A role for structured observation in ethics

Social Justice Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-21

  Frohlich, Norman ^a   Oppenheimer, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Experiments; Impartial reasoning; Justice; Methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041298749     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-997-0009-0     Document Type: Article

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