Ethics and moral philosophy

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the problem of vulnerability.

In recent decades normative reasons-considerations that count in favor of one thing or another-have come to the theoretical fore in ethics and epistemology.

What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine?

This volume is a selection of papers from the 19th annual 'Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics' Conference.

Die Globalisierung stellt die Ethik vor ganz neue Herausforderungen: Einerseits sind alle Menschen in bestimmten Hinsichten gleich und zunehmend voneinander abhängig; andererseits fühlen sie sich aber verschiedenen politischen und kulturellen Gemeinschaften zugehörig.

We are in the second decade of modem environmental law.

Featuring fifteen new essays, this book is the only volume devoted to a scholarly study of Kant''s lectures on ethics.

Duty and Hypocrisy in Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Mind' combines a general discussion of Hegelian themes with the first loose commentary, explication, and testing of Hegel's discussion of morality in the Phenomenology of Mind.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

Multinational Corporations and the Impact of Public Advocacy on Corporate Strategy: Nestle and the Infant Formula Controversy presents an in-depth analysis of the infant formula controversy and the resulting international boycott of Nestle products launched by various social activist groups and church organizations.

This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care.

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.

The natural world has been "e;humanized"e;: even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact.

Originally published in 1941, A History of Medicine provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to the advancement of medicine, from Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Babylonia, all the way up to the 20th century.

Praise for Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling, Third Edition "e;This is absolutely the best text on professional ethics around.

In China, political philosophy is still a comparatively new academic discipline.

This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames.

Susannah Ticciati draws on Augustine to address the question of truth in the public sphere.

The eleven short, linked essays in Morality by Design represent a culmination of two decades of research and writing on the topic of moral realism.

The Christian tradition offers a robust and compelling vision of what it is for human life to be lived well.

The book has two aims.

This book develops and defends a novel social epistemological account of indoctrination.

Within the field of political philosophy, the role of states, governments, and institutions has dominated research.

Be it fair trade coffee or foreign oil, our choices as consumers affect the well-being of humans around the globe, not to mention the natural world and of course ourselves.

Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations.

Autonomous cars, drones, and electronic surveillance systems are examples of technologies that raise serious ethical issues.

Bertrand Russell's professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge.

What do animals-other than human animals-have to do with religion?

This title was first published in 2003.

This book considers how social justice and authentic freedom of speech could be better tackled through hypertextual writing.

With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished.

A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c.

What is illness?

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

Critical Reasoning in Ethics is an accessible introduction that will enable students, through practical exercises, to develop their own skills in reasoning about ethical issues such as:* analysing and evaluating arguments used in discussions of ethical issues* analysing and evaluating ethical concepts, such as utilitarianism* making decisions on ethical issues* learning how to approach ethical issues in a fair minded wayEthical issues discussed include the arguments about abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, animal rights, the environment and war.

This book by Peter Bendek presents a strong case against the current practice of business operations improvement, based on numerous studies from the business world as well as insights from the most prestigious authors of the last fifty years.

This major new work updates and significantly expands The Hastings Center's 1987 Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and Care of the Dying.

This title was first published in 2003.

Despite ongoing technical and professional advances, urban and regional planning is often far less effective than we might hope.

Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception.

Like its predecessor, New Dimensions in Bioethics, this volume developed out of a series of lectures at Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies.

This fascinating and timely volume explores current thinking on vital topics in moral psychology, spanning the diverse disciplines that contribute to the field.