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Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine
Hypothetical Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book that explores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-making through hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of this volume is that each chapter sets forth a hypothetical fact pattern which includes role assignments to encourage...
Ontological Fundamentals for Ethical Management
Heidegger and the Corporate World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
The book develops a philosophical foundation to the field of management education using the work of Martin Heidegger as a guiding philosophy. It asks the questions ‘what is a corporation?’ and ‘what is corporate management?’ These two questions are foundational for management thought in general...
Rationality and the Good
Critical Essays on the Ethics and Epistemology of Robert Audi
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2007
For over thirty years, Robert Audi has produced important work in ethics, epistemology, and the theory of action. This volume features thirteen new critical essays on Audi by a distinguished group of authors: Fred Adams, William Alston, Laurence BonJour, Roger Crisp, Elizabeth Fricker, Bernard Gert,...
by Darren O'Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This detailed and timely volume examines the impact of global transformations on concepts of civil society. Divided into two sections, it evaluates changing notions of ethics and how these transformations are operationalized. The first part deals with the theoretical aspects while the second examines...
Food Security and Food Safety for the Twenty-first Century
Proceedings of APSAFE2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2015
This book is a collection of selected papers that were presented at the First International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE 2013), which was held at Chulalongkorn University from November 28 – 30, 2013. The papers are interdisciplinary, containing...
by Per Brask
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
An important 20th century work on ethics. Now available in English for the first time.Danish thinker Andreas Simonsen explores what he considers the three most fundamental problems in ethics: free will versus determinism, happiness versus duty, and humanism versus humility.“These problems...
Distillations
Theory, Ethics, Affect
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political resistance, subjectivity, agency, desire, and...
Existential Eroticism
A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of the lady through which feminists can reorient discourses on rationality and moral responsibility related to women’s oppression-perpetuating choices....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Wittgenstein’s work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s...
by David J. Yount
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book argues against the common view that there are no essential differences between Plato and the Neoplatonist philosopher, Plotinus, on the issues of mysticism, epistemology, and ethics. Beginning by examining the ways in which Plato and Plotinus claim that it is possible to have an ultimate...
Torture and Dignity
An Essay on Moral Injury
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations—torture—J.M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself....
by Colin Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Colin Marshall offers a ground-up defense of objective morality, drawing inspiration from a wide range of philosophers, including John Locke, Arthur Schopenhauer, Iris Murdoch, Nel Noddings, and David Lewis. Marshall's core claim is compassion is our capacity to perceive other creatures' pains, pleasures,...
by Russell Blackford
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The Mystery of Moral Authority argues for a sceptical and pragmatic view of morality as an all-too-human institution. Searching, intellectually rigorous, and always fair to rival views, it represents the state of the art in a tradition of moral philosophy that includes Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, and J.L. Mackie.
Purpose in the Universe
The moral and metaphysical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical...