Ethics category: 8196 books
The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth
Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth addresses the unique moral questions raised by pregnancy and its intimate bodily nature. From assisted reproduction to abortion and ‘vital conflict’ resolution to more everyday concerns of the pregnant woman, this book argues for pregnancy as a...
Ethics and Time
Ethos of Temporal Orientation in Politics and Religion of the Niger Delta
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Ethics and Time attempts to locate ethical thinking within the response to the questions raised by temporal orientation. Time is the matrix and Moloch of social life and, for the purpose of this book, the starting point for ethical reflection. Nimi Wariboko boldly attempts to reconceptualize temporal...
The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida
Between Measurability and Immeasurability
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida provides a penetrating analysis of the tensions and possibilities that animate the dialogue between two of the most significant frameworks of moral philosophy in the contemporary Continental tradition. The dispute between Habermasian discourse ethics and...
Robot Ethics 2.0
From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical....
Military Ethics
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
What significance does "ethics" have for the men and women serving in the military forces of nations around the world? What core values and moral principles collectively guide the members of this "military profession?" This book explains these essential moral foundations, along with "just war theory,"...
Ethics and the Future of Spying
Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised.
Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating...
Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War
Just War Theory in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of contemporary extensions and alternatives to the just war tradition in the field of the ethics of war.
The modern history of just war has typically assumed the primacy of four particular elements: jus ad bellum, jus in bello, the state actor,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
As the utilization of intelligent machines spreads to numerous realms, the discourse of machine ethics has also developed and expanded. Concerns over machine intelligence and the role of automata in everyday life must be addressed before artificial intelligence and robotic technologies may be fully...
Business Efficiency and Ethics
Values and Strategic Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Business Efficiency and Ethics presents both the theory of business efficiency and ethics, and a wealth of case studies based on practical experience. This unique perspective offers a framework for identifying this behaviour and reestablishing appropriate business behavior standards.
Socializing Care
Feminist Ethics and Public Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed...
by Derek Truscott, Kenneth H. Crook
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
In this new edition of the groundbreaking Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada, content is both revised and expanded. Continuing to fill a vital need for a Canadian textbook, the authors focus on major ethical issues faced by psychologists, including obtaining consent, protecting confidentiality,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.
Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some...
by Peter Singer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives...