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In Defense of Moral Luck
Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by luck. For example, two reckless drivers manage their vehicles in the same way, and one but not the...
Conscience in Moral Life
Rethinking How Our Convictions Structure Self and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The notion of conscience remains one of the most widely used moral concepts and a cornerstone of ordinary moral thinking. This book explores where this widespread confidence in conscience stems from, examining the history of conscience as a moral concept and its characteristic moral phenomenology.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.
Self and Others
A Study of Ethical Egoism
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Aim of This Essay Ethical Egoism, the doctrine that, roughly speaking, one should promote one's own good, has been a live issue since the very beginnings of moral philosophy. Historically, it is the most widely held normative theory, and, next to Utilitarianism, it is the most intensely debated...
Inclusive Ethics
Extending Beneficence and Egalitarian Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Inclusive Ethics begins from two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. A morality comprising these two general principles will be exceedingly hard...
Moral and Intellectual Virtues in Western and Chinese Philosophy
The Turn toward Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is the first book to bring together Western and Chinese perspectives on both moral and intellectual virtues. Editors Chienkuo Mi, Michael Slote, and Ernest Sosa have assembled some of the world’s leading epistemologists and ethicists—located in the U.S., Europe, and Asia—to explore in a...
Privatizing War
A Moral Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive moral theory of privatization in war.
It examines the kind of wars that private actors might wage separate from the state and the kind of wars that private actors might wage as functionaries of the state. The first type of war serves to probe the ad bellum question...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2007
A major focus of the philosophy of medicine and, in general, of the philosophy of science has been the interplay of facts and values. Nowhere is an evaluation of this interplay more important than in the ethics of diagnosis. Traditionally, diagnosis has been understood as an epistemological activity...
by Shabih H. Zaidi
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book both presents a succinct history of medical ethics and discusses a wide range of important ethical dilemmas in the provision of modern health care. A synopsis is provided of ethics through the ages and the role of ethics in the evolution of medicine. Principles and sources of medical ethics,...
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An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers, theologians, and educated Christian readers. Alexander R. Pruss focuses on foundational questions on the nature of romantic love and on controversial questions in sexual ethics...
On Patience
Reclaiming a Foundational Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Many of us are so busy that we might be tempted to think we don’t have time to be patient. However, that idea involves a serious underestimation of what patience is and why it matters. In On Patience, Matthew Pianalto revives a richer understanding of what patience is and why it is centrally important...
Business Ethics
A Virtue Ethics and Common Good Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
Can business activities and decisions be virtuous?
This is the first business ethics textbook to take a virtue ethics approach. It explains how virtue ethics compares with alternative approaches to business ethics, such as utilitarianism and deontology, and argues that virtue ethics best serves...
by Christian Munthe
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Christian Munthe undertakes an innovative, in-depth philosophical analysis of what the idea of a precautionary principle is and should be about. A novel theory of the ethics of imposing risks is developed and used as a foundation for defending the idea of precaution in environmental and technological...
The Ethics of Cosmology
Natural Right and the Rediscovery of Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Within the last one hundred years, the scientific conception of the universe has undergone radical change. As a result a new field has evolved, called "cosmology," that examines the philosophical and scientific nature of the universe. Cosmology conceives of a material universe in which the...