Ethics and moral philosophy

This book argues that human rights cannot go global without going local.

This book addresses the topic of personhood-who is a "e;person"e; or "e;human,"e; and what rights or dignities does that include-as it has been addressed through the lens of science fiction.

This book investigates the role of free will and responsibility in mental well-being, psychotherapy, and personality theory.

How can we feel at home in this world without clinging to false certainties?

This book brings together philosophical approaches to explore the relation of recognition and poverty.

This book examines the phenomenon of female child soldiering from various theological perspectives.

In consequence of significant social, political, economic, and demographic changes several wildlife species are currently growing in numbers and recolonizing Europe.

This book offers innovative ideas and frameworks for sustainable strategizing to advance business by scaling-up its positive impact, which is so urgently needed at this time in the 21st century.

This book brings together a group of top scholars on ethics and moral neuroeducation to cover the specific field of moral learning.

Winner of the 2020 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams PrizeProviding a theory of moral practice for a contemporary sociological audience, Owen Abbott shows that morality is a relational practice achieved by people in their everyday lives.

This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike.

Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics.

The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics.

This vintage book contains a collection of short stories by American writer Jack London.

This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel's systematic philosophy.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book is an interdisciplinary study centred on the political and legal position of animals in liberal democracies.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

The contemporary novel is not as silent as we tend to believe, nor does it only attend to human plots and characters.

Die Prinzipien der christlichen Sozialethik haben im Laufe der abendländischen Geschichte ganz wesentlich zur ethisch-normativen Orientierung und zur sozialen Ausgestaltung marktwirtschaftlicher Ordnungssysteme beigetragen.

This book provides a careful and comprehensive, step-by-step method for providing clinical ethics consultation.

This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life.

This book attempts to open up a path towards a phenomenological theory of values (more technically, a phenomenological axiology).

This book explores the delicate interconnections between law and economics, especially as regards island entitlements under international maritime law.

This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us.

The ethics of human/animal relationships is a growing field of academic research and a topic for public discussion and regulatory interventions from law-makers, governments and private institutions.

In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality.

The text introduces engineering to first-year undergraduate students using Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL).

In this book, Cecilea Mun introduces an innovative meta-framework for conducting interdisciplinary research in the science of emotion, broadly construed, as well as a framework for a particular kind of theory of emotion.

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction.

This book presents four bridges connecting work in virtue epistemology and work in philosophy of science (broadly construed) that may serve as catalysts for the further development of naturalized virtue epistemology.

The fur trade is a multi-million-dollar industry.

The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us.

Is prostitution immoral?

This Palgrave Pivot  examines refugee camps in the EU, Australia, and their border zones.

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents.

This book provides new and original research on the purpose and functions of universities from the perspective of corporate social responsibility.

This book focuses on some English-speaking women philosophers who have been major actors since the 20th century in the field of practical philosophy, namely political and social philosophy, feminist approaches to philosophy, moral psychology, the theory of action and ethics.

The book explores the main moral, ethical and operational dilemmas of targeted killings from an Israeli perspective.

New philosophical essays on love by a diverse group of international scholars.

This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different values in media companies and media managers' decisions.

This book brings together a number of essays that are optimistic about the ways certain neuroscientific insights might advance philosophical ethics, and other essays that are more circumspect about the relevance of neuroscience to philosophical ethics.

This Undergraduate Textbook introduces key methods and examines the major areas of philosophy in which formal methods play pivotal roles.

This book examines the ethics of virtual reality (VR) technologies.

This edited collection investigates the kinds of moral reflection we can undertake within the imaginative worlds of literature.

This book addresses the problems faced by people and hospitals dedicated to providing optimal end-of-life care and asks whether ethicists can function as experts on this subject.

This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film.

Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives, this book critically examines intercultural theory and its interrelations with globalisation, education and dialogue in multicultural societies.