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Developing Deontology
New Essays in Ethical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Developing Deontology consists of six new essays in ethical theory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essay considers concepts prominent in the development of deontological approaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluable contribution to that development.
Essays are contributed...
Roboethics
A Navigating Overview
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
This volume explores the ethical questions that arise in the development, creation and use of robots that are capable of semiautonomous or autonomous decision making and human-like action. It examines how ethical and moral theories can and must be applied to address the complex and critical issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes--the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for...
Integrity and the Virtues of Reason
Leading a Convincing Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Many people have claimed that integrity requires sticking to one's convictions come what may. Greg Scherkoske challenges this claim, arguing that it creates problems in distinguishing integrity from fanaticism, close-mindedness or mere inertia. Rather, integrity requires sticking to one's convictions...
Environmental Ethics
An Introduction with Readings
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy, John Benson introduces the fundamentals of environmental ethics by asking whether a concern with human well-being is an adequate basis for environmental ethics. He encourages the reader to explore this question, considering techniques used to value the...
by Daniel C. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
One of the most important developments in modern moral philosophy is the resurgence of interest in the virtues. In this new book, Daniel Russell explores two important hopes for such an approach to moral thought: that starting from the virtues should cast light on what makes an action right, and that...
Privacy, Security and Accountability
Ethics, Law and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
What is the appropriate balance between privacy, security, and accountability? What do we owe each other in terms of information sharing and access? Why is privacy valuable and is it more or less important than other values like security or free speech? Is Edward Snowden a hero or villain?
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by Allen Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
“An engaging, compelling and disturbing confrontation with evil …a book that will be transformative in its call for individual and collective moral responsibility." – Michael A. Grodin, M.D., Professor and Director, Project on Medicine and the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic...
Social Science Research Ethics for a Globalizing World
Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Research in the humanities and social sciences thrives on critical reflections that unfold with each research project, not only in terms of knowledge created, but in whether chosen methodologies served their purpose. Ethics forms the bulwark of any social science research methodology and it requires...
by Deni Elliott, Edward H. Spence
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
"Elliott and Spence have produced a tight, teachable, and timely primer on media ethics for users and creators of information in the digital age. Pitched at just the right depth of detail to provide a big picture contextualization of changing media practices grounded in concerns for democracy...
Values and Vaccine Refusal
Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology, and Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Parents in the US and other societies are increasingly refusing to vaccinate their children, even though popular anti-vaccine myths – e.g. ‘vaccines cause autism’ – have been debunked. This book explains the epistemic and moral failures that lead some parents to refuse to vaccinate their children....
Ultimate Defense
A Practical Plan to Prevent Man's Self-Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The utter extinction fo mankind by atomic warfare is a horrifying possibility-if not a probability-whether we face it or not. The Ultimate Defense diagnoses this most crucial problem of our generation and presents a practical plan for solving it.
The ethical, pan-humanistic presentation of...
Hypocrisy Unmasked
Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses or follows exclusively from superego weakness; and second, that it can be understood solely in terms...