Ethics and moral philosophy

For decades now, researchers in the social sciences and humanities have been expressing a deep dissatisfaction with the process of research-ethics review in academia.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

This work presents the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of all relevant issues and topics in contemporary global bioethics.

This novel contributed volume advances the current debate on free will by bridging the divide between analytic and historically oriented approaches to the problem.

Around the turn of the millennium, a young woman with outstanding academic achievements in science and mathematics applied to study engineering at a Eu- pean university.

Christoph Sebastian Widdau leistet mit seinem Buch einen innovativen Beitrag zur Cassirer-Forschung, zu den Leibniz-Studien und zur Begründung der Menschenrechte.

This major discussion takes a look at some of the most important ethical issues confronting us today by some of the world's leading thinkers.

Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.

Climate change is a pressing international political issue, for which a practical but principled solution is urgently required.

An utterly original exploration of the timeless human virtues and how they apply to the way we live now, from a bold and dynamic French writer.

Technology is even more than our world, our form of life, our civilization.

With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice.

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This book, first published in 2005, explores the historical contextualization of Nietzsche's thought, focusing on his controversial Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

According to many commentators, Davidson's earlier work on philosophy of action and truth-theoretic semantics is the basis for his reputation, and his later forays into broader metaphysical and epistemological issues, and eventually into what became known as the triangulation argument, are much less successful.

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat.

Isaiah Berlin made a now classic distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom.

Originally published in 1985, this book establishes that moral discourse is critical, rational and objective and challenges the ideology of value irrationalism behind contemporary liberalism.

This book provides answers to both normative and metaethical questions in a way that shows the interconnection of both types of questions, and also shows how a complete theory of reasons can be developed by moving back and forth between the two types of questions.

Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher, argued that human beings needed government in order to save their lives from being "e;solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

This book grapples with multispecies violent exploitations embedded in corridors of power within the animal-industrial complex (A-IC).

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth English language study of the animals that were left behind in the exclusion zone in the wake of the nuclear meltdown of three of the four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in March 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.

In the spring of 1872 Friedrich Nietzsche gave a series of public lectures titled 'On the Future of our Educational Institution' to an audience in Basel, Switzerland.

Before we can resolve or avoid an ethical problem, we need to understand what makes something ethical.

Literature and Moral Theory investigates how literature, in the past 30 years, has been used as a means for transforming the Anglo-American moral philosophical landscape, which until recently was dominated by certain ways of "e;doing theory"e;.

An argument that achieving millennial life spans or monumental intellects will destroy values that give meaning to human lives.

Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature.

This book shares innovative approaches to effectively engage students and faculty working in research labs, lab-based classrooms and courses to build inclusive ethical cultures.

For Augustine the world is replete with meaning; it represents not merely a collection of facts to be catalogued but a repository of truths to be discovered and discerned, a view which contrasts with the one we have inherited as a result of the thought of figures such as Descartes, Newton, and Kant.

This book is a contribution to African philosophy, by philosophers focusing specifically on the concept of human dignity in ethical theory.

This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies.

An original interpretation of the connection between idealism, history and nationalism in Fichte''s general philosophical, educational and moral project.

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 This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family.

Why you have the right to resist unjust governmentThe economist Albert O.

This book examines the language of public inquiries to reveal how blame is assigned, avoided, negotiated and discussed in this quasi-legal setting.

Care is a human ability we all need for growing and flourishing.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap.

Writing for non-specialists and students as well as for fellow philosophers, this book explores some basic issues surrounding sex and love in today's world, among them consent, objectification, non-monogamy, racial stereotyping, and the need to reconcile contemporary expectations about gender equality with our beliefs about how love works.

This volume scrutinizes the functionality of a capitalist market society, which is usually praised for the efficiency and dynamism, rather than for its morality.

This book develops a thorough account of the sphere of human moral action in sustained dialogue with JArgen Moltmann.

The Struggle for Nature outlines and examines the main aspects of current environmental philosophy including deep ecology, social and political ecology, eco-feminism and eco-anarchism.

Max Schelers Opus magnum aus dem Jahr 1913/16 kann als der gründlichste und umfassendste Entwurf einer am Personenbegriff orientierten und auf die Objektivität von Werten setzenden Ethik angesehen werden.

On Memory, Marriage, Tears, and Meditation offers readers the tools for reading Augustine's journey to human emotions through his writings on feeling, marriage, conversion, and meditation.

This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer.

This book provides a careful and comprehensive, step-by-step method for providing clinical ethics consultation.