Ethics Moral Philosophy category: 4789 books
The Ethics of Time
A Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry. Its rigorous analyses of such phenomena as waiting, memory, and the body are carried out phenomenologically, as it engages in a hermeneutical reading of such classical...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Handbook of Moral Development is the definitive source of theory and research on the development of morality. Since the publication of the first edition, ground-breaking approaches to studying the development of morality have re-invigorated debates about what it means to conceptualize and measure...
Ethics in Public Health and Health Policy
Concepts, Methods, Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Ethical issues associated with public health and health policy--related, for example, to pandemic plans and vaccination policies (c.f. SARS or pandemic influenza), preventive measures like screening (e.g. for breast cancer or dementia) or health information campaigns, social inequalities or health...
Valuing Profoundly Disabled People
Fellowship, Community and Ties of Birth
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Growing numbers of human beings live with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities. Exploring the moral, social and political implications of this trend, Valuing Profoundly Disabled People addresses questions that are high on policy and practice agendas in numerous regions around...
Ethics at the End of Life
New Issues and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The 14 chapters in Ethics at the End of Life: New Issues and Arguments, all published here for the first time, focus on recent thinking in this important area, helping initiate issues and lines of argument that have not been explored previously. At the same time, a reader can use this volume to...
Engineering the Climate
The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood...
Engineering Ethics
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Engineering Ethics: Challenges and Opportunities aims to set a new agenda for the engineering profession by developing a key challenge: can the great technical innovation of engineering be matched by a corresponding innovation in the acceptance and expression of ethical responsibility? Central features...
Moral Imagination
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may illuminate the motives of human action and the...
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
"[Appiah's] work reveals the heart and sensitivity of a novelist. . . .Fascinating, erudite and beautifully written."—The New York Times Book Review
In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes...
Alexius Meinong’s Elements of Ethics
with Translation of the Fragment Ethische Bausteine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Elements of Ethics examines Meinong's value theory from an epistemological standpoint and gives a critical exposition of Meinong's first attempts at a deontic logic; special consideration is given to the Law of Omission. For that purpose his theory of the a priori is examined, which is entwined with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Compassion is widely regarded as an important moral emotion – a fitting response to various cases of suffering and misfortune. Yet contemporary theorists have rarely given it sustained attention. This volume aims to fill this gap by offering answers to a number of questions surrounding this emotion....
Mind, Values, and Metaphysics
Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan - Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book addresses five main topics of metaphysics in its first section: formal objects and truth-makers; tropes; properties and predicates; varieties of relations; and the notion of explanation in metaphysics. The second part of this volume focuses on the history of philosophy with an emphasis on...
Earth-honoring Faith:Religious Ethics in a New Key
Religious Ethics in a New Key
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Thoughtful observers agree that the planetary crisis we now face-climate change; species extinction; the destruction of entire ecosystems; the urgent need for a more just economic-political order-is pushing human civilization to a radical turning point: change or perish. But precisely how to change...
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics
The Virtuous Egoist
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand's view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand...