Ethical issues and debates

Most people agree that animals count morally.

Most people agree that animals count morally.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

This book explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism.

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society?

Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society?

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder.

A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.

A bold and accessible argument for the moral and political value of literature in rightless times.

This authoritative dictionary contains clear, concise definitions of over 150 key terms from ethical theory and touches upon a variety of relevant subfields including meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.

Sex, Love, and Gender is the first volume to present a comprehensive philosophical theory that brings together all of Kant's practical philosophy - found across his works on ethics, justice, anthropology, history, and religion - and provide a critique of emotionally healthy and morally permissible sexual, loving, gendered being.

Sex, Love, and Gender is the first volume to present a comprehensive philosophical theory that brings together all of Kant's practical philosophy - found across his works on ethics, justice, anthropology, history, and religion - and provide a critique of emotionally healthy and morally permissible sexual, loving, gendered being.

The book provides a critical analysis of electronic alternatives to documents used in the international sale of goods carried by sea, including invoices, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, as well as other documentation required under documentary credits, and payment processing arrangements.

The book provides a critical analysis of electronic alternatives to documents used in the international sale of goods carried by sea, including invoices, bills of lading, certificates of insurance, as well as other documentation required under documentary credits, and payment processing arrangements.

From a technological standpoint, geography is largely irrelevant.

From a technological standpoint, geography is largely irrelevant.

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

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

This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance.

This study of prostitution addresses issues of female agency and experience, as well as contemporary fears about sexual coercion and the forced movement of girls/women, and police surveillance.

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s.

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s.

Who are the vulnerable, and what makes them so?

Biotechnologies already on the horizon will enable us to be smarter, have better memories, be stronger and quicker, have more stamina, live longer, be more resistant to diseases, and enjoy richer emotional lives.

Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to the liberal consensus about personal relationships.

Providing a scholarly analysis of how to govern and make the right kinds of laws for cyberspace, in this work, Professor Reed investigates the vast majority of cyberspace users who wish to act lawfully and asks whether the current state of law in cyberspace makes it possible for them to do so.

Providing a scholarly analysis of how to govern and make the right kinds of laws for cyberspace, in this work, Professor Reed investigates the vast majority of cyberspace users who wish to act lawfully and asks whether the current state of law in cyberspace makes it possible for them to do so.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

Is there any moral obligation to improve oneself, to foster and develop various capacities in oneself?

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception.

A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing.

This is a fully revised and updated new edition of the classic work first published in 1985.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Thomas Carson offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date investigation of moral and conceptual questions about lying and deception.

Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts.

A commitment to free speech is a fundamental precept of all liberal democracies.

Medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global.

Indigenous peoples and governments, industrialists and ecologists all use - or have at some stage to confront - the language of land rights.

This book addresses a dilemma at the heart of counter-terrorist policy: is it ever justifiable to torture terrorists in order to save the lives of others, the so-called 'ticking bomb' scenario?

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion draws on the expertise of an international team of scholars providing both an entry point into the sociological study and understanding of religion and an in-depth survey into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world.

Amsterdam was, after London and Paris, the third largest city in early modern Europe, and was renowned throughout Europe for its widespread and visible prostitution.

Easeful Death sets out in straightforward terms the main arguments both for and against the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so.

How far can religion play a part in the public sphere, or should it be only a private matter?

The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts.