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Procreative Justice
Balancing the Interests of Parents, Children, and Society
Inbunden, 2025
2504 kr
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This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making.Despite its immense personal significance, procreation is an inherently other-regarding endeavor. By its very nature, the decision to procreate is the decision to bring into existence another morally considerable …
Self-Defense, Necessity, and Punishment
A Philosophical Analysis
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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This book offers a philosophical analysis of the moral and legal justifications for the use of force. While the book focuses on the ethics self-defense, it also explores its relation to lesser evil justifications, public authority, the justification of punishment, and the ethics of war.Steinhoff’s …
Ethics of Political Dissent
Inbunden, 2022
1901 kr
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A broadly liberal politics requires political compassion, not simply in the sense of compassion for the victims of injustice but also for opponents confronted through political protest and (more broadly) dissent. There are times when, out of a sense of compassion, a just cause should not be …
Ethics and Chronic Illness
Av Tom Walker
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness. Chronic illness differs from other illnesses in that it is often incurable, patients can live with it for many years, and its day-to-day management is typically carried out by the patient or members of their family. These features …
Ethics and Error in Medicine
Av Fritz Allhoff, Sandra Borden
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error. Given the complexities of understanding, preventing, and responding to medical error in ethically responsible ways, the scope of the book is fairly broad. The contributors include top scholars and …
Ethics of Eating Animals
Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible
Av Bob Fischer
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals. Philosophers have argued, on this basis, that most people in wealthy Western contexts are morally obligated to avoid animal products. This book explains why the author thinks that’s mistaken. He reaches this negative conclusion by contending …
Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights
Ethical and Philosophical Issues
Av Jaime Ahlberg, Michael Cholbi
Häftad, 2019
764 kr
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Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights. Surprisingly, there has been comparatively little scholarly engagement across these subdisciplinary boundaries, …
Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis
Emotions, Contestation, and Agency
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international refugee and forced migration situation. In doing so, it rethinks the human capacity to care about the suffering of distant others.At a time when …
Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Building Worlds
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The author provides compelling evidence that VR …
Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age
Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity?
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity.The virtue of chastity has traditionally been portrayed as an excellent personal disposition concerning the ideal ordering of …
Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age
Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity?
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity.The virtue of chastity has traditionally been portrayed as an excellent personal disposition concerning the ideal ordering of …
Disability with Dignity
Justice, Human Rights and Equal Status
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding. Philosophers are beginning to grasp the complexity of disability—as a category, with respect to well-being and as a marker of identity. However, the philosophical literature on justice and human rights has often been limited in scope and …
Injustice of Punishment
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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The Injustice of Punishment emphasizes that we can never make sense of moral responsibility while also acknowledging that punishment is sometimes unavoidable. Recognizing both the injustice and the necessity of punishment is painful but also beneficial. It motivates us to find effective means of …
Corporal Punishment
A Philosophical Assessment
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited. Against the widespread view that corporal punishment is morally legitimate and should be legally permitted provided it falls short of abuse, …
Ethics of Climate Engineering
Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice
Av Toby Svoboda
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This book analyzes major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering, particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice. The book argues that we …
Ethics of War and the Force of Law
A Modern Just War Theory
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and explaining the moral force of widely accepted law.Traditionalist, Walzerian, and "revisionist" approaches have …
Ethics of War and the Force of Law
A Modern Just War Theory
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and explaining the moral force of widely accepted law.Traditionalist, Walzerian, and "revisionist" approaches have …
Ethics of Counterterrorism
Av Isaac Taylor
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money should be spent, we are also confronted with a host of moral issues here, many of which are poorly understood. The Ethics of Counterterrorism offers the …
Human Enhancement and Well-Being
A Case for Optimism
Inbunden, 2022
2126 kr
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New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we?This book has two main aims. First, it …
Human Enhancement and Well-Being
A Case for Optimism
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we?This book has two main aims. First, it …
Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy
Av Carl Fox, Joe Saunders
Häftad, 2020
733 kr
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How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of political equality is intimately connected to the standards and behaviour of our media in general, and our news media in particular. However, the media does …
Capability Approach in Practice
A New Ethics in Setting Development Agendas
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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This book develops a philosophical framework for selecting goals for development purposes. This inclusive and democratic framework integrates a variety of resources including philosophical theory, empirical analysis, stakeholder deliberations, local knowledge, and advice from development experts. …
Procreative Justice
Balancing the Interests of Parents, Children, and Society
Häftad, 2026
704 kr
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This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making.Despite its immense personal significance, procreation is an inherently other-regarding endeavor. By its very nature, the decision to procreate is the decision to bring into existence another morally considerable …
Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics
Häftad, 2019
733 kr
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Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on …
Friendship, Robots, and Social Media
False Friends and Second Selves
Häftad, 2019
733 kr
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Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? In this book, Alexis Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing …
Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought. His theory was, arguably, one of the first to provide a justification for political legitimacy from the perspective of each individual subject. Many excellent …
Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense?
Abortion, Hell, and Violence Against Abortion Doctors
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it …
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
Inbunden, 2016
2736 kr
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This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the …
Philosophy of Online Manipulation
Av Fleur Jongepier, Michael Klenk
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online?This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in …
New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism
Critical Perspectives
Av Cheryl Abbate, Christopher Bobier
Inbunden, 2023
2504 kr
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A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism—the view that it’s permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debate in …
