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When All Else Fails
The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Why you have the right to resist unjust government
The economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their governments: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in When All Else Fails, Jason Brennan...
Informed Consent, Proxy Consent, and Catholic Bioethics
For the Good of the Subject
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
This work offers a comprehensive understanding rooted in Catholic anthropology and moral theory of the meaning and limits of informed and proxy consent to experimentation on human subjects. In particular, it seeks to articulate the rationale for proxy consent in both therapeutic and nontherapeutic...
The Organ Shortage Crisis in America
Incentives, Civic Duty, and Closing the Gap
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Nearly 120,000 people are in need of healthy organs in the United States. Every ten minutes a new name is added to the list, while on average twenty people die each day waiting for an organ to become available. Worse, our traditional reliance on cadaveric organ donation is becoming increasingly insufficient,...
Deep Control
Essays on Free Will and Value
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
In this collection of essays -- a follow up to My Way and Our Stories -- John Martin Fischer defends the contention that moral responsibility is associated with "deep control." Fischer defines deep control as the middle ground between two untenable extreme positions: "superficial control" and "total...
A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics
Biocentric Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Approaches bioethics on the basis of a conception of life and what is needed for the affirmation of its quality in the most encompassing sense. Johnson applies this conception to discussions of controversial issues in bioethics including euthanasia, abortion, cloning and genetic engineering. His emphasis...
Persons, Moral Worth, and Embryos
A Critical Analysis of Pro-Choice Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
“Bioethicists have achieved consensus on two ideas pertaining to beginning of life issues: (1) persons are those beings capable of higher-order cognition, or self-consciousness, and (2) it is impermissible to kill only persons. As a consequence, a consensus is reached regarding the permissibility...
Speech Matters
On Lying, Morality, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2014
To understand one another as individuals and to fulfill the moral duties that require such understanding, we must communicate with each other. We must also maintain protected channels that render reliable communication possible, a demand that, Seana Shiffrin argues, yields a prohibition against lying...
The Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Health Care Principles through the phenomenology of relationships with patients
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This book serves to unite biomedical principles, which have been criticized as a model for solving moral dilemmas by inserting them and understanding them through the perspective of the phenomenon of health care relationship. Consequently, it attributes a possible unification of virtue-based and principle-based approaches.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age. China is reawakening to the power and importance of its own culture. This volume provides a unique view of the emerging Confucian vision for China and the world in the 21st century. Unlike the Neo-Confucians sojourning in North America who recast...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Philosophers have long agreed that moral responsibility might not only have a freedom condition, but also an epistemic condition. Moral responsibility and knowledge interact, but the question is exactly how. Ignorance might constitute an excuse, but the question is exactly when. Surprisingly enough,...
Extraterrestrial Altruism
Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Extraterrestrial Altruism examines a basic assumption of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): that extraterrestrials will be transmitting messages to us for our benefit. This question of whether extraterrestrials will be altruistic has become increasingly important in recent years...
by Ibo van de Poel, Lambèr Royakkers, Sjoerd D. Zwart
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what, a phenomenon known as the ‘problem of many hands.’ This term is increasingly used to describe problems with attributing individual responsibility in collective...
Adam Smith
Systematic Philosopher and Public Thinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Eric Schliesser's Adam Smith is the product of two decades' reflection by the author on the great Scottish Enlightenment. Unique among treatments of Adam Smith, Schliesser's book treats him as a systematic philosopher. Smith was a giant of the Scottish Enlightenment with polymath interests; Schliesser...
The Ethics of Vulnerability
A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition, vulnerability has significant ethical import: how one responds...