This book provides a philosophical exposition of Ubuntu ethics, which is grounded in the understanding that a person is a person through other persons. The book will be an important read for researchers of African philosophy, and of the philosophy o...Loe edasi...
This book explores the seismic shift brought about by the 2022 US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, which dramatically changed the constitutional standing of abortion decisions set in place by Roe v. Wade fifty y...Loe edasi...
This book offers an inquiry into the ethics of human needs capture for design purposes by drawing upon ethical theories and narratives. It will be of interest to students and academics studying product design, industrial design, interaction design,...Loe edasi...
Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This volume features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering and evil....Loe edasi...
Multispecies Information Science offers a comprehensive overview of this subfield, shifting the focus beyond humans to explore the rich and complex realms of information and knowledge shared with animals, plants, microbes, technologies, and landscap...Loe edasi...
This book examines how legal professionals both engage with and challenge institutional frameworks trhough various perspectives, including Islamic, Catholic, Protestant, anti-theist, common law, and civil law traditions. Additionally, it offers a ti...Loe edasi...
This title explores the under-examined theoretical foundations of contemporary Chinese philosophical discourse on human rights. Through an interpretive, critical, and constructive approach, it analyzes key elements of the broader theoretical context...Loe edasi...
This book examines the ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive technologies and queer family-making practices. By focusing on LGBTQ+ people and experiences in relation to procreative ethics, the book challenges dominant approaches and views...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-scale monograph on the intuitionism of W. D. Ross and is written a distinguished moral philosopher with expertise in epistemology, moral psychology, and the theory of human action....Loe edasi...
This volume offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalence in suicidal agency, a phenomenon that, despite its significance in clinical psychology, remains under-conceptualized....Loe edasi...
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concer...Loe edasi...
This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees, and provides an account of what an ethical response would be by developing an understanding of the moral duties that states have towards refugees....Loe edasi...
This book addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP strategies, but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP measures....Loe edasi...
This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the new action turn from 4E cognitive science with the new practice turn from the social sciences to develop a new p...Loe edasi...
This much-needed introduction explains what epistemic injustice is and examines it from a philosophical standpoint. With chapter summaries, further reading, and a glossary, it is an ideal starting point for anyone coming to the topic for the first t...Loe edasi...
What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Can life be meaningful at all, and if it can, what exactly makes it so? This new volume in the Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Issues series addresses these questions through fictional dialogues a...Loe edasi...
Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically-relevant connections across multiple types of borders....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Eco-Phenomenology is a comprehensive explorative volume into how we, as humans, interact with and perceive our natural world. Spanning seven thematic parts, over thirty chapters offer fresh perspectives on our relationship...Loe edasi...
Dialogues on Free Will presents a lively debate that will interest anyone wanting to think seriously about what free will requires and whether or not we have it....Loe edasi...
Farmed animals all have stories to tell but few get the chance to do so; this book amplifies their unique voices via the narratives of rescued animals. Each chapter looks at a species entwined history with humanity as well as the biological and neur...Loe edasi...
Applying Ethical Principles in Healthcare Practice provides a concise overview of bioethics, for all those who encounter moral dilemmas as part of their professional responsibilities to their patients. This guide is written in clear and accessible l...Loe edasi...
Featuring both defenders and critics of conventionalism, Conventionalism About Personal Identity will be of great interest to upper-level students and scholars studying personal identity, metaphysics and ethics....Loe edasi...
Current perspectives on AI tend to focus on the wide parameters between fear and hope. Realistic and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence provides some (ethical) hope with realistic solutions. It deals with the complexities of AI, unpacking specif...Loe edasi...
Should our beliefs be proportioned to our evidence? Are we doing something wrong in believing with little or no evidence? And may our beliefs be based partly or wholly on moral considerations? These questions are harder than you think....Loe edasi...
This book is an in-depth exploration of Spec Ops. The Line, a critically acclaimed video game that subverts its genre by confronting players with the psychological and moral consequences of war. This study will interest researchers and students of v...Loe edasi...
This book explores the topic of interspecies emotional labour through the work of guide dogs and their instructors. The skill of managing emotions to present oneself with the professionalism is referred to as emotional labour....Loe edasi...
Updated and revised throughout and includes a new chapter on relational egalitarianism. Essential reading for anyone studying distributive justice, and will also be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy, economics, political theory,...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and digitalization in technology, epistemology, ethics, and governance. It aims to encourage inclusive and responsible digital development c...Loe edasi...
As digital technologies become more pervasive and powerful, they raise increasingly pressing ethical questions that need to be understood and addressed....Loe edasi...
This book looks at our relationships of dominance with and affection for animals. It reviews how animals played a pivotal role in ancient civilizations, and still play a fundamental part in human lives, and looks at how many humans feel deep affecti...Loe edasi...
This fully revised 2nd edition includes new material on pandemic-era track and trace, and emerging technologies such as digital identity, AI, and the internet of things. Ideal for students of applied ethics, technology ethics, privacy, politics, jou...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the concept of likelihood of success in just war thinking and argues that if the concept is to be retained, it must be reconsidered within the overall whole of the tradition of just war....Loe edasi...
On his deathbed, Adam Smith ordered the burning of two unfinished works on epistemology and politics, fearing that his image as a philosopher would be tarnished and his ideas misinterpreted. This book argues that the inability to complete these two...Loe edasi...
Faced with the global crisis of human caused environmental harm, this eloquently written text explores the connection between our individual virtues and vices and those of larger groups, such as societies, nations and businesses....Loe edasi...
This volume presents a comprehensive examination of one of bioethics most divisive debates: whether human organs should be bought and sold. It brings together diverse philosophical perspectives from leading scholars who explore the moral, political...Loe edasi...
Utilizing hermeneutical, moral, and political philosophy and discourse analysis, this book explores Russias war of aggression against Ukraine and exposes how (pseudo)History, gender narratives, information warfare, religious discourses, and other f...Loe edasi...
This book examines the relation between taxonomy and cognitive architecture in human reasoning. It offers a novel argument for voluntarism of belief that is grounded in empirical research....Loe edasi...
This book argues for an inclusive definition of the family that recognizes diverse caregiving relationships and outlines distinct familial and governmental obligations based on a taxonomy of needs....Loe edasi...
While global justice is a hot topic in political philosophy, the place of children and children as a particular group of agents has been largely ignored. This book explores global justice for children from the perspective of the capability approach....Loe edasi...
Exploring Greenpeaces effort to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century, this book examines how this work is affected and informed by the organisations controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980...Loe edasi...
The debate about vivisection is over 150 years old yet until this book was published in 1987 there had been few studies of the historical context of the vivisection controversy. This book places the often vehement arguments of pro- and anti-vivisect...Loe edasi...
This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the anticipatory ethical issues associated with human genetic enhancement. It provides instructive clarifications for understanding the philosophy and science behind this long-standing bioethical debat...Loe edasi...
First Published in 1977, Goals for Mankind presents a comprehensive world Atlas of contemporary goals both for individuals and societies. Divided in three parts. It looks at the ways in which people can work towards these goals and transform the val...Loe edasi...
This book places the philosophy of Simone Weil into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns in the Anthropocene. For Simone Weil scholars and academics, as well as students and researchers interested in environmental ethics in departme...Loe edasi...
This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics. It provides the theoretical foundations for a virtue ethics that is applicable to public health, as well as political institutions more broadly....Loe edasi...
