Ethics and moral philosophy

Rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems hold tremendous potential to change various domains and exert considerable influence on societies and organizations alike.

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification.

The book explores the main moral, ethical and operational dilemmas of targeted killings from an Israeli perspective.

This Palgrave Pivot  examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones.

Data privacy technologies are essential for implementing information systems with privacy by design.

This book focuses on some English-speaking women philosophers who have been major actors since the 20th century in the field of practical philosophy, namely political and social philosophy, feminist approaches to philosophy, moral psychology, the theory of action and ethics.

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE.

This book surveys the distinctions that underlie the unbound potential and existential risks of life expansion and radical modifications posed by a transhuman world.

The North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices.

This book examines the ethical responsibilities of engineers and scientists in light of new advances in science with a distinct reflection on quantum mechanics.

This book offers a vision of politics that govern the womb; from antiquity ('be fertile and replenish the earth'), through the ages (hysterectomy, to extirpate women's 'hysteria'), up to the present time (abortion wars; assisted reproduction), and into the future (reprogenetics; the artificial womb).

This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective.

The fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry.

This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents.

This book, sponsored by the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA), focuses on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and shifts toward approaching the reconciliation process as an inter-, trans- and multidisciplinary field.

In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality.

This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it.

This book provides insights into dynamic and complex interrelationships between professionalism and medical practice.

This book gathers contributions from the fourth edition of the Conference on "e;Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence"e; (PT-AI), held on 27-28th of September 2021 at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

This book explores the relevance of Japanese ethics for the field of ethics of technology.

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents.

In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human  beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantation and assisted suicide.

This book raises awareness about environmental issues that result from energy production, extraction and conversion, and examines the attitudes people have about these issues.

This book explores the delicate interconnections between law and economics, especially as regards island entitlements under international maritime law.

This book examines Husserl's approach to the question concerning meaning in life and demonstrates that his philosophy includes a phenomenology of existence.

This book proposes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach recording and interpreting the human experience of illness, disability, care, and medical intervention.

The relationship between two distinct periods in Michel Foucault's work is the starting point for this book.

The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film and media.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book begins the discourse on post-trial access to drugs in developing countries.

This book provides a scientific and ethical approach to all forms of fraud and misconduct focusing on a scholarly however practice-oriented description of the problems, roots and potential solutions.

This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film.

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein's broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection.

This book contains original essays that look at contagious/infectious disease pandemics and the ethical public policy and administration  these have entailed.

This volume offers original essays exploring what 'fictive narrative philosophy' might mean in the research and teaching of philosophy.

This book reveals the entanglement of ethics, rights and justice in education.

This book engages with some of the most pressing ethical issues that arise from the use of animals in various business practices, providing interdisciplinary approaches to improving the nonhuman and human lives in animal-related industries.

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This book aspires to face the challenge of analyzing with due academic rigor, always in the paradigm of security and advanced sciences, but without forgetting the ethical questions that our world raises every day.

This book addresses the paucity of robust reflections on ethics as a distinct field of experience in recent Black Studies scholarship.

This book, sponsored by the Academic Alliance for Reconciliation Studies in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA), focuses on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and shifts toward approaching the reconciliation process as an inter-, trans- and multidisciplinary field.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of different dimensions of contemporary food charity.

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity.

This book focuses on the problem of responsibility voids: these are cases where responsibility for a morally undesirable outcome cannot be attributed to any of the involved agents.

This book brings together twelve original contributions by leading scholars on the much-debated issues of what is free will and how can we exercise it in a world governed by laws of nature.

This comprehensive collection brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the Zhuangzi.

How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere?

The book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.