Ethics and moral philosophy

The metaphor of the monster or predator-usually a sexual predator, drug dealer in areas frequented by children, or psychopathic murderer-is a powerful framing device in public discourse about how the criminal justice system should respond to serious violent crimes.

In this book, an international group of philosophers, economists and theologians focus on the relationship between justice, luck and responsibility in health care.

This Brief sheds light on the motivation of humanitarian intervention from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

Evolutionary biology, ecology and ethics: at first glance, three different objects of research, three different worldviews and three different scientific communities.

This book provides an analytical interpretation of Leibniz's 'Essais de Theodicee' with wide-ranging references to all his works.

This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship.

This is the first ever collected volume on John Austin, whose role in the founding of analytical jurisprudence is unquestionable.

This volume addresses the complex interplay between the conditions of an agent's personal autonomy and the constitution of her self in light of two influential background assumptions: a libertarian thesis according to which it is essential for personal autonomy to be able to choose freely how one's self is shaped, on the one hand, and a line of thought following especially the seminal work of Harry Frankfurt according to which personal autonomy necessarily rests on an already sufficiently shaped self, on the other hand.

Based on the study of neuroscientific developments and innovations, examined from different angles, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the international neuroethical debate, and offers unprecedented insights into the impact of neuroscientific research, diagnosis, and therapy.

Information and communication technologies of the 20th century have had a significant impact on our daily lives.

These chapters on 'Responsible Leadership' represent the latest thinking on a topic of increasing relevance in a connected world.

There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's.

While a sharp debate is emerging about whether conventional biometric technology offers society any significant advantages over other forms of identification, and whether it constitutes a threat to privacy, technology is rapidly progressing.

The capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen places human capabilities at the centre stage of discussions about justice, equality, development and the quality of life.

This volume focuses on the ethical and philosophical issues that arise in an aging society, and the implications of these issues for healthcare and social policy.

This book covers topics that are at the intersection of business ethics and governance as they pertain to entrepreneurship and finance.

This book provides an early exploration of the new field of disaster bioethics:examining the ethical issues raised by disasters.

Recent economic development and the financial and economic crisis require a change in our approach to business and finance.

The chapters of this book are a selection of papers presented at a joint conference on Law, Ethics and Finance was held at the York University Schulich School of Business, 16-18 September, 2010.

This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit.

In this Brief, Daniel Sokol interprets 'doing medical ethics' broadly to capture the application of ethical knowledge to a concrete situation, rather than just resolving a moral dilemma contained within a case.

In the twentieth century, in both China and the West, ritual became marginalized in the face of the growth of secularism and individualism.

This book grounds deliberative democratic theory in a more refined understanding of deliberative practice, in particular when dealing with intractable moral disagreement regarding novel technologies.

The Journal of Business Ethics was founded by Alex C.

As the first of its kind, this handbook presents state-of-the-art information and analysis concerning the state of affairs in bioethics in around 40 countries.

This book presents a unique collection of the most relevant perspectives in contemporary human rights philosophy.

In the face of the recent financial crisis there is increased focus on long-term investment strategies.

This volume provides a fascinating look at the anti-tax avoidance strategies employed by more than fifteen countries in eastern and western Europe, Canada, the Pacific Rim, Asia, Africa, and the United States.

The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them.

The interaction between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has become an important topic in the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors.

Karl Jaspers, who died in 1969, had a profound impact on 20th-century theology and philosophy.

This work offers a comprehensive understanding rooted in Catholic anthropology and moral theory of the meaning and limits of informed and proxy consent to experimentation on human subjects.

Rethinking Virtue Ethics offers a model of Aristotelian virtue ethics based on a deductive paradigm.

This volume contains outstanding studies by some of the best scholars in ancient Greek Philosophy on key topics in Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought.

This volume unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law, political science, and with philosophical reflections on the theory of Corporate Citizenship and New Governance.

20th century technologies like cars, the Internet, and the contraceptive pill have altered our actions, changed our perceptions and influenced our moral ideas, for better and worse.

"e;Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons.

This volume explores corporate governance from three perspectives: a traditional economic, a philosophical, and an integrated business ethics perspective.

This book explores the theoretical basis of our ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings - this task being envisaged as an essential supplement to a traditional ethic of respect for persons.

A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age.

Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking.

The Handbook of Business Ethics: Philosophical Foundations is a standard interdisciplinary reference handbook in the field of business ethics.

Issues in reproductive ethics, such as the capacity of parents to 'choose children', present challenges to philosophical ideas of freedom, responsibility and harm.

Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction.

At the same time that the pace of science and technology has greatly accelerated in recent decades, our legal and ethical oversight mechanisms have become bogged down and slower.

Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about.

The book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management education using the work of Martin Heidegger as a guiding philosophy.

Max Scheler and Nicolai Hartmann developed ethics upon a phenomenological basis.