Ethics and moral philosophy

This book gathers contributions from the fourth edition of the Conference on "e;Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence"e; (PT-AI), held on 27-28th of September 2021 at Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study-i.

This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II.

This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein's broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection.

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.

Despite numerous publications on the philosophy of technology, little attention has been paid to the relationship between being and value in technology, two aspects which are usually treated separately.

Questioning Ayn Rand: Subjectivity, Political Economy, and the Arts offers a sustained academic critique of Ayn Rand's works and her wider Objectivist philosophy.

This book sets out to deepen our moral understanding by thinking about forgiveness: what does it mean for our understanding of morality that there is such a thing as forgiveness?

This book offers the first ever book-length treatment of the topic of transitioning from adolescence to adulthood with autism and the attendant ethical, legal and social issues for the individual as well as caregivers and professionals.

In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human  beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantation and assisted suicide.

This book offers a considered yet entertaining reflection on the progress of modern scientific research.

This book explores how Paul Tillich's systematic theology, focusing on the concepts of being and reason can benefit nonhuman animals, while also analysing how taking proper account of nonhuman animals can prove immensely beneficial.

High levels of police corruption have been a persistent historical tendency in police services throughout the world.

This book contains original essays that look at contagious/infectious disease pandemics and the ethical public policy and administration  these have entailed.

In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role.

This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth's recognition theory as its theoretical foundation.

This book argues that ethical judgment by individual scientific policy advisors is more important than is often acknowledged.

This handbook highlights the growing tensions surrounding the current dominant ethical clearance model which is increasingly being questioned, particularly in critical research.

This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction.

This book offers a unique method for teaching ethics and social/political philosophy by combining primary texts and resource material along with three philosophical novels so that students can apply the abstract principles to real-life situations.

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects.

This book follows the development of industrial agriculture in California and its influence on both regional and national eating habits.

This book is an in-depth guide to effective scientific research.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices.

Normative reasons are reasons to do and believe things.

This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide.

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

This book examines the controversial and repercussive contention that an objective of the law should be to promote personal morality - to make people ethically better.

Unlike food publications that have been more organized along regional or disciplinary lines, this edited volume is distinctive in that it brings together anthropologists, archaeologists, area study specialists, linguists and food policy administrators to explore the following questions: What kinds of changes in food and foodways are happening?

This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails.

This book reconsiders the supposed impossibility of deriving "e;Ought"e; from "e;Is"e;.

This book reports on cutting-edge legal, ethical, social and economic issues relating to robotics and automation, human-machine interaction and artificial intelligence, in different application areas.

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention.

Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras.

This book proposes that technologies, similar to texts, novels and movies, 'tell stories' and thereby configure our lifeworld in the Digital Age.

This book explains the ethical and conceptual tensions in the use of psychopathy in different countries, including America, Canada, the UK, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand.

In this book, Munyaradzi Felix Murove explores African traditional ethical resources for African politics.

This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner.

The original essays in this book address the influential writings of Peter A.

This book presents a conceptual mapping of supererogation in the analytic moral philosophical tradition.

This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot's later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics.

Drawing on our growing knowledge of animal cognition, this book provides a critical analysis of the use of animals in the legal regime and the practice of toxicity testing.

This interdisciplinary volume brings together specialists from different backgrounds to deliver expert views on the relationship between morality and emotion, putting a special emphasis on issues related to emotional shocks.

This book addresses the pressing issues involved with the ethical conduct of research in one developing world region - the Arab Region.

This book examines the challenges faced by seven multinational companies - Intel, Lenovo, Samsung Electronics, ZTE, BMW Hyundai Motor Company, Mahindra and Mahindra - in their endeavour to contribute to the economic, environmental and social development of Asia.

This book offers a unique description of how phenomenology can help professionals from medical, environmental and social fields to explore notions such as interaffectivity, empathy, epoche, reduction, and intersubjective encounter.

This book provides an applied model of corruption to identify, analyse, and assess the ethics of major types of corruption in the media involving practices such as cash-for-comment, media release journalism, including video news releases (VNRs), fake news, deep fakes, and staged news.

This book reviews Iris Murdoch's thought as a whole.

This book proposes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach recording and interpreting the human experience of illness, disability, care, and medical intervention.

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