All Outputs (6)

Fatal Choices and Flawed Decisions at the End of Life: Lessons from Israel (2011)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Fatal Choices and Flawed Decisions at the End of Life: Lessons from Israel. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 54(4), 578-594. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2011.0037

This article presents a recent disconcerting event that took place at a rehabilitative nursing home in Tel Aviv in light of Israel's Dying Patient Law, which came into effect in 2005. It probes the double effect doctrine as it is relevant to the case... Read More about Fatal Choices and Flawed Decisions at the End of Life: Lessons from Israel.

The Israel-Hezbollah war and the winograd committee (2011)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R., & Haleva-Amir, S. (2011). The Israel-Hezbollah war and the winograd committee. In Violence and War in Culture and the Media: Five Disciplinary Lenses (171-187). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143308

Zionism - A just revolution (2011)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Zionism - A just revolution. Ethical perspectives / Catholic University of Leuven ; European Centre for Christian Ethics, 18(4), 646-659. https://doi.org/10.2143/EP.18.4.2141850

In A Just Zionism, Chaim Gans presents a philosophical analysis of the justice of contemporary Zionism as realized by the State of Israel. He argues forcefully that ethnocultural nationalism can be just, and boldly advocates a two-state solution, a P... Read More about Zionism - A just revolution.

Fighting hate and bigotry on the Internet (2011)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Fighting hate and bigotry on the Internet. Policy and Internet, 3(3), 89-114. https://doi.org/10.2202/1944-2866.1059

Hate speech is a specific type of online content that is designed to threaten certain groups publicly and act as propaganda for offline organizations. Hate groups use websites for sharing ideology, propaganda, link to similar sites, recruit new conve... Read More about Fighting hate and bigotry on the Internet.

Responsibility of Net Users (2011)
Book Chapter
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Responsibility of Net Users. The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics (415-433). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390629.ch22

Internet history (2011)
Journal Article
Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Internet history. International journal of technoethics, 2(2), 45-64. https://doi.org/10.4018/jte.2011040104

This paper outlines and analyzes milestones in the history of the Internet. As technology advances, it presents new societal and ethical challenges. The early Internet was devised and implemented in American research units, universities, and telecomm... Read More about Internet history.