Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders – serie
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Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology
Caught in the Web
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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To what degree is technology in the form of products and processes capable of contributing human enhancement and wellbeing? In cases where the impact of a technology on society is not only very negligible but overall negative and harmful, what is technology good for? To answer these questions, …
Virtue as Identity
Emotions and the Moral Personality
Inbunden, 2016
1837 kr
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Virtue as Identity offers a study of how virtue is learned and identity acquired through the selection and internalization of values. A large part of this process is externally imposed through culture. Another, perhaps more important part of the process is the result of individual and collective …
Normative Identity
Av Per Bauhn
Inbunden, 2017
1837 kr
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Normative Identity is about how we define ourselves and others in terms of our ideas about the good and the right. Conflict as well as cooperation spring from our normative identity. Terrorists as well as social reformers find meaning and justification for their actions in their beliefs about whom …
Normative Identity
Av Per Bauhn
Häftad, 2018
570 kr
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Normative Identity is about how we define ourselves and others in terms of our ideas about the good and the right. Conflict as well as cooperation spring from our normative identity. Terrorists as well as social reformers find meaning and justification for their actions in their beliefs about whom …
Human Value, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability
The Precautionary Ecosystem Health Principle
Av Mark Ryan
Inbunden, 2016
1837 kr
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It is widely acknowledged that we have a duty to protect the environment. Yet, current environmental policy discussions demonstrate that fulfilling this in practice is a difficult, complex, and costly task. There are many ethical questions arising from such discussions. Should we care about the …
Partial Values
A Comparative Study in the Limits of Objectivity
Av Kevin DeLapp
Inbunden, 2018
1696 kr
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When, if ever, is it permissible to afford special consideration to friends and family? How can we strive to be objective in our thinking, and is this always a feasible or appropriate aim?This book examines the categories of impartiality and objectivity by showing how they frame certain debates in …
Incommensurability and its Implications for Practical Reasoning, Ethics and Justice
Av Martijn Boot
Inbunden, 2017
1837 kr
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If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other. However, under particular conditions incommensurability prevents the assignment of determinable and impartial weights. In those cases an objective balance does not exist. The original thesis of this …
Charles Taylor's Doctrine of Strong Evaluation
Ethics and Ontology in a Scientific Age
Inbunden, 2017
1992 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive critical account of the philosophy of Charles Taylor. The author engages with the secondary literature on Taylor's work and suggests that some interpretations and criticisms have been based on misunderstandings of the ontological dimension of strong evaluation, …
Charles Taylor's Doctrine of Strong Evaluation
Ethics and Ontology in a Scientific Age
Häftad, 2019
514 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive critical account of the philosophy of Charles Taylor. The author engages with the secondary literature on Taylor's work and suggests that some interpretations and criticisms have been based on misunderstandings of the ontological dimension of strong evaluation, …
On Music, Value and Utopia
Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come?
Inbunden, 2018
1837 kr
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Adorno’s writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that ‘he didn’t listen to the right jazz’ or ‘he was a snob’. In this book, using Adorno’s aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach to the …
On Music, Value and Utopia
Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come?
Häftad, 2019
631 kr
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Adorno’s writings are often the starting point for the teaching of popular music studies, usually passing swiftly on, after concluding that ‘he didn’t listen to the right jazz’ or ‘he was a snob’. In this book, using Adorno’s aesthetic theory more generally, a viable philosophical approach to the …
Sovereignty as Value
Av André Santos Campos, Susana Cadilha
Inbunden, 2021
1427 kr
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Sovereignty as Value is one of the first books to examine sovereignty using solely a normative approach. Through fourteen original essays, the book seeks to understand its viability in a globalized world, thus taking into account the inclusion of a language of rights, limitation and legitimacy. The …
Normativity in African Regional Relations
Inbunden, 2022
1214 kr
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In cases that involve domination of, and discrimination against, minorities, the most common solution is the promotion of minority rights. However, this book contends that in the context of migrant minorities in Africa, appealing to minority rights is not a workable solution due to the historical …
Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology
Caught in the Web
Inbunden, 2021
1214 kr
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To what degree is technology in the form of products and processes capable of contributing human enhancement and wellbeing? In cases where the impact of a technology on society is not only very negligible but overall negative and harmful, what is technology good for? To answer these questions, …
