Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
by David Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Ethics, grade: 2.1, Churchill College, Cambridge (-), language: English, abstract: For financial incentives to be considered as the best form of solution to the crisis in organ and tissue donation, they have to work effectively and work better than alternative...
Chiasmatic Encounters
Art, Ethics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The concept of chiasm has played major role in continental philosophy, where it has referred to various phenomenological and hermeneutic structures of reversibility, intertwining, and encounter. In Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, fourteen international contributors representing various...
Bioethics
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar – such as euthanasia, advance decisions to refuse treatment,...
Taking Biology Seriously
What Biology Can and Cannot Tell Us About Moral and Public Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2005
Discussions of human biology and its consequences for ethics and public policy are often misguided. Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. Taking Biology Seriously calls attention to...
About Bioethics
Philosophical and Theological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Policy in Bioethics develops when people can reach agreement. We make progress when we listen to each other. About Bioethics, as the first of a series, explains the different secular and theological approaches to Bioethics, seeking to identify strengths as well as weaknesses because it is the strengths...
Beyond Price
Essays on Birth and Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. In light of the recent revival of interest in emotions in philosophy and the current social and political interest in anger, this collection provides an inclusive view...
The Codification of Medical Morality
Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Formalization of Western Medical Morality in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Volume One: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The editors have incurred many debts in preparing this book, and both etiquette and ethics would be contravened if they were not discharged here. Above all, we wish to thank the contributors for so cheerfully complying with our suggestions for preparing their papers for publication and efficiently...
The Nietzschean Self
Moral Psychology, Agency, and the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Nietzsche's works are replete with discussions of moral psychology, but to date there has been no systematic analysis of his account. How does Nietzsche understand human motivation, deliberation, agency, and selfhood? How does his account of the unconscious inform these topics? What is Nietzsche's...
Killing in self-defence
The question of whether it is morally permissible to kill in self-defence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Ethics, University of Manchester (Political Theory), language: English, abstract: This paper will investigate what implications this new position poses to Quong's rejection of Otsukas stance on the moral impermissibility of killing the...
by Hilary Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in 1978, this reissue presents a seminal philosophical work by professor Putnam, in which he puts forward a conception of knowledge which makes ethics, practical knowledge and non-mathematic parts of the social sciences just as much parts of 'knowledge' as the sciences themselves....
Modernity's Wager
Authority, the Self, and Transcendence
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit...
by Ronald Dworkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is...
Ontologized Ethics
New Essays in African Meta-Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Ontologized Ethics: New Essays in African Meta-Ethics examines an often neglected meta-ethical issue in African philosophical discourse: the extent to which one’s orientation of being, or idea of what-is – as an individual or as a group of persons – does, or should, determine one’s concept...