Ethics and moral philosophy

El tema del "paternalismo", al que se dedican las siguientes contribuciones, tiene una larga tradición en la historia de las ideas, pero reviste especial importancia en la actualidad.

This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate.

This book examines corporal punishment in United States public schools.

Die Corona-Krise zwingt uns zu gewaltigen Veränderungen unserer privaten Lebensführung und erfordert höchst umstrittene politische Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Gesundheit und zur Verteilung knapper Ressourcen.

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

In this book, the author argues that no current philosophical theory of evidence in clinical medical science is adequate.

The book offers the first comprehensive account of the debate on true courage as it was raging in ancient Greece, from the times when the immensely influential Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, were composed, to the period of the equally influential author, Aristotle.

This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations.

This workbook is a companion to Clinical Ethics Consultation: A Practical Guide to Changing Culture, Building Capacity and Solving Problems Case by Case.

In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity's moral imagination.

This book offers a scientific whistleblower's perspective on current implementation of federal research misconduct regulations.

The book proposes a systematic approach to big data collection, documentation and development of analytic procedures that foster collaboration on a large scale.

This book represents an applied, up-to-date work on RRI developments and their potential positive impact on societies.

This book features papers from CEPE-IACAP 2015, a joint international conference focused on the philosophy of computing.

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies.

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This is the first book to outline a basic philosophy of ecology using the standard categories of academic philosophy: metaphysics, axiology, epistemology, aesthetics, ethics, and political philosophy.

This book focuses on multiculturalism, racism and the interests of nonhuman animals.

This book addresses the morality of engaging in weapons research, a topic that has been neglected but which is extremely important.

This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment,' an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant.

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own.

This book presents a collection of chapters, which address various contexts and challenges of the idea of human enhancement for the purposes of human space missions.

This book explores the value impact that theist and other worldviews have on our world and its inhabitants.

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy.

This book sets out a new and distinctive means of conceptualising research in the field of Education: 'Freedom Research'.

This edited book provides an in-depth examination of the implications of neuroscience for the criminal justice system.

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism.

This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism).

This book explores topical issues in military ethics by according peace a central role within an interdisciplinary framework.

This book summarizes the author's extensive research on Confucian morality issues and focuses on elaborating the extremely important and unique role of moral thought in Confucian ideology.

This book articulates an African conception of dignity in light of the salient axiological category of personhood in African cultures.

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

This book provides occupational health (OH) professionals with a theoretical basis for addressing the ethical issues that they confront in their practice.

This collection explores what the social and philosophical aspects of veganism offer to critical theory.

This book is a critical examination of the philosophical and moral issues in relation to human enhancement and the various related medical developments that are now rapidly moving from the laboratory into the clinical realm.

This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of education.

This book disassembles the moral assessment of business practices into its constituent parts to identify and clarify the four key concepts that form the basis of important moral disagreements in business: 'personhood,' 'ownership,' 'harm,' and 'consent.

What is a right?

The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality.

This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form.

Fascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a critical examination of the multilayered relationships between engineering and business.

A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis.

This book comprises 30 chapters representing certain new trends in reconcenptualizing Confucian ideas, ideals, values and ways of thinking by scholars from China and abroad.

In this book, author Svein Olaf Thorbjornsen probes the question: What is at stake for human beings in a society dominated by competition, particularly economic competition?