Ethics and moral philosophy

Medical Ethics and Moral Psychology: An Integrative Approach is a pioneering book which provides a comprehensive exploration of the ethical challenges in contemporary healthcare.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock.

The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices.

The Algerian War Retold: Of Camus's Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation focuses on specific aspects of Albert Camus's ethical thought through a study of his writings in conjunction with late 20th- and early 21st-century works written by Franco-Maghrebi authors on the topic of the Algerian War (1954-1962).

How do we know right from wrong?

Building Abolition: Decarceration and Social Justice explores the intersections of the carceral in projects of oppression, while at the same time providing intellectual, pragmatic, and undetermined paths toward abolition.

Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights takes on a set of questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals: What conceptions of victims are presumed in contemporary human rights discourse?

Addressing the proper relation of moral and religious belief to politics and law, especially constitutional law, Perry here discusses whether a common moral foundation exists that is capable of providing, in a diverse social system like ours, consistent guidelines for handling divisive political, policy, religious and constitutional disputes.

9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many people baffled and concerned.

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty.

Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses.

Surprising, humourous and thought-provoking, Much Like Us invites us on a journey to explore the inner lives of animals.

Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor develops an inclusive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor Offers an enlightening and accessible foray into the serious business of humor Reveals how standard theories of humor fail to explain its true nature and actually support traditional prejudices against humor as being antisocial, irrational, and foolish Argues that humor s benefits overlap significantly with those of philosophy Includes a foreword by Robert Mankoff, Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker

In his Essais, Montaigne stresses that his theoretical interest in philosophy goes hand in hand with its practicality.

Genetics and the Quality of Life covers the papers and report of a consultation on Genetics and the Quality of Life, held in Zurich on June 25-29, 1973, organized by the sub-unit on Church and Society of the World Council of Churches in cooperation with the Christian Medical Commission.

The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy.

First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance.

The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology, knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology.

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet.

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years.

Science and the End of Ethics examines some of the most important positive and negative implications that science has for ethics.

This book is the first in a series of planned volumes focused on preserving the character of the development of bioethics in particular cultural contexts.

In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children.

Advances normative notion of transnational cosmopolitanism based on Du Bois''s writings and practice, and discusses limitations of Kantian cosmopolitanism.

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time.

This book provides a reasoned, comprehensive understanding of what religion is as well as a clear and critical assessment of whether, in the light of modern developments in philosophy, contemporary thinking people can responsibly maintain religious belief in God.

This book discusses the problem of freedom and the limits of liberalism considering the challenges of governing climate change and artificial intelligence (AI).

The book questions the concept of "e;the enemy,"e; beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept.

In Thinking of Others, Ted Cohen argues that the ability to imagine oneself as another person is an indispensable human capacity--as essential to moral awareness as it is to literary appreciation--and that this talent for identification is the same as the talent for metaphor.

Who has access, and who is denied access, to food, and why?

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive volume on A.

The Barbara Weinstock Lectures, 9This title was originally published in 1920.

Philosophising, as Spinoza conceives it, is the project of learning to live joyfully.

A comprehensive and accessible introduction, as well as an original contribution, to the main philosophical issues raised by climate science.

Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton.

This book makes a substantial and timely contribution to discussions on energy security in Oman, providing a systematic analysis of energy security in Oman from 1920 to 2020.

What is human well-being?

What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them?

Ethical intelligence may not get as much attention as other forms of "e;smarts,"e; but as Bruce Weinstein shows, it is the most practical, valuable, and even courageous form, determining success on the job, ful?

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

This book addresses a dilemma at the heart of counter-terrorist policy: is it ever justifiable to torture terrorists in order to save the lives of others, the so-called 'ticking bomb' scenario?

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city?

This book sets out to deepen our moral understanding by thinking about forgiveness: what does it mean for our understanding of morality that there is such a thing as forgiveness?

Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain.

A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens What are our obligations to others as people in a free society?

Environmental crime is one of the most profitable and fastest growing areas of international criminal activity.

This engaging book examines what the Hippocratic Oath meant to Greek physicians 2400 years ago and reflects on its relevance to medical ethics today.