Ethics category: 8196 books
by Barbara Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What would tempt you to whistleblow? Do Codes of Conduct make organisations ethical? How do people react to taking the blame for others? This book answers such questions, drawing on the views of employees in eight large organisations. One finding is the `whited sepulchre phenomenon': an organisation...
A Quest for Global Peace
Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
In his autobiography, Bertrand Russell wrote of Joseph Rotblat that 'He can have few rivals in the courage and integrity and complete self-abnegation with which he has given up his own career (in which, however, he still remains eminent) to devote himself to combating the nuclear peril as well as...
by Thelathia Nikki Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives, and creative explorations of black queer people seriously, Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer ethical methods that include confrontation,...
Emmanuel Levinas
Ethics, Justice, and the Human Beyond Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century
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...
by John Ormsby Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
An Elementary Textbook for Schools.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. DUTY 7 II. OBEDIENCE 15 III. TRUTHFULNESS 19 IV. COURAGE 24...
by Claire Colebrook
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
'The best introduction to Deleuze, and to the collective writings of Deleuze and Guattari, available yet! Claire Colebrook has produced a truly accessible pathway into the labyrinthine enchantments offered for contemporary thought by Deleuzianism, making concepts clear, showing their political and...
The Animal Inside
Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Much has been written about animals in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new turn, offering an examination of the 'animal question' from a more fundamental, philosophical-anthropological perspective. The contributors in this important volume focus on how the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him ‘as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation’. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in Williams, ethics and moral philosophy and...
Human Value, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
The Precautionary Ecosystem Health Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
It is widely acknowledged that we have a duty to protect the environment. Yet, current environmental policy discussions demonstrate that fulfilling this in practice is a difficult, complex, and costly task.
There are many ethical questions arising from such discussions. Should we care about...
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers
Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2001
Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers uses insights from the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to rethink bioethics. Although Wittgenstein produced little formal writing on ethics, this volume shows that, in fact, ethical issues permeate the entirety of his work. The scholars whom Carl Elliott has assembled...
Brain, Body, and Mind
Neuroethics with a Human Face
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience. Drawing upon recent work in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, it develops a phenomenologically inspired theory of neuroscience...
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...