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Moral Psychology
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
Moral psychology studies the features of cognition, judgement, perception, and emotion that make human beings capable of moral action. Perspectives from feminist and race theory immensely enrich moral psychology. Writers who take these perspectives ask questions about mind, feeling, and action in...
by Alice Crary
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Alice Crary offers a transformative account of moral thought about human beings and animals. Instead of assuming that the world places no demands on our moral imagination, she underscores the urgency of treating the exercise of moral imagination as necessary for arriving at an adequate world-guided understanding of human beings and animals.
Reflecting Subjects
Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Jacqueline Taylor offers an original reconstruction of Hume's social theory, which examines the passions and imagination in relation to institutions such as government and the economy. Reflecting Subjects begins with a close examination of Hume's use of an experimental method to explain the origin,...
Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics
A Critique and a Re-Appropriation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Emanuel Levinas and the Limits to Ethics highlights how radically different Jewish ethics is from Christian ethics, and the profound affinities that subsist between Jewish ethics and philosophical and political liberalism.
The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas has captured the imagination of a...
The Ethical Turn
Otherness and Subjectivity in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Levinas (1969) claims that "morality is not a branch of philosophy, but first philosophy" and if he is right about this, might ethics also serve as a first psychology?This possibility is explored by the authors in this volume who seek to bring the "ethical turn" into the world...
by Michael Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
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. Boylan provides a preface to introduce instructors...
The Robust Demands of the Good
Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a range...
Recovering Nature
Essays in Natural Philosophy, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Honor of Ralph McInerny
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
The recovery of nature has been a unifying and enduring aim of the writings of Ralph McInerny, Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame, director of the Jacques Maritain Center, former director of the Medieval Institute, and author of numerous works in philosophy,...
Moral Psychology
A Multidisciplinary Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This fascinating and timely volume explores current thinking on vital topics in moral psychology, spanning the diverse disciplines that contribute to the field. Academics from cognitive science, evolutionary biology, anthropology, philosophy, and political science address ongoing and emerging questions...
Bioethics Critically Reconsidered
Having Second Thoughts
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Bioethics developed as an academic and clinical discipline during the later part of the 20th century due to a variety of factors. Crucial to this development was the increased secularization of American culture as well as the dissolution of medicine as a quasi-guild with its own professional ethics....
by Claudia Wiesemann
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Presenting real life cases from clinical practice, this book claims that children can be conceived of as moral equals without ignoring the fact that they still are children and in need of strong family relationships. Drawing upon recent advances in childhood studies and its key feature, the ‘agentic...
Eating Ethically
Religion and Science for a Better Diet
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Few activities are as essential to human flourishing as eating, and fewer still are as ethically fraught. Eating well is particularly confusing. We live amid excess, faced with conflicting recommendations, contradictory scientific studies, and complex moral, medical, and environmental consequences...
How to be Good
The Possibility of Moral Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
'How to be Good?' is the pre-eminent question for ethics, although one that philosophers and ethicists seldom address head on. Knowing how to be good, or perhaps (more modestly and more accurately) knowing how to go about trying to be good, and the ways in which it is pointless or self-defeating to...
by Ami Harbin
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action. Disorientations are human experiences of losing one's bearings, such that life is disrupted and it is not clear how to go on. In the face of life experiences like trauma, grief, illness, migration, education,...