Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
Tolerance and Modern Liberalism
From Paradox to Aretaic Moral Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Modern liberal societies are submerged in conflict and disagreement. People disagree about almost everything—not only about matters of justice, but also about issues that are more private. They disagree on how to interpret freedom and equality; they disagree and even experience conflict with issues...
Synthetic Biology and Morality
Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A range of views on the morality of synthetic biology and its place in public policy and political discourse.
Synthetic biology, which aims to design and build organisms that serve human needs, has potential applications that range from producing biofuels to programming human behavior. The...
In the Name of God
The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers understand...
From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics Journey
The Second Annual International Vincentian Conference Promoting Business Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From the Universities to the Marketplace: The Business Ethics Journey arose from the awareness of the slow progression of academic theory into market practice. The contributions in this volume reflect a diversity of disciplines and approaches to research, study and teaching business ethics, such as...
by Laurence B. McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
Medical ethics is the disciplined study of medical morality, with two goals: critically appraising current medical morality and identifying how it should be improved. Medical morality has three components. Physicians, patients, communities, and policy makers have beliefs about what is good and bad...
Moral Psychology
A Contemporary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This is the first philosophy textbook in moral psychology, introducing students to a range of philosophical topics and debates such as: What is moral motivation? Do reasons for action always depend on desires? Is emotion or reason at the heart of moral judgment? Under what conditions are people morally...
Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World
Values, Philosophy, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science proposes an inclusive ecosystem concept that recognizes humans...
The Ethics of Technology
Methods and Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Our daily lives are affected by new technologies at an ever increasing rate. It is becoming more and more important to assess future technologies from an ethical point of view, and to do this before they are introduced on a massive scale. Such assessments require systematic use of many different kinds...
by Milton Fisk
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
When speaking of society’s role in ethics, one tends to think of society as regimenting people through its customs. Ethics and Social Survival rejects theories that treat ethics as having justification within itself and contends that ethics can have a grip on humans only if it serves their deep-seated...
by Dr Maike Albertzart
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The history of moral philosophy has been dominated by attempts to find and defend the correct moral principle or set of principles. However, over the last two decades the assumption that morality can and should be understood in terms of principles has come under attack from several quarters. The most...
Against Authenticity
Why You Shouldn't Be Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
“Be true to yourself”—it is a dictum so ubiquitous that it can seem like both philosophical wisdom and an empty truism. Should we aspire to an ideal of living authentically? What does it mean to be true to yourself? Against Authenticity: Why You Shouldn't Be Yourself is a philosophical exploration...
Ethics, Law and the Politics of Information
A Guide to the Philosophy of Luciano Floridi
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs. Such a change is often much more profound than an emphasis on information technology and society can capture, for not only does it bring about ethical and policy vacuums that call for...
Dimensions of Normativity
New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "metaethics" concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter. This volume seeks to remedy this shortcoming. Positions for or against a market in human organs are nested within moral intuitions, ontological or political theoretical premises, or understandings of special...