Ethicametrics

Dear Colleagues,

“Ethicametrics” is an interdisciplinary scientific SI focusing on the metrics of ethics (MOE) and the ethics of metrics (EOM). In particular, it is a scientific SI because any EOM or MOE should be based on behavioural mathematical modelling that can be statistically validated and tested (i.e., no validation is possible if the purpose of the model is not specified in advance in terms of the problem addressed, orientation adopted, or context analysed) with additional sensitivity analyses (i.e., it favours immediate interpretations). Next, it is an interdisciplinary SI because its manuscripts should refer to EOM or MOE models in more traditional fields (e.g., environmental science, computer science, research policy, public policy) or less traditional fields (e.g., business, health) that make use of essential mutual improvements (i.e., models that favour cross-disciplinary enrichment). Conversely, in order to be considered for publication in “Ethicametrics”, manuscripts should quantitatively study any ethics or metrics (e.g., religious or secular ethics) in any alternative contexts (e.g., Eastern or Western cultures) and at any analytical level (e.g., individuals or countries). Note that models should be made ethically explicit (i.e., their ethical assumptions must be clearly stated, mutually consistent, and tightly consistent with the applied metrics) by evaluating ethics in terms of actions’ consequences. Next, measures should be scientifically grounded (i.e., metric assumptions must be clearly stated) by evaluating their metrics in terms of ethical criteria coming from the relevant theological or philosophical literature.

Dr. Fabio Zagonari
Guest Editor

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• metrics of ethics (MOE)
• ethics of metrics (EOM)
• behavioural model
• mathematics
• multi-level analysis
• statistics
• interdisciplinary science