Tag: role models
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The Mimetic Workplace: Finding the Admirable amidst Rules and Rivalry
03 November 2023. An essay for the first Novitate Conference. Laws, if reasonable, are meant to foster the common good of a society. They do not favor one set of interests over another. And they do not narrow our moral vision; indeed, they broaden that vision by pointing to good, reasonable ends—free speech and assembly,…
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Ethical Role Models in the Workplace
11 Oct 2023. I have entered an agreement with Cambridge University Press to write a short monograph on ethical role models in the workplace. The book engages with social learning theory as well as moral psychology and philosophy. It will be an engaging read for academics and will be accessible to industry practitioners. God willing,…
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Modelling Virtue in Finance
As part of my postdoctoral work, I research moral exemplars — or role models — within UK financial services firms. Many will doubt that finance has good role models at all, given a long history of corporate scandals and an array of bad behaviour in the sector. But, as my colleagues and I have seen…
Edward A. David 