Ethics and moral philosophy

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 constitutes the proceedings of the XV Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2020), held in Quito, Ecuador, on 26-30 October 2020, proudly organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in collaboration with GDEON.

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 volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai, a leading researcher and scholar in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics and economic theory.

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.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of different dimensions of contemporary food charity.

This book addresses the paucity of robust reflections on ethics as a distinct field of experience in recent Black Studies scholarship.

This volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics.

This book addresses the endangerment of children's bodies in affluent societies.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This book argues that there is no morality and that people are not morally responsible for what they do.

This book challenges readers to rethink rural health ethics.

This is the first volume about the Italian philosophy of technology written in English and including novel and translated contributions.

The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics is a comprehensive collection of recent research on the ethics of sexual behavior, representing a wide range of perspectives.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan's Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts.

This book addresses new and evolving thorny issues in clinical ethics consultation.

This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, human animal studies, postcolonial critique, philosophy and environmental humanities.

This book brings together an international collection of experts in reproductive ethics, law, disability studies, and medicine to explore the challenging future of reproduction and children.

This book covers practical and philosophical aspects of Engineering, paying special attention to the social impacts of emerging technologies.

This handbook is one of the first comprehensive research and teaching tools for the developing area of global media ethics.

This book engages with some of the most pressing ethical issues that arise from the use of animals in various business practices, providing interdisciplinary approaches to improving the nonhuman and human lives in animal-related industries.

This book assembles essays by thinkers who were at the center of the German post World War II development of ethical thought in medicine.

This book offers a meditation on global justice and international political and legal theory.

This book offers fresh perspectives on issues of food justice.

How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere?

Exploring the earliest literary evidence for human-animal relations, this volume presents and analyzes biblical and Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) sources from the third millennium BCE through to the consolidation of the biblical literature in the first millennium BCE.

Given the current climate of political division and global conflict it is not surprising that there has been an increasing interest in how we ought to respond to perceived wrongdoing, both personal and political.