Ethics and moral philosophy

This book serves as a guide to understanding the dynamics of AI in human contexts with a specific focus on the generation, sharing, and consumption of misinformation online.

In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title Leven is Een Kunst, Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue ethics, one that centres on how to 'live well' in our contemporary world.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.

Twenty years ago, people thought only cranks or sentimentalists could be seriously concerned about the treatment of non-human animals.

This book aims to identify, analyze, and systematize the available research on counterfeiting and piracy published over a thirty-five year time span (1980-2015) in order to highlight the main trends in the illicit trade literature, propose suggestions for managers battling against illicit trade, and provide a starting point for future research.

Existing human beings stand in a unique relationship of asymmetrical influence over future generations.

The aim of this book is to discuss the concepts, challenges, and successes related to developing character and moral decision making in students of a variety of ages.

Combining hard data with the author's personal story of a life in the U.

Addressing the perennial question: why should we be moral?

For too long a time, the contemporary theories of justice have been focusing on humankind as the sole bearer or claimant of justice and too little importance has been given to nature or the cosmos as the bearer of justice in its own right.

This book presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments.

In the helping professions, codes of ethics and decision-making models have been the primary vehicles for determining what constitutes ethical practice.

This book collects original essays by top scholars that address questions about the nature, origins, and effects of ambivalence.

Sind Kirchen und christliche Religion tatsächlich moralisch so kompetent, wie sie immer behaupten?

Rational choice theory forms the core of the economic approach to human behaviour.

The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics illuminates Aristotle s ethics for both academics and students new to the work, with sixteen newly commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars.

This book will help researchers and engineers in the design of ethical systems for robots, addressing the philosophical questions that arise and exploring modern applications such as assistive robots and self-driving cars.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an outstanding 20th-century philosopher whose influence has reverberated throughout not only philosophy but also numerous other areas of inquiry, including theology and the study of religions.

Known terrorists are often targeted for death by the governments of Israel and the United States.

This volume treats the topic of rationality developing a perspective that integrates elements of philosophy of language, phenomenology, pragmatism, and philosophy of life.

James Mylne (1757-1839) taught moral philosophy and political economy in Glasgow from 1797 to the mid-1830s.

How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous.

Originally published in 1998, Easels of Utopia presents a discussion of art's duration and contingency within the avant garde's aesthetic parameters, which throughout this century have constructed, influenced, and informed our definitions of modernity.

Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself.

This is the fourth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

This book shows how an emphasis on design can help us usefully apply ethics to a world built on institutions and technology.

Drawing on original data, this book is the first account of popular understandings of political ethics in contemporary British politics.

Driven by the dissatisfaction and turmoil in religion at the time this book was originally published in 1923, the author sets out a belief that all people have an inborn religion and investigates what the future of this religion might be as it changes from age to age.

Doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm.

Trends prevailing in the media suggest a seemingly disintegrating concept of media ethics.

The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum.

A book to let you know you're not alone: the wisdom of the ages can guide us through the struggles of the present.

Despite the wide-ranging differences in people's moral perspectives, there is near universal agreement that the world is generally better off when people allow morality to dictate their actions.

Moral Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume essays from leading scholars in law, leadership, psychology, political science, and ethics to provide practical, theoretical policy guidance.

This collection of essays centers on literary representations of meat-eating, bringing aesthetic questions into dialogue with more established research on the ethics and politics of meat.

Libertarianism attempts to establish a set of property rights as a complete political morality, its argument proceeding from liberty tout court, as the unique foundational aspect of well being that grounds rights.

This volume provides a clear and accessible overview of central concepts, positions, and arguments in virtue ethics today.

William James's moral philosophy is neither a remaking of utilitarianism nor it is a theory of values as it is assumed by the majority of his interpreters.

May you sell your spare kidney?

This book offers an ability-based view of mental disorders.

As a client or a developer, what do you need to consider when developing an age-appropriate website or mobile application?

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

This book offers ethical and political approaches to issues that nonhuman animals face.

Welcome to the Drone Age.

Freedom after Kant situates Kant's concept of freedom in relation to leading philosophers of the period to trace a detailed history of philosophical thinking on freedom from the 18th to the 20th century.

The twenty-first century so far has seen the global rise of authoritarian populism, systematic racism, and dogmatic metaphysics.

This handbook explores, contextualises and critiques the relationship between anthropocentrism - the idea that human beings are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos - and international law.

What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another?

From world-leading scientist and New York Times bestselling author of The Language of God, a deeply thoughtful guidebook to discerning what and who we can trust to move us from societal discord to civic harmony.