Ethics and moral philosophy

Andrew Sayer suggests how social science can better understand people''s concerns and values, especially their ethical sentiments and dispositions.

This book seeks to understand the coast as a place that has deep significance both historically and sociologically.

Winner of the 2022 Commendation for Excellence by the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR).

Constance Hoffman Berman presents an indispensable collection of the most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the Middle Ages in the last two decades.

Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use.

Moral skepticism is the denial that there is any such thing as moral knowledge.

Does theological ethics articulate moral norms with the assistance of moral philosophy?

The relationship between empathy and morality has long been debated.

This reader introduces students of philosophy and politics to the contemporary critical literature on the classical social contract theorists: Thomas Hobbes (1599-1697), John Locke (1632-1704), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).

This textbook examines the ethical, social, and policy challenges arising from our rapidly and continuously evolving computing technology-ranging from the Internet, over to the cross-platforms consisting of ubiquitous portable and wearable devices to the eagerly anticipated metaverse-and how we can responsibly access and use these spaces.

This book shows how globalization shrinks distance, thereby expanding international obligations to aid the poor and make free trade fair.

Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today's top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century.

Can we do what we want with other species?

Commonsense Consequentialism is a book about morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two.

Sind es spezielle Ereignisse oder eine längere Entwicklung, die die für ihre kritischen Ansichten bekannten Autoren, Patrik Baab, Ulrike Guérot, Gabriele Gysi, Werner Köhne, Michael Meyen, Ullrich Mies, Hermann Ploppa, Dirk Pohlmann, Werner Rügemer, zu Kämpfern für echte Demokratie werden ließen?

The purpose of this book is to initiate a new discussion on liberty focusing on the infinite realms of space.

Nicht nur Robert Spaemanns Stellungnahmen zu vielfältigen ethischen und gesellschaftlichen Fragen der Zeit haben große Beachtung gefunden, auch seine philosophischen Entwürfe – mehrfach mit dem Untertitel »Versuch« – haben eine für einen Philosophen außergewöhnlich große Leserschaft erreicht und wurden in viele Sprachen übersetzt.

Recently, psychologists and neurobiologists have conducted experiments taken to show that human beings do not have free will.

It is now generally accepted that the structure and function of the human body deeply influence the nature of human thought.

A treatment of the fundamental ethical issues underlying the application of genetic technologies to humans, first published in 2000.

Reacting against both the British Idealists and the logical positivists, Isaiah Berlin forged a new philosophy best described as post-Idealist.

Studies of Gottfried Leibniz's moral and political philosophy typically focus on metaphysical perfection, happiness, or love.

Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics, a landmark work first published in 1874.

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness brings into conversation research from multiple disciplines, offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research.

Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England.

Why trust science?

Das Buch enthält die erste Gesamtdarstellung von Adornos ungeschriebener Philosophie der Moral auf Grundlage von unpubliziertem Material aus dem Adorno-Archiv.

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars.

From the spread of kleptocracy in Venezuela at the expense of the country's economy, to President Trump's appointment of family members to high-ranking White House positions, to President Lukashenko's desperate stranglehold on power in Belarus, across the world political corruption is rampant--indeed practically too ubiquitous to keep track of.

This book argues that even if God does not exist, human life can have meaning.

This introduction to the philosophy of the environment examines current debates on how we should think about the natural world and our place within it.

Is it defensible to use the concept of a right?

Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations.

Anyone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or knows someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer recognizes that cancer raises a host of questions concerning its nature and how we treat it.

In the spring of 2017, US-based Confucian philosopher Stephen C.

Thinking about Morality addresses the processes behind how we resolve moral issues and the factors that can impact that such as differing values and cultures.

Guido Hölker stellt einen grundlegend neuen Ansatz von Ethik der Personalführung vor.

The Healing Virtues explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics - with an emphasis on the patient's role within a healing process.

Latin American and Latinx Philosophy: A Collaborative Introduction is a beginner's guide to canonical texts in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, providing the non-specialist with necessary historical and philosophical context, and demonstrating their contemporary relevance.

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness.

This introduction to ethics judiciously combines moral theory with applied ethics to give an opportunity for students to develop acute thinking About Ethical Matters.

The first suggestions and exchange of ideas for this Workshop began about two years ago when, at the invitation of Professor E Bennett, Director of Health and Safety of the Commission of the European Communities and Professor W W Holland of the Panel of Social Medicine and Epidemiology of the EEC, I asked the Panel to sponsor a project for the study of Ethical Issues in Preventive Medicine.

The clear message proposed in this book is that justice matters for morality and desert matters for justice - and that emotions matter for desert, justice and morality.

Prepared under the auspices of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), this first volume provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly emerging field of advanced nursing practice.

Irrealism in Ethics presents a collection of six original essays contributed by prominent moral philosophers that address various forms of the philosophical position of ethical irrealism.