Ethics and moral philosophy

Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements.

Cynicism often seems a smarter choice than idealism.

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions.

Recent developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges.

Egalitarians have traditionally been suspicious of equality of opportunity.

This long awaited collection comprises some of the most influential of Michael Smith''s essays.

Structured to introduce the reader into all aspects of the philosophy of Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), this book aims to stimulate further interest into his thought.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

Dealing with moral, political and sexual tensions, this volume provides a forum for male/female dialogue concerning the history, dissemination and consequences of pornographic representaion in film and literature, aiming to challenge established views and inspire further exploration and debate.

In this book, German philosopher Julian Nida-Rumelin presents a theory of practical reason that is objectivist, or rather realist, as an alternative to the widespread subjectivism in the theory of rationality.

This revised edition helps readers understand and develop their own opinions on the fundamental issues, enduring controversies, and critical developments associated with animal rights.

This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.

Morality and religion: intimately wed, violently opposed, or something else?

Most of the essays collected in this book were presented at the Charles S.

Experts believe that self-driving cars will be much safer than conventional cars.

Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality.

Public policy debates often turn on how to get things done once we know our policy objectives.

The things we do today may make life worse for future generations.

Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality.

The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes.

The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics.

The Bush Administration, sex and the moral agenda considers White House policy towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-sex marriage.

So geht's nicht weiter.

Addressing the influential analysis of law and literature, this book offers a new perspective on their relationship.

This book examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings.

Demonstrating that animal cruelty behaviours are another form of antisocial behaviour, alongside human aggression and violence, and almost without exception are carried out by the same individuals this book offers clear recommendations for future research on animal cruelty and future action aimed at prevention.

Written by an international team of leading political and legal theory scholars whose writings have contributed to shaping the field, Migration in Political Theory presents seminal new work on the ethics of movement and membership.

A comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of ancient Greek ethical thought, investigating the figures, movements, and themes of this branch of philosophy.

This book examines the role that the traditional understanding of science plays in how we understand the capitalistic system and how it informs business and business school education.

The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques with the potential to transform and enhance human minds and bodies to an unprecedented degree.

Exploring the principles and values that should guide and limit the state's use of preventive techniques that involve coercion against the individual, this volume arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice.

This edited volume explores how work and workers have changed with resulting implications for organizational practice.

A philosophical investigation into the connections between trust and violenceThe limiting of violence through state powers is one of the central projects of the modern age.

Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas (12241274).

If I were a better human being, that person's voice wouldn't sound so shrill to me.

In The World as Idea Charles P.

A 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Jewish philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938) is perhaps the great forgotten thinker of the twentieth century, but one whose revival seems timely and urgent in the twenty-first century.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 was a major update to the UK's laws on the use and regulation of reproductive technology and assisted reproduction.

A new and accessible translation of Plato''s Symposium with a substantial introduction.

Whether in slogans, catchphrases, adages or proverbs, we encounter mottos every day, but we rarely take time to reflect on them.

This work of applied moral philosophy develops a comprehensive account of how adults as moral agents ascribe moral status to beings.

The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and undercurrrents, ecologies, environments and irreparable cracks.

This volume opens up stimulating new perspectives on a broad variety of Barcan Marcus's concerns ranging from the systematic foundation and interpretation of quantified modal logic, nature of extensionality, necessity of identity, direct reference theory for proper names, notions of essentialism, second-order modal logic, modal metaphysics, properties and classes, substitutional and objectual quantification, actualism, the Barcan formula, possibilia and possible-world semantics to epistemic and deontic modalities, non-language-centered theories of belief, accounts of rationality, consistency of a moral code, moral dilemmas, and much more.

What ethical obligations do people have to cats?

Through a unique combination of theoretical scope and material, and historical, breadth The Hermeneutics of Suspicion poses an original investigation into our understanding of alterity in Indian literature and history, and significantly contributes to an emerging discourse on East-West literary relations.

First published in 1974.