Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
The Self Beyond Itself
An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
“Intertwines history, philosophy, and science . . . A powerful challenge to conventional notions of individual responsibility” (Publishers Weekly).
Few concepts are more unshakable in our culture than free will, the idea that individuals are fundamentally in control of the decisions they...
by Allen Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law--not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of moral...
by William J. Talbott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In the last half of the twentieth century, legalized segregation ended in the southern United States, apartheid ended in South Africa, women in many parts of the world came to be recognized as having equal rights with men, persons with disabilities came to be recognized as having rights to develop...
by Y. Iczkovits
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequently a vision of ethics, showing how the two are integrated in his philosophical method, and allowing us to reframe traditional problems in moral philosophy considered as external to questions of meaning.
The Origins of Fairness
How Evolution Explains Our Moral Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In order to describe the logic of morality, "contractualist" philosophers have studied how individuals behave when they choose to follow their moral intuitions. These individuals, contractualists note, often act as if they have bargained and thus reached an agreement with others about how to distribute...
An Ethics of Biodiversity
Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Life on earth is wildly diverse, but the future of that diversity is now in question. Through environmentally destructive farming practices, ever-expanding energy use, and the development and homogenization of land, human beings are responsible for unprecedented reductions in the variety of life forms...
Technology and the Virtues
A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every detail of our daily lives, and biomedical techniques...
Ethics in Healthcare
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Structured around eight chapters, this book introduces ethical theory and practice to healthcare students and professionals, including medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, and research.
Increasingly, students and professionals within healthcare are faced with difficult questions and...
Designer Biology
The Ethics of Intensively Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached...
Dignity, Justice, and the Nazi Data Debate
On Violating the Violated Anew
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn (re)constructs the survivors’ arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. She begins with a historical case and presents arguments that help make sense of the following claims:...
by Lisa Tessman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Suppose that in an emergency evacuation of a hospital after a flood, not all of the patients can make it out alive. You are the doctor faced with the choice between abandoning these patients to die alone and in pain, or injecting them with a lethal dose of drugs, without consent, so that they die...
Making Sense of Intersex
Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Putting the ethical tools of philosophy to work, Ellen K. Feder seeks to clarify how we should understand "the problem" of intersex. Adults often report that medical interventions they underwent as children to "correct" atypical sex anatomies caused them physical and psychological harm. Proposing...
Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity
Philosophy + Animal Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
While writing a chapter on contemporary animal rights for an ethics book, philosophy professor James Brusseau began asking how the animal studies could reflect back to reveal human truths. Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity pursues that question as it ranges from an accessible look at today's philosophy...
by Benjamin R. Barber, Lloyd J. Dumas, Robert K. Fullinwider
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2002
What are the limits of justified retaliation against aggression? What actions are morally permissible in preventing future aggression? Against whom may retaliation be aimed? These questions have long been part of the debate over the ethics of warfare. They all took on new meaning after terrorists...