SpringerBriefs in Ethics – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
51 produkter
Stakeholder Theory
A Model for Strategic Management
Av Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff
Häftad, 2016
607 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides an academic introduction to, and presentation and defence of stakeholder theory as a model for the strategic management of businesses and corporations, as well as of public organizations and institutions. The concept of the stakeholder is generally applied to parties that affect …
Neuroenhancement: how mental training and meditation can promote epistemic virtue.
Av Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
Häftad, 2015
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores how one can bring about changes in the brain through meditation, both through attention-focus training and through compassion training. Recent findings in the natural sciences have confirmed that it is possible for humans to achieve these structural and functional changes through …
Foucault and the Human Subject of Science
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers a clear analysis of Foucault’s work on scientific knowledge and its relationship to individuals and society. It suggests a way of using Foucault’s tools for science criticism and resistance, while avoiding the pitfalls of vulgar relativism or irrational anti-science views. Two …
Toward a New (Old) Theory of Responsibility: Moving beyond Accountability
Av Daryl Koehn
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers a much needed overview of the neglected notion of responsibility. Instead of offering vague talk about “individual responsibility” or “corporate responsibility,” Daryl Koehn examines in detail four accounts of responsibility, taking care to specify what responsibility does and does …
Morality of Weapons Research
Why it is Wrong to Design Weapons
Av John Forge
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book addresses the morality of engaging in weapons research, a topic that has been neglected but which is extremely important. It is argued that this activity is both morally wrong and morally unjustifiable, and this implies that moral persons should not engage in it. The argument is not based …
Ethical Challenges in Multi-Cultural Patient Care
Cross Cultural Issues at the End of Life
Häftad, 2019
736 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides an up-to-date description of cross-cultural aspects of end-of-life decision-making. The work places this discussion in the context of developments in the United States such as the emphasis on patient informed consent, “right to die” legal cases, and the federal Patient …
Good Organizational Decisions
Ethical Decision-Making Toolkit for Leaders and Policy Makers
Häftad, 2020
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is both a workbook and process guide for making ethical system-level decisions. It is of great use to any individual or team that is looking for support in making an ethically-justified system-level decision – that is, a decision that will impact people in more than one or two individual …
Human Challenge Studies in Endemic Settings
Ethical and Regulatory Issues
Av Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Michael J. Selgelid
Häftad, 2020
102 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book provides an extensive review of ethical and regulatory issues related to human infection challenge studies, with a particular focus on the expansion of this type of research into endemic settings and/or low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Human challenge studies (HCS) …
Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI
Av Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
225 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book introduces the reader to the foundations of AI and ethics. It discusses issues of trust, responsibility, liability, privacy and risk. It focuses on the interaction between people and the AI systems and Robotics they use. Designed to be accessible for a broad audience, reading …
Artificial Intelligence and Bioethics
Av Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Berna Arda
Häftad, 2020
769 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores major bioethical issues emerging from the development and use of artificial intelligence in medical settings. The authors start by defining the past, present and future of artificial intelligence in medical settings and then proceed to address the resulting common and specific …
Implementing Responsible Research and Innovation
Organisational and National Conditions
Av Christian Wittrock, Ellen-Marie Forsberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
225 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough understanding of the different aspects of RRI, and of barriers and drivers of …
Philosophy of Advanced Medical Imaging
Av Elisabetta Lalumera, Stefano Fanti
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the first book to explore the epistemology and ethics of advanced imaging tests, in order to improve the critical understanding of the nature of knowledge they provide and the practical consequences of their utilization in healthcare. Advanced medical imaging tests, such as PET and MRI, …
Ultimate Enhancement of Morality
Av Vojin Rakić
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book deals with good, evil, happiness and morally enhanced post-humans. It offers a succinct historical elaboration of philosophical stances towards morality and happiness, focusing on Kant's ideas in particular. Human augmented ethical maturity in a futuristic version of Kant’s Ethical …
How to Enhance Morality
Av Vojin Rakić
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers an innovative approach to moral enhancement. We, as humans, have a moral duty to be as good as we can be. Hence, moral bio-enhancement (MBE), if effective and safe, is our moral duty. However, it has to be voluntary because if it is made compulsory, human freedom (of the will) …
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
Av Marcus Smith, Seumas Miller
Häftad, 2021
333 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the implications for law and regulation. The five chapters examine the main forms of …
Business Ethics and Critical Consultant Jokes
New Research Methods to Study Ethical Transgressions
Häftad, 2022
324 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book offers four ways to enrich traditional research methods in business ethics. By looking at critical jokes and cartoons on management consultants, their business practice and their clients’ demands, many ethical transgressions in business get addressed. By illustrating and …
Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Pediatric Suffering
Av Tyler Tate
Häftad, 2022
607 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What is pediatric suffering, and how is the suffering of sick children different from that of sick adults? This book attempts to answer these pressing questions. Through philosophical engagement with a clinical case, the essays in this book approach the problem of pediatric suffering from a set of …
AI Ethics in Higher Education: Insights from Africa and Beyond
Av Caitlin C. Corrigan, Simon Atuah Asakipaam m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
333 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book tackles the pressing problem of integrating concerns related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics into higher education curriculums aimed at future AI developers in Africa and beyond. For doing so, it analyzes the present and future states of AI ethics education in local …
Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings
Genomic Morality Beyond the Secular Paradigm
Häftad, 2024
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This open access book offers unique insights into the key ethical issues faced by practitioners and discussed by ethicists in the field of genomics and incidental findings, with a focus on the Islamic moral tradition. Embark on an enlightening exploration of key ethical challenges in genomics and …
Trolleyology in Medicine
How the Trolley Problem Sheds Light on Medical Ethics
Häftad, 2024
621 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides an overview of how the intricacies of the Trolley Problem shed light on various aspects of medical ethics. It shows how trolley dilemmas have become useful to ethicists to the extent that they activate intuitions and provide guidance about what the relevant moral principle ought …
Professional Autonomy
A Guidebook for the Caring Professions
Häftad, 2024
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Aimed at supporting their emancipatory project, this book explores strategies for resisting dominance and enhancing agency within the caring professions. It helps bridge the gap between theoretical and practical autonomy in these fields, which have long been overshadowed by other professional …
Metaverse: A Critical Assessment
Av Philip Brey
Häftad, 2025
256 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers an extensive assessment of the nature and feasibility of the metaverse and is the first to critically examine its social and ethical implications. The metaverse is, in essence, an envisioned future merger of virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) and the internet, enabling …
Introduction to Human Rights in African Philosophy
Häftad, 2025
551 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the first book to focus on the concept of human rights in African philosophy and the debates surrounding it. It provides its readers–from policymakers to scholars, from experts in human rights to experts in African philosophy–with a succinct, general guide on the key theorists, themes, and …
Assisted Dying, Discrimination, and Structural Injustice
Häftad, 2025
498 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book provides an overview of discrimination and structural injustice in assisted dying. It differentiates between direct and indirect discrimination at both the individual and organizational levels, and it pays particular attention to indirect discrimination due to structural factors that have …
Informed Consent for AI and Health Care
Consumer Rights and Industry Obligations
Häftad, 2026
513 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book clarifies the differing roles of informed consent in healthcare as well as the guidelines, rules, and laws governing consent. The growing use of AI in health care has led to open questions about disclosure to the public as well as to healthcare consumers. There is no universal right to …
Political Corporation: Carl Schmitt and Business Ethics
Av Bart Jansen
Häftad, 2026
498 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book critically explores the transformation of business ethics from a reflective moral practice into a domain shaped by legal compliance and political power. Bridging legal theory, political philosophy, and corporate studies, it examines how ethics is both depoliticized through juridification …
Moral Status of Artificial Intelligence
Intentionality, Normativity and Responsibility
Häftad, 2027
1075 kr
Kommande
This book clarifies the ethical impact of artificial intelligence systems on society and examines their moral standing. To clarify the moral status of AI, it draws on conceptual tools from postphenomenology while introducing new concepts to account for the specificity of AI systems in relation to …
Neuroenhancement: How Mental Training, Meditation, AI, and Psychedelics Can Promote Epistemic Virtues
Av Barbro Fröding, Walter Osika
Häftad, 2027
621 kr
Kommande
This book explores how various AI tools, psychedelics such as psilocybin, meditation techniques—particularly attention-focused training and compassion training—and virtue training might support, inform, or undermine virtue development and good decision-making. Such cognitive and moral improvements …
Human Right to Culture in Law and Practice
On Cultural Rights
Häftad, 2027
509 kr
Kommande
This book identifies and defines the human rights that are cultural, and directly relate to the arts, creative and heritage sectors. It describes how cultural rights operate within the human rights system of international law and institutions, and explains the various ways in which these rights are …
American Experience in Environmental Protection
Av Lisa Newton
Häftad, 2013
607 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book tracks the growth of environmental awareness and conservation in the United States through the major trends of the 20th century, and establishes a philosophical ground for protection of the environment. It records a major cultural shift in the thinking of this nation, and provides …
