the alleged hyper-individualism of the conception of autonomy and the autonomous …

Autonomy is usually understood by feminist writers in the same way that it is understood
within moral psychology generally, namely, as self-government or self-direction: being …