Ethics and moral philosophy

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "e;The Politics of Recognition,"e; this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism.

Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the highly topical and often controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research.

Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.

This book develops a Kierkegaard-inspired account of proper self-love which accommodates trust, hope, and forgiveness of self and others.

While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible.

Psychoanalysis has traditionally had difficulty in accounting for the existence of evil.

Human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, but perhaps nowhere more than in the United States.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle 'does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain'.

In this much-needed account of what has gone wrong in our thinking about the environment, Val Plumwood digs at the roots of environmental degradation.

This book presents argumentation for an evolutionary continuity between human persons and cyborg persons, based on the thought of Joseph Margolis.

This volume presents world-leading ideas and research that explores some of the most prominent topics relevant to detecting terrorism.

Moral life gathers its shape, force and meaning in relation to an underlying sense of reality, imaginatively conceived.

The ethics and governance of health information is a major contemporary problem.

The emotions pose many philosophical questions.

Everyone worries about being judged.

Ethical Problems in Dialysis and Transplantation presents an overview of issues with which nephrologists and decision makers are confronted in their daily practice.

This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence -- warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone.

In this book, Kris Hiuser argues that if we are called to represent God to creation, and creation to God, then this has considerable bearing on understanding what it means to be human, as well as informing human action towards non-human creatures.

This book aims to answer the question: 'why, and by what right do some people punish others?

In Valuing Health Daniel M.

The banner of deliberative democracy is attracting increasing numbers of supporters, in both the world's older and newer democracies.

This book is a contribution to the nascent discourse on global health and biomedical research ethics involving Muslim populations and Islamic contexts.

This book proposes a theory of toleration wherein liberal democracies peacefully co-exist with non-democratic societies.

Liberty is perhaps the most praised of all social ideals.

Do atheists hate God?

Values are inescapable.

This exciting new text engages with the issue of ethical dilemmas encountered in different organizations.

This book answers the question of how soft factors such as corporate cultures and individual and corporate values can be transparently steered.

Examines metaethical view known as ''Ethical Realism'', positing objective ethical truth as part of reality, examining support and challenges.

In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "e;deep control.

For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology.

Ethicists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the development of virtue in recent years, approaching the topic from the perspectives of virtue ethics and developmental psychology respectively.

Im Zentrum dieses Buches steht die Frage, wie ethische Entscheidungen in modernen Organisationen und Unternehmen heute sinnvoll organisiert werden können.

Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter.

How do people form beliefs, and how should they do so?

Biological diversity - or 'biodiversity' - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem.

First published in 2004.

Among the vast literature on contemporary reproductive technologies, Prosthetic Bodies stands out in its effective combination of insights, methods, and theories from the history of medicine, constructivist science and technology studies, and feminist theory.

Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality.

Covering moral intuition, self-evidence, non-inferentiality, moral emotion and seeming states, Hossein Dabbagh defends the epistemology of moral intuitionism.

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics of immigration with contributions from scholars who have shaped the terms of debate and who are moving the discussion forward in exciting directions.

Could low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise -- a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body?

Do I buy eggs laid by free-range chooks or the cheaper ones from caged birds?

Diese Studie zeichnet die Entwicklung von Moralpolitiken in Deutschland seit den 1960er Jahren bis heute nach und analysiert moralpolitische Regulierungsmuster.

Democracy establishes relationships of political equality, ones in which citizens equally share authority over what they do together and respect one another as equals.

Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints.

Justice in the City argues, based on the rabbinic textual tradition, especially the Babylonian Talmud, and utilizing French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas' framework of interpersonal ethics, that a just city should be a community of obligation.

MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.