Examines the excuses professionals make when accused of acting unethically, and asks when they are valid and when not. This study of excuses aims to provide a challenging way to think about the nature of ethical problems in the professions and to suggest ways of solving them

In a challenging moment within the socioeconomic history – as with the one we are experiencing nowadays – the process of reconciling opposing political tendencies is controversial within the context of framing technical measures upon which the current economic recession may be overcome....

What will happen in a crisis when Artificial Intelligence systems will decide about increasingly many issues, including life and death? Will a Citizen Score based on Big Data determine our chances of survival? How should autonomous systems make decisions that are ethically aligned with what is...

Introduction / Christopher Cowton, James Dempsey and Tom Sorell -- Is financialisation a vice? : perspectives from virtue ethics and Catholic social teaching / Alejo José G. Sison and Ignacio Ferrero -- On the morality of banking, the exploitation tradition and the new challenges of the global...