Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
by J. Jeffrey Tillman
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
An Integrative Model of Moral Deliberation maintains that current models of moral deliberation do not effectively deal with contemporary moral complexity because they are based on an inadequate theory of moral cognition. Drawing on research in neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, social theory,...
by Gregory Mellema
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, Mellema analyzes each kind...
by Audrey L. Anton
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This book challenges a basic assumption held by many responsibility theorists: that agents must be morally responsible in the retrospective sense for anything in virtue of which they deserve praise or blame (the primacy assumption). Anton sets out to defeat this assumption by showing that accepting...
Investigative Ethics
Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other investigators in contemporary society.
Explores ethical issues relating to investigative independence, rights...
My Way
Essays on Moral Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
This is a selection of essays on moral responsibility that represent the major components of John Martin Fischer's overall approach to freedom of the will and moral responsibility. The collection exhibits the overall structure of Fischer's view and shows how the various elements fit together to form...
by Thomas Pölzler
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)? To answer this question more and more scholars have recently begun to appeal to evidence from scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, and anthropology....
by David Rönnegard
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
It is uncontroversial that corporations are legal agents that can be held legally responsible, but can corporations also be moral agents that are morally responsible? Part one of this book explicates the most prominent theories of corporate moral agency and provides a detailed debunking of why corporate...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Paul M. Minus Overview The papers gathered in this volume were first presented for reflection and discussion at a landmark event in March 1992. The International Conference on the Ethics of Business in a Global Economy, held in Columbus, Ohio, brought together over 300 participants from twenty-two...
Self, Motivation, and Virtue
Innovative Interdisciplinary Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
This volume features new findings by nine interdisciplinary teams of researchers on the topics of self, motivation, and virtue. Nine chapters bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology advance our substantive understanding of these important topics,...
Über die Moral und ihre Probleme
Eine praktische, schulgerechte Aufarbeitung anhand der 'CSI: Miami' Folge 'Machtrausch' und den ersten zwei Kapitel des Buches 'Warum überhaupt moralisch sein' von Kurt Bayertz
Language: German
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Ethik, Note: Gut, Universität Wien, Veranstaltung: Ethik als Gegenstand des Unterrichts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Damals wie heute ist das Thema 'Moral' ein wichtiges und aktuelles. Kaum eine Fernsehserie spricht das Thema nicht direkt, oder zumindest...
On Ethics and History
Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's...
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us
(about life, philosophy and everything)
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?
If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?
These sound like questions from a philosophy class, but in fact they're...
Nietzsche and Levinas
"After the Death of a Certain God"
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the...
Stoic Six Pack 5 - The Cynics (Illustrated)
An Introduction to Cynic Philosophy, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, Life of Antisthenes, The Symposium (Book IV), Life of Diogenes and Life of Crates
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
"I would rather go mad than feel pleasure."
- Antisthenes.
For Cynics the secret to happiness was living a life of virtue in harmony with Nature with only the bare essentials necessary for survival. They rejected materialism and were free of belongings. Many were homeless and proud...