Ethics and moral philosophy Books

Book SynopsisVittorio Hosle, touted as 'the' German philosopher of the coming generation, exhibits his wide range of scholarship in this, his first book published in America. "Although treating quite different subjects, these essays are linked together by a common philosophical project - the revitalization of the tradition of objective idealism. The conviction that we can have synthetic a priori knowledge, and that this knowledge discovers something that is independant of our mind, is of particular importance for practical philosophy ...The position here defended in systematic terms is also seen in the context of a philosophical history of philosophy, namely as a possible synthesis of realism and subjective idealism, enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, and as the supposition of revewing the humanities tradition." - from the Preface. Not content with merely 'telling' us how to find a way back to objective idealism, Hosle 'exhibits' his philosophy in a wide-ranging series of essays on topics ranging form the reatness and limits of Kant's practical philosophy to the moral ends and means of world population policy, from moral reflection and the decay of institutions in the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment to a reflection on philosophical foundations of a future humanism in our world of overinformation.Table of Contentspreface, notes

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Book SynopsisCan there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is 'yes.' These essays, selected from the writings of one of the most influential philosophers of the past hundred years, provide a clear statement of Maritain's theory of natural law and natural rights. Maritain's ethics and political philosophy occupies a middle ground between the extremes of individualism and collectivism. Written during a period when cultural diversity and pluralism were beginning to have an impact on ethics and politics, these essays provide a defense of natural law and natural right that continues to be timely. The first essay introduces Maritain's theory of connatural knowledge - knowledge by inclination - that lies at the basis of his distinctive views on moral philosophy, aesthetics, and mystical belief. The secondgives Maritain's principal metaphysical arguments for natural law as well as his account of how that law can be naturally known and universally held. The third explains the roots of the natural law and shows how it provides a rational foundation for other kinds of law and for human rights. In the fourth essay, reflecting his personalism and integral humanism, Maritain indicates how he extends his understanding of human rights to include the rights of the civic and of the social or working person.Trade Review"Morality is problematic - in theory as well as in practice. Perhaps because morality is inescapable, however, philosophers and others now write and talk a great deal about its nature and source. These six publications bear witness to the extent of current interest and to the range of contemporary perspectives. Most are short and are either intended for a non-academic readership or are written in styles largely intelligible to such. Natural Law by the late Jacques Maritain, and Philippa Foot's Natural Goodness, are linked by being in the tradition of Aristotle and Aquinas. As the most philosophical of the books, these are likely to be found the most difficult. Maritain, who died in 1973, was a convert to Catholicism (this book collects material mostly from the early 1950s). Foot is an admirer of Aquinas and acknowledges a great intellectual debt to her former colleague Elizabeth Anscombe, a Catholic; but her own attitude to Christianity is ambiguous.This is Foot's long-awaited first book, published in her eightieth year. The core idea animating these two slim volumes is that an agent's good consists in the realisation of one's proper nature. This does not mean that one should do just 'what comes naturally', but that one should do what pertains to one's nature as a member of a species with certain powers, most importantly that of reason. In short, one should act according to rational animal nature. To ground morality in this way presupposes that we all share in a common human nature, and can extract duties from it. This is anathema to those who insist that values have nothing to do with facts; and it is likely to seem pre-Darwinian in suggesting that human nature has a specific purpose beyond mere adaptation. Foot effectively reasserts the Aristotelian view that each species has a rationally discernible fulfilment, whether it has arisen by accident or artifice. From this defence of natural value in general, she moves to the special case of human action and its relation to the end of human happiness. Such a notion as happiness, she confesses, is 'deeply problematic' because of the diversity of views about what constitutes human happiness; and because it is easy to slip into a utilitarian way of thinking in which the end justifies the means, even to the extent of permitting harm to be inflicted. Foot's response is to insist that the focus of moral evaluation is not states of affairs or outcomes but persons and their actions. How, though, may we know what befits human flourishing? Foot writes of natural goodness largely from the standpoint of actions. In one of his essays, 'On Knowledge through Connaturality', Maritain introduces a different (and now largely neglected) perspective: because virtue is embodied in the person, 'a virtuous man may possibly be utterly ignorant in moral philosophy, and know as well - probably better - everything about virtues. . . '. Maritain argues that similar knowledge is involved in aesthetic and mystical experience. William Sweet is to be congratulated for editing this collection, which also relates natural goodness to the issues of justice and rights, and for providing a helpful introduction. Gordon Graham's Evil and Christian Ethics and Terence Penelhum's Christian Ethics and Human Nature are avowedly religious in orientation. Human nature features again in both books. Both authors are Ang-lican and invoke Christian understandings while writing as professional philosophers. Penelhum keeps furthest from moral the-ology while Graham develops an argument designed to show that our experience of good and evil is best made sense of by Christianity. Graham is a lively writer, unhesitant in expressing challenging opinions: 'if Christianity is to have anything distinctive to say about morality. . . it must do so by connecting morality with Jesus as an agent of cosmic history rather than a teacher of precepts.' In other words, Jesus is not merely another 'moral teacher' but the Incarnation of God in human history, affording us a fuller understanding of our shared human nature. Simon Blackburn and Richard Ryder, however, believe that religious ethics is undermined by the falsity of its foundational premise, namely the existence of God, and that morality must now be pursued on a secular basis. In Painism, Ryder seeks to show that you can have morality without God. Blackburn, by contrast, in Being Good, attends enthusiastically to exposing the repugnance of biblical ethics, as he sees it, and to demonstrating that appeals to divine commands are worse than irrelevant. Following Plato, he argues that moral justification for an action can never in itself be provided by appeal to its being the will of God. Both Being Good and Painism are directed towards the general reader, and each is written from and addressed to post-religious sensibilities. Both favour an account of ethics as residing in sentiment, most particularly in compassion. Reason can determine appropriate evidence and maintain ethical consistency, but ultimately what we ought to do results from feelings we have (by nature) for ourselves and others. Both authors give attention to securing what Blackburn terms 'Freedom from the bad'; but whereas for him this is only a part of morality, 'too grey and neutral to excite our ambition and admiration', for Ryder it is the very essence of ethics: 'Pain (i.e. suffering) is the only evil' and the only moral objective 'is to reduce the pain of others'. Ryder would have us adopt 'painism' as the name of the true morality. Unfortunately he supports his proposal with some dubious arguments, such as that one cannot weigh relative amounts of pain between groups and individuals because 'each individual is the boundary of its own consciousness'. Certainly one cannot pool pains in some sea of collective agony, without discrimination or quantification. But that does not show that comparative assessments cannot be made. After all, 20 single pound coins put into a scale tip the balance against a single pound coin on the other side even though each coin is 'the boundary of its own weight'. Likewise, since frustration is a form of pain as Ryder understands this, we can construct cases in which it will be justified to inflict pain on one person in order to relieve the frustrations of another. Painism all too easily slides back to utilitarianism. It is hard to assess the state of popular sentiment concerning morality, though relativism seems to be the common currency: morality is then regarded as just a matter of variable convention, with 'live and let live' being the dominant maxim. 'Live and let live', however, tends to be offered as an absolute principle leading many philosophers to regard this kind of relativism as vulgar and self-refuting. I doubt that they can easily absolve themselves from any responsibility. After all, these ideas are common among those in positions where opinions are called for and attended to, and their main sources are popular academic presentations of moral subjectivism. What emerges from this survey is that ethical theory still needs to be practised; that any adequate theory must relate good and evil to human nature; and that utilitarianism has still not gone away. Morality remains problematic." John Haldane The Tablet 28th July 2001Table of ContentsNotes, Index

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Book SynopsisThe biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle tells of a youngCanadian woman of humble background who, at the turn of the 20thcentury, discovers love with the priest of her village, a man 33 yearsolder. After three children and 15 years of happy life together, herspouse returns to the priesthood, just before the Great Depression.Trépanier narrates this brave woman's struggle to raise theirchildren alone. Her story raises questions on the mandatory celibacy ofCatholic priests and the status of women in the eyes of the CatholicChurch.Trade Review"This is the biography of an extraordinary woman who had the courage to fully embrace her love for a priest, knowing all the consequences. The author tells us the story of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle with respect and admiration. Thank you to Claire Trepanier for this touching narration and thank you also to Marie-Louise's children and grandchildren who told the author the story of their mother and grandmother. - Laurier L. LaPierre"Table of ContentsTable of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Preface Family Trees Family of Georgianne Tremblay and her two spouses Family of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle and Joseph Ray Prologue CHAPTER ONE: From Les Escoumins to Hanmer (1891–1906) Marie-Louise Bouchard Marie-Louise Labelle Arrival in Hanmer Life of Hanmer’s First Settlers Marie-Louise’s Education Primary School Tough Love And What of the Future? Spiritual Life in the Hamlet CHAPTER TWO: The New Arrival (1858–1906) Father Joseph A. Roy The Francophone Catholic Clergy in the Canadian West Wolseley, Saskatchewan Vernon, British Columbia Hanmer, Ontario (August 1906) First Meeting with Marie-Louise CHAPTER THREE: The Turning Point (1906–1916) Regular Meetings with Marie-Louise Presbytery Maid? Against All Comers Flight Impact of Their Departure CHAPTER FOUR: Family Life (1916–1928) New Identities Ottawa Rideau Park (May 1917) Life as a Couple Daily Life Intellectual Life Spiritual Life First Return to Hanmer (November 1920) Birth of Lorne 1921–1926 Gertrude’s First Communion Facing Facts Synchronicity The Big Decision (1928) CHAPTER FIVE: “Widow” with Three Children(1928–1935) Heartbreak Unexpected Visits Living Day to Day Free to Explore Life Napoléon’s Visit The Crash, 24 October 1929 Family Ties Homeowner Impact of Joseph’s Departure Religion after Joseph’s Departure The French–English Question Life During the Great Depression Bank Street (1930–1932) and Sunnyside Street(1932–1933) Stanley Avenue (1933–1935) Social Life Convalescent Home Kiosk CHAPTER SIX: Living from Hand to Mouth (1935–1944) James Street (1935–1936) Lisgar Street (1936–1937) Nepean Street (1937–1939) Rideau Street, Corner of Chapel (1939) Slater Street (1940) Central Avenue (1941) Acquaintance Changes (1942–1944) CHAPTER SEVEN: Nanny (1944–1965) Grandmother Sewing and Knitting In the Kitchen “Breaking Camp” Mother-in-Law Jake and the Kid God Back to Ottawa (1957–1965) Ogilvy’s Cinema The Countess of Ségur A Busy Room (1962–1965) The Secret CHAPTER EIGHT: Return to Her Roots (1960–1964) Graduation (1960) The Two Gossips Inner Peace The Trip to the Yukon CHAPTER NINE: Old Age, Humour and Tenderness (1965–1970) A Time to Relax Always Keeping the Secret Reminiscences of Long Ago The Bloomers The Braid Thieves CHAPTER TEN: Living in Peace (1970–1973) Housewarming A Time to Enjoy Life Artist A Time to Die Epilogue Postscript Appendices Appendix One: Arrival in Hanmer Appendix Two: House in Hanmer Appendix Three: Landowner Appendix Four: Amour Immaculé / Immaculate Love Family Documents List of People Interviewed List of People Who Helped Me in My Research Abbreviated Chronology Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the personal story of Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), whose circular memorial monument on Calton Hill is one of Edinburgh's best known landmarks. Originally a mathematician like his father, Stewart held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University for 25 years and became the most distinguished philosopher in Britain. He was a gifted teacher whose character and eloquence influenced students who were to become famous in many walks of life. Two of them became Prime Minister. A lifelong Whig, Stewart was in France at the outbreak of the French Revolution, and there knew Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. He wrote biographical memoirs of Adam Smith and two other contemporaries. He gave Britain's first course on economics, attended by all four founder members of the 'Edinburgh Review', and his political, as well as his philosophical influence extended well into the 19th century. His wife was a generous hostess whose lively and amusing letters are quoted extensively in the book, and she and Stewart are shown to have been significant figures in the cultural life of the time.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Who was Dugald Stewart?; Family Background and Infancy; At School and University (1761-1772); The Young Stewart, Mathematician (1772-1780); Boarders, Travels, Marriage and Change (1780-1785); The Young Stewart, Philosopher (1785-1787); Stewart and Robert Burns; Revolutionary France and Remarriage (1787-1790); Liberal Philosopher in a Harsh Climate (1790-96); Students and Travels (1796-1800); The Stewarts and the Palmerstons (1800-1803); Social Life and the Leslie and Ashburton Affairs (1803-1805); Towards Retirement (1806-1810); The Teacher and the Man; The Early Years of Retirement (1810-1815); Deaths of Friends and the Final Break (1815-1820); The Last Years (1820-1828); Epilogue; Index.

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Book SynopsisInterpreting Plato’s Dialogues introduces readers to some key problems in understanding Plato’s writings, and explores in-depth and critically the various ways of approaching Plato. The problem of how to interpret Plato’s dialogues dates back to Plato’s Academy, and Plato’s interpreters ought not to forego this important discussion. For how one approaches texts will inevitably influence how one interprets their contents. This is especially true of Plato’s writings, as they are, with few exceptions, dialogues. For the sake of historical accuracy, then, it is crucial that the most plausible interpretation of Plato’s works is articulated and well defended. And this is precisely what this book provides: an articulation and critical evaluation of the various ways to approach Plato’s dialogues, along with the articulation and defense of a plausible new way to interpret Plato.This new way of approaching Plato neither sees Plato’s words as doctrines according to which the dialogues are to be interpreted, nor does it reduce Plato’s dialogues to dramatic literature. Rather, it seeks to interpret the aim of Plato’s writings as being influenced primarily by Plato’s respect for his teacher, Socrates, and the manner in which Socrates engaged others in philosophical discourse. It places the focus of philosophical investigation of Plato’s dialogues on the content of the dialogues themselves, and on the Socratic way of doing philosophy.This book contains a comprehensive bibliography of philosophical sources on the interpretation of Plato’s corpus of writings, as well as some important works in the field of classical studies and philology. Interpreting Plato’s Dialogues provides both an analytical, scholarly, and thorough treatment of what is perhaps the most long-standing problem in Plato studies. The book serves quite well as a companion text to Plato’s dialogues and is of special interest to philosophers, classicists, and philologists.Trade ReviewEveryone reading or teaching Plato should doubtless read this book, both for what it does and for what it does not do. One important thing the book does not do is place scholarly interpretation of Plato in the social context of academic philosophy and philosophical training in the U.S. and Britain"". - The Review of Metaphysics

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Book SynopsisSimulating Good and Evil shows that the moral panic surrounding violent videogames is deeply misguided, and often politically motivated, but that games are nevertheless morally important. Simulated actions are morally defensible because they take place outside the real world and do not inflict real harms. Decades of research purporting to show that videogames are immoral has failed to produce convincing evidence of this. However, games are morally important because they simulate decisions that would have moral weight if they were set in the real world. Videogames should be seen as spaces in which players may experiment with moral reasoning strategies without taking any actions that would themselves be subject to moral evaluation. Some videogame content may be upsetting or offensive, but mere offense does not necessarily indicate a moral problem. Upsetting content is best understood by applying existing theories for evaluating political ideologies and offensive speech. Trade Review"A thoughtful and challenging read. Schulzke leaves no stone unturned as he asks us to consider what values we bring to games with as players, consumers, and enthusiasts." -- Aaron Trammell * Editor-in-Chief of Analog Game Studies *"A thoughtful and challenging read. Schulzke leaves no stone unturned as he asks us to consider what values we bring to games with as players, consumers, and enthusiasts." -- Aaron Trammell * Editor-in-Chief of Analog Game Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 The Conceptual Terrain of Simulation 2 The Moral Panic Surrounding Videogames 3 Imaginary Transgressions 4 Digital Morality 5 The Many Faces of Moral Reflection 6 Persuasive Games and Ideological Manipulation 7 Speaking Through Games Conclusion Acknowledgements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp the issues at hand and help him or her develop strategies to deal with them. This book addresses problems and questions that any bachelor student in the social sciences should be aware of, including plagiarism, data fabrication and other types of fraud, data augmentation, various forms of research bias, but also peer pressure, issues with confidentiality and questions regarding conflicts of interest. Cheating, ‘free riding’, and broader issues that relate to the place of the social sciences in society are also included. The book concludes with a step-by-step approach designed to coach a student through a research application process.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I: Perspectives.- Chapter 1. Science.- Chapter 2. Ethics.- Part II: Ethics and Misconduct.- Chapter 3. Plagiarism.- Chapter 4. Fabrication.- Chapter 5. Falsifying.- Part III: Ethics and Trust.- Chapter 6. Confidentiality.- Chapter 7. Science and Society.- Chapter 8. Science and Politics.- Part IV: Forms, Codes and of types Regulations.- Chapter 9. Research Ethics Step by Step.- Appendix.- Indexes.

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Book SynopsisA growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and biological origins. The present literature has focused on the link between evolution and moral realism: if our moral beliefs enhance fitness, does this mean they track moral truths? In spite of the growing empirical evidence, these discussions tend to remain high-level: the mere fact that morality has evolved is often deemed enough to decide questions in normative and meta-ethics. This volume starts from the assumption that the details about the evolution of morality do make a difference, and asks how. It presents original essays by authors from various disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, developmental psychology, and primatology, who write in conversation with neuroscience, sociology, and cognitive psychology.Table of Contents1. Situating empirically engaged evolutionary ethicsJohan De Smedt and Helen De CruzPart I. The nuts and bolts of evolutionary ethics2. Dual-process theories, cognitive decoupling and the outcome-to-intent shift: A developmental perspective on evolutionary ethicsGordon P. D. Ingram and Camilo Moreno-Romero3. Not so hypocritical after all: Belief revision is adaptive and often unnoticedNeil Levy4. The chimpanzee stone accumulation ritual and the evolution of moral behaviorJames B. HarrodPart II. The evolution of moral cognition 5. Morality as an Evolutionary ExaptationMarcus Arvan6. Social animals and the potential for morality: On the cultural exaptation of behavioral capacities required for normativityEstelle Palao7. Against the evolutionary debunking of morality: Deconstructing a philosophical mythAlejandro RosasPart III. The cultural evolution of morality8. The cultural evolution of extended benevolenceAndrés Carlos Luco9. The contingency of the cultural evolution of morality, debunking, and theism vs. naturalismMatthew Braddock10. Morality as cognitive scaffolding in the nucleus of the Mesoamerican cosmovisionAlfredo Robles-Zamora

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Book SynopsisThis book is written for software product teams that use AI to add intelligent models to their products or are planning to use it. As AI adoption grows, it is becoming important that all AI driven products can demonstrate they are not introducing any bias to the AI-based decisions they are making, as well as reducing any pre-existing bias or discrimination. The responsibility to ensure that the AI models are ethical and make responsible decisions does not lie with the data scientists alone. The product owners and the business analysts are as important in ensuring bias-free AI as the data scientists on the team. This book addresses the part that these roles play in building a fair, explainable and accountable model, along with ensuring model and data privacy. Each chapter covers the fundamentals for the topic and then goes deep into the subject matter – providing the details that enable the business analysts and the data scientists to implement these fundamentals. AI research is one of the most active and growing areas of computer science and statistics. This book includes an overview of the many techniques that draw from the research or are created by combining different research outputs. Some of the techniques from relevant and popular libraries are covered, but deliberately not drawn very heavily from as they are already well documented, and new research is likely to replace some of it. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Fairness and proxy features.- Bias in data.- Explainability.- Remove bias from ML model.- Remove bias from ML output.- Accountability in AI.- Data & Model privacy.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book helps readers combine history, politics, and ethics to address the most pressing problem facing the world today: environmental survival. In A Climate of Justice, Marvin Brown connects the environmental crisis to basic questions of economic, social, and racial justice. Brown shows how our current social climate maintains systemic injustices, and he uncovers resources for change through a civic ethics of repair and reciprocity. A must-read for researchers and educators in the area of environmental ethics and those teaching courses in the fields of public policy and environmental sustainability. With the support of more than 30 libraries, the LYRASIS United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund has enabled this publication related to SDG13 (Climate Action) to be available fully open access. Table of ContentsPreface PART 1: THE INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK Chapter 2 THE EARTH Chapter 3 OUR HUMANITY Chapter 4 THE SOCIAL Chapter 5 THE CIVIC PART 2: TELLING “TELLING” STORIES Chapter 6 WHITE COMPROMISES AND AMERICAN PROSPERITY Chapter 7 EINHOLD NIEBUHR DURING THE TIME OF THE WHITE COMPROMISE Chapter 8 THE SHARECROPPER’S STORY AND AN ETHICS FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM PART 3: EMPOWERING THE CIVIC Chapter 9 CIVILIAN EMPOWERMENT: A THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY Chapter 10 THE CITIZEN’S ROLE IN CREATING A CLIMATE OF JUSTICE Chapter 11 AN INVITATION TO CIVIC DIALOGUE Index

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Book SynopsisThis book covers practical and philosophical aspects of Engineering, paying special attention to the social impacts of emerging technologies. Some fundamentals of philosophy of technology are introduced followed by social, economic, and environmental discussion and implications in different disciplines. Each chapter provides insights on the responsibilities involved in the design of engineering projects. The examples presented combine concepts about the impacts of Engineering in society at the same time that incorporates new technological models, yielding an innovative approach about the topics. Table of Contents1 Introduction and discussion of a new syllabus in Engineering courses2 Philosophy in Engineering3 Design norms4 Engineering and social welfare5 Dynamic Systems applied to social modelling6 Legal Aspects of Engineering7 Sustainability8 Stability9 Metrics of performance10 Renewable sources11 Control12 Statistic13 Economy14 Telecommunications15 Optimization16 Electric Vehicles and storage17 Dams

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Book SynopsisThis book proposes an integrated and interdisciplinary approach recording and interpreting the human experience of illness, disability, care, and medical intervention. In our age of deeply technologically-driven medicine, it is crucial to re-establish and promote the neglected relationship between medicine and the arts. This textbook contains contributions by scholars in various fields, who offer their qualified insights in order to reflect on illness, medicine, and the role of physicians and nurses. All chapters overcome a reductive conception of a medicine that is only able to biologically explain illness.All three editors of this book are researchers in Padua, a city that has been described as the cradle of modern medicine. Galileo Galilei taught for eighteen years at the University of Padua and developed the scientific method there. During the same period, Padua was also the “nursery of arts”, as Shakespeare wrote. In fact, Padua developed, especially in the XIV, XV, and XVI centuries, an impressive and unique artistic culture thanks to artists such as Giotto, Donatello and Titian. Finally, the city of Saint Anthony is a place where a religious feeling strongly oriented towards charity is deeply rooted and strictly linking its history to that of its hospital. This textbook is a unique resource for students of medicine, nursing, bioethics, psychology, theology, and history of art.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1: The Medical Humanities.- Chapter 2: Clinical Ethics in the Context of Medical Humanities.- Chapter 3: Perspectives on "Mediterranean Bioethics".- Chapter 4: Medical Liability: Two Historical Cases from Padua.- Chapter 5: Medical Issues in Italian Frescoes.- Chapter 6: The Sculpted Body: Interferences between Beauty and Anatomy.- Chapter 7: Clinical Narratives. Stories and Ethics in Healthcare.- Chapter 8: Viral pandemics and the advent of a neo-Renaissance. A Lacanian reading of Dan Brown’s Inferno.- Chapter 9: Psychic Life and Things: Architecture, Urbanism, and Pan-diadromous.- Chapter 10: A Narrative Shift for Clinical Bioethics. The role of Cinema.- Chapter 11: The Hunter Gracchus, a Franz Kafka story of death's dehumanization.- Chapter 12: Why not dream? Murano: Glass and Spirit.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents. The central thesis is that the idea of an option should be taken as primitive, and that other agentive notions – such as ability, skill, and free will – should be understood in terms of options. The main contributions of this book are twofold. First, it resolves many of the outstanding questions in the metaphysics and semantics of agentive modality. In doing so, it develops original accounts of topics that have been central to philosophy since Aristotle. It also contributes to a lively contemporary literature on these topics. Second, it articulates an austere and uncompromising form of compatibilism about free will, termed “simple compatibilism.” Simple compatibilism is so-called because it rejects both the reductive theses endorsed by traditional compatibilists and the sophisticated proposals of many contemporary compatibilists. Instead, it turns precisely on insisting that options are analytically simple. Arguments for incompatibilism are shown to rest on auxiliary principles that should, in light of the book’s general account of options, be rejected. Table of Contents1. Foundations.2. The Simplicity of Options.3. The Analysis of Ability.4. The Active and Passive Powers.5. A Picture of Agentive Possibility.6. Chapter Six: Against Reconciliation.7. Simple Compatibilism.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field's leading scholars. Key featuresPresents a history of punishment theory from ancient times to the present. Evaluates the main proposed justifications of punishment, including retributivism, general and specific deterrence theories, mixed theories, expressivism, societal-defense theory, fair play theory, rights forfeiture theory, and the public health-quarantine model. Discusses sentencing, proportionality, policing, prosecution, and the role punishment plays in the context of the state. Examines advances in neuroscience and debates about whether free will skepticism undermines the justifiability of punishment. Considers forgiveness, restorative justice, and calls to abolish punishment. Addresses pressing social issues such as mass incarceration, juvenile justice, punitive torture, the death penalty, and cruel and unusual punishment. With its unmatched bre

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on research that shows the importance of critical adult education for the spread of food sovereignty and agroecology to more people and places. It pays particular attention to the important role that learning, education and pedagogy can play in social transformation for food sovereignty and justice—an approach referred to broadly as “Learning for Transformation”. It reveals common dynamics and principles that critical education for food sovereignty share in different contexts. The book draws together 8 chapters that offer new critical insights about why, where, and how learning for transformation is being implemented,—and what next.Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 36, issue 3, September 2019Chapter “Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the symposium on critical adult education in food movements: learning for transformation in and beyond food movements—the why, where, how and the what next?.- Transformative agroecology learning in Europe: building consciousness, skills and collective capacity for food sovereignty.- Farming for change: developing a participatory curriculum on agroecology, nutrition, climate change and social equity in Malawi and Tanzania.- Multi-actor networks and innovation niches: university training for local Agroecological Dynamization.- What’s wrong with permaculture design courses? Brazilian lessons for agroecological movement-building in Canada.- Teaching the territory: agroecological pedagogy and popular movements.- Food sovereignty education across the Americas: multiple origins, converging movements.- Images of work, images of defiance: engaging migrant farm worker voice through community-based arts.

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Book SynopsisThis book is for readers who wish to understand the ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic holistically on communities, politics, the economy, the environment, international relations, public health, and, most importantly, on their own lives and their own futures. It also helps readers to think through the wide-ranging ethical implications of the new age of global pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives to such an extent that no single publication will ever be able to capture its complexity. The book acknowledges this complexity by embracing interdisciplinary dialogue. It is open to diverse points of view, different ethical systems, and a wide variety of academic disciplines. It suggests three broad avenues to exploring the subject: Ethics for Pandemics: What ethical theories are useful for pandemic living?Ethics in Pandemics: How are long-standing ethical dilemmas revealed in pandemics? Ethics of Pandemics: How should politicians and public health

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Book SynopsisIn nine chapters, different methods and tools used in X-Phi are explained, spanning quantitative vignette studies, interactive experiments, corpus analysis, psycholinguistic experiments as well as qualitative interview studies.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and original vision: continuous support for climate policy is more likely to emerge when citizens find that the distribution of the bill for climate costs is fair.

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Book SynopsisPart I: Memorialization.- 1: Introduction to Ethical Rehabilitation after the Holocaust.- 2: Memory and Denial after the Holocaust.- 3: Mass Graves, Murder Factories, and Memorial Museums for Transitional Justice.- Part II: Reparations.- 4: Transitional Justice as Reparations that Cannot Wait.- 5: The Survivor Factor in Reparations for Transitional Justice.- Part III: Lustrations.- 6: Transitional Justice as Closure to the Past through Lustrations.- 7: Statutes of Limitations in Post-genocidal Proceeding for Justice.- 8: Hunting Nazis for a Better World .- 9: The Holocaust and the very idea of Forgiveness.- Part IV: Moving Forward with Transitional Justice.- 10: How an Ethno-Nationalism can thwart Transitional Justice.- 11: Transitional Justice and Proactive National Responses to Oppression What can a post-genocidal nation do?.- 12: Individual Engagement in Transitional Justice.- 13: Conclusion: Genocide Prevention is Still Possible.

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Book Synopsis1. Challenges of Emerging Technologies.- 2. From Emerging Technologies to Ethics.- 3. From Ethics to Emerging Technology.- 4. Technology and the Human Condition.- 5. Values and Technology.- 6. Responsible Innovation.- 7. Risks of Emerging Technologies.- 8. Thinking Machines.- 9. Life Making.- 10. Citizenship and Politics.- 11. Climate Change and Sustainability.- 12. Emerging Technology and Inequality.

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Book SynopsisAn Overview of Ethics and Indian Philosophy.- Evaluating the Role of Ethics in Academic Excellence: Insights from Indian Higher Education.- Occupational Stress Among Female Employees: Ethical Challenges in Indian Workplaces.

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Book SynopsisForeword.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Power and Influence.- 3. Moral Disengagement.- 4. Psychodynamic Factors.- 5. Authenticity and Moral Conscience.- 6. Leadership Ethics in the Information Age.- 7. Contemporary Leadership Ethics.- 8. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisCharles Taylor (1931- ) is one of the leading living philosophers. This is the first extended study on the key notions of his views in philosophical anthropology and ethical theory. Firstly, Laitinen clarifies, qualifies and defends Taylor's thesis that transcendental arguments show that personal understandings concerning ethical and other values (so called "strong evaluation") is necessary, in different ways, for human agency, selfhood, identity and personhood. Secondly, Laitinen defends and develops in various ways Taylor's value realism. Finally, the book criticizes Taylor's view that it is necessary to identify and locate a constitutive source of value, such as God, Nature or Human Reason. Taylor relies heavily on this claim in his accounts of moral life, modern identity and, most recently, secularisation. Laitinen argues that the whole notion of constitutive moral source should be dropped – Taylor's views concerning strong evaluation and value realism are distorted by the question of constitutive "moral sources".Trade Review"One of the most careful and thorough explications of Taylor's work in the field of moral theory that I have ever encountered, going into detailed interrogations of matters that other commentators, including myself, have dealt in a much more superficial way. It makes a major contribution to the growing literature on the meaning and significance of Taylor's thought. I have learnt a great deal from it and am confident that future readers will too. The book proposes answers to key questions about moral life in a very thoughtful, well-informed and sometimes counterintuitive way." Ruth Abbey, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA"

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Book SynopsisMenschen sind artikulierende Wesen: Unsere Lebensform ist davon bestimmt auszudrücken, was sich uns im Erleben und Verhalten als bedeutungsvoll aufdrängt. In diesem Buch geht es darum, aus dieser Einsicht eine integrative Anthropologie zu entwickeln, die sowohl der Einzigartigkeit unserer Lebensform als auch dem evolutionären Zusammenhang gerecht wird, in dem wir stehen. Daraus ergeben sich wichtige Konsequenzen für das Verständnis von Körperlichkeit, Handeln, Sprache, Bewusstsein und Moral.

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What reasons do we have to be moral, and are these reasons more compelling than the reasons we have to pursue non-moral projects? Ever since the Sophists first raised this question, it has been a focal point of debate. Why be Moral? is a collection of new essays on this fundamental philosophical problem, written by an international team of leading scholars in the field.

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Book SynopsisCelebrating a decade of progress in the fast developing field of management, spirituality and religion, this book provides the crème de la crème of academic scholarship in this crucial field of interest that lies in the intersection of religion/spirituality with management and organization studies, bridging the humanities, the social sciences and business and management. The very best articles that won the coveted ‘best paper of the year’ award, sponsored by the Sobey School of Business at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada and published in the top ranked interdisciplinary Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion, illustrate the development of thinking over the past decade, showcasing diverse theoretical orientations and methodological approaches, written by the leading scholars in the field. This authoritative collection will be a valued addition to university libraries as much as to specialized interest groups. The book will be serving as key text for teaching and a ‘must read’ for anyone wishing to inform themselves of this growing field of scholarship.

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Book SynopsisThis progressive resource places concepts of social determinants of health in the larger contexts of contemporary health ethics and the evolution of social reform. It provides needed analysis of the larger causes behind the immediate causes of illness and epidemics, particularly injustice, systemic inequities, and the cumulative effect of compound disadvantages. This moral approach to collective and individual responsibilities—on the part of practitioners as well as the public—supports a sound blueprint for finding answers to longstanding global and local concerns. Readers are challenged to recognize the critical role of social determinants to their perception of health issues, controversies, and possibilities as the book:· Details the epidemiologic evidence regarding social determinants of health. · Key ethical implications of the evidence regarding social determinants of health. · Considers the role of risky health behaviors in determining population health outcomes. · Addresses ethical questions of priority-setting at the policy and practice levels. · Translates social determinants of health into health policy goals. Half textbook, half monograph, Public Health Ethics and the Social Determinants of Health Is geared toward students in MPH programs as well as public health professionals in diverse contexts such as local health departments and non-profit organizations. It informs public health scientists and scholars, and can also serve as an introductory text for students in public health ethics, or as part of a general applied ethics course. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The Epidemiologic Evidence Regarding the Social Determinants of Health.- Justice, Compound Disadvantage, and Health Inequities.- Ethics, Responsibility, and Social Patterning of Risky Health Behaviors.- The Unbearable Oughtness of Public Health Policy.- The Social Determinants of Health and Public Health Practice.- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis volume links three different theoretical approaches that have a common focus on the relationship between biopolitics and bioethics. This collection of papers can be categorized into different domains that are representative of the contemporary usage of biopolitics as a concept. On the one hand, several chapters develop a clear and up-to-date understanding of the primary sources of the concept and related theories of Agamben, Negri or Foucault and approach the question of relevance within the field of bioethics. Another group of papers apply the philosophical concepts and theories of biopolitics (biopower, Homo Sacer, biocitizenship) on very specific currently debated bioethical issues. Some scholars rely on the more mundane understanding of (bio)politics and investigate how its relationship with bioethics could be philosophically conceptualized. Additionally, this work also contains papers that follow a more legally oriented analysis on the effects of contemporary biopolitics on human rights and European law. The authors are philosophers, legal scholars or bioethicists. The major strength of this volume is to provide the reader with major insights and orientation in these different contemporary usages of the concept and theories of biopolitics, within the context of its various ethically relevant applications.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the volume: Perspectives on biopolitics and bioethics; Péter Kakuk.- Biopolitics and Biopower. The Foucauldian Heritage in the Light of the Contemporary Usage; Takács, Ádám.- How to get plump, or why do we choose what we choose?; Devisch, Ignaas.- preface:Theories of biopolitics and bioethical issues; Péter Kakuk.- Biological or Democratic Citizenship?; Árnason, Vilhjálmur.- Biopolitics and the Longevity of Lefthanders ; Arnason, Gardar.- Chronic Disorders of Consciousness and Homo Sacer; Edgar, Andrew.- Government, Big Pharma and the Exercise of Biopower: The ethical acceptability of lobbying and promotion; Badcott, David.- preface: Biopolitics and legal discourse; Péter Kakuk.- The ME MOLECULE; Sándor, Judit.- Of Emerging Life in Law: the European Story; Selkälä, Toni.- Beyond bioethics and biopolitics? Doing privacy ethics in whole Genome sequencing research; Schickhardt, Christoph & Winker, Eva C.- preface: Questions of relatedness: bioethics and biopolitics; Péter Kakuk.- Can bioethics escape from biopolitics?; ten Have, Henk.- Bioethics as politics Takala, Tuija.- On the relationship between bioethics and biopolitics; Gunson, Darryl.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a richly interdisciplinary assessment of the thought and work of Bryan Norton, one of most innovative and influential environmental philosophers of the past thirty years. In landmark works such as Toward Unity Among Environmentalists and Sustainability: A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management, Norton charted a new and highly productive course for an applied environmental philosophy, one fully engaged with the natural and social sciences as well as the management professions. A Sustainable Philosophy gathers together a distinguished group of scholars and professionals from a wide array of fields (including environmental philosophy, natural resource management, environmental economics, law, and public policy) to engage Norton’s work and its legacy for our shared environmental future. A study in the power of intellectual legacy and the real-world influence of philosophy, the book will be of great interest scholars and students in environmental philosophy, public policy and management, and environmental and sustainability studies. By considering the value and impact of Norton’s body of work it will also chart a course for the next generation of pragmatic environmental philosophers and sustainability scholars grappling with questions of environmental value, knowledge, and practice in a rapidly changing world.Trade Review“Carl Griffin and Briony McDonagh have made an important contribution to the field of British protest studies. … in my view this is a very well-researched, informative and deeply committed collection, and it undoubtedly strengthens and enhances what is already a venerable canon of work on British protest history.” (Peter Jones, Family & Community History, Vol. 22 (2), July, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Norton on Sustainability as Such (Paul B. Thompson).- Chapter 2. Ecological Sustainability (J. Baird Callicott).- Chapter 3. Norton vs Callicott on Interpreting Aldo Leopold: A Jamesian View (Piers H.G. Stephens).- Chapter 4. The Language of Environmental Ethics: Escaping The Emotivist Trap (Daniel W. Bromley).- Chapter 5. Environmental Pragmatism, Decision Theory, and Systematic Conservation Planning (Sahotra Sarkar).- Chapter 6. Values Pluralism and “Sustainability” (Richard Howarth).- Chapter 7. Shared Values and Scientific Knowledge in Environmental Decision-making (Evelyn Brister).- Chapter 8. Adaptive Management as a Theory of Intergenerational Justice? (Clark Wolf).- Chapter 9. Leadership for Sustainability (R. Bruce Hull).- Chapter 10. The Power of Process: A Role for Norton’s Deliberative Approach to Sustainability in Building Constituencies for Change (Paul D. Hirsch) etc.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Medizinische Ethik als Reflexion und Erfahrung.- Ursprung der medizinischen Ethik in der Situation des Helfens.- Anspruch der medizinischen Ethik.- Grundthemen der medizinischen Ethik.- 2. Einzelthemen der medizinischen Ethik.- Lebensbeginn.- Geburtenkontrolle.- Sterilisation.- Insemination.- Genetische Beratung-Pränatale Diagnostik.- Schwangerschaftsabbruch.- Perinatologie.- Lebenskrisen.- Intensivbehandlung.- Chirurgische Behandlung.- Organtransplantation.- Psychiatrisch-psychotherapeutische Intervention.- Sucht-Abhängigkeit.- Chronisches Kranksein.- Behinderung.- Gewalt und Medizin.- Katastrophen-und Wehrmedizin.- Rehabilitation-Nachsorge.- Lebensende.- Behandlungsabbruch.- Reanimation.- Begriff und Feststellung des Todes.- Sterbehilfe.- Wahrheit am Krankenbett.- Suizid.- Trauer.- Forschung.- Humanexperiment-Heilversuch..- Arzneimittelprüfungen.- Genforschung-Genmanipulation.- Ethikkommissionen.- Anhang. Textauswahl: Gesetzestexte und öffentliche Stellungnahmen.- Verzeichnis der Texte.- Gesetzestexte und öffentliche Stellungnahmen.

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Book SynopsisBand VII der Hausdorff Edition widmet sich dem philosophischen Werk F. Hausdorffs. Der Band enthält den Aphorismenband "Sant' Ilario. Gedanken aus der Landschaft Zarathustras", das erkenntniskritische Buch "Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese" sowie drei bemerkenswerte Essays über Nietzsches Werke - alle unter dem Pseudonym Paul Mongré veröffentlicht. Die beiden Bücher werden sehr eingehend kommentiert. In einer historischen Einführung des Herausgebers wird Hausdorffs philosophisches Werk in die Geschichte des philosophischen Denkens eingeordnet.Table of ContentsEinleitung des Herausgebers. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Sant' Ilario. Gedanken aus der Landschaft Zarthustras. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Selbstanzeige von Sant' Ilario. - Kommentar zu Sant' Ilario. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Selbstanzeige von Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese. - Kommentar zu Das Chaos in kosmischer Auslese. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Nietzsches Wiederkunft des Gleichen. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Nietzsches Lehre von der Wiederkunft des Gleichen. - Paul Mongré (Felix Hausdorff): Der Wille zur Macht. - Personenverzeichnis.

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Book SynopsisDie Klinische Ethik ist das Einsteigerbuch für die Ethik der Medizin im Querschnittsbereich 2. Darüber hinaus zeigt es den Weg zu ethisch verantwortlichem Handeln im klinischen Alltag. Grundlagen: Patientenverfügung, Sterbehilfe und Pränataldiagnostik. Pro & Contra argumentieren: Ethische Positionen werden ausführlich besprochen und ausgewogen bewertet.- Anschaulich und praxisnah geschrieben, mit zahlreichen Fallgeschichten. Relevant für die Praxis: Rechtlicher Kontext zu jedem Thema. - Empfehlungen ärztlicher Standesvertretungen. - Ethische Konflikte in der medizinischen Ausbildung. - 10 ethische Konfliktfälle zum Üben. Ethik endlich klinisch relevant! Table of ContentsPatientenaufklärung.- Ärztliche Schweigepflicht.- Entscheidungen am Lebensende.- Patientenverfügungen.- Entscheidungen am Beginn des Lebens.- Zwangsunterbringung und Zwangsbehandlung.- Behandlungsfehler.- Interkulturelle Konflikte.- Klinische Forschungsethik.- Mittelverteilung im Gesundheitswesen.- Ethische Konflikte in der medizinischen Ausbildung.- Medizinethisches Argumentieren.- Patientengeschichten.

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Book SynopsisWährend philosophische Theorien üblicherweise die Inkonsistenzen eines modernen Werte-Pluralismus mit neuen ethischen Konzepten heilen wollen, interessiert sich die soziologische Systemtheorie für die schlichte Beobachtung moralischer und ethischer Kommunikation. In den Blick rücken dabei praktische Situationen, in denen ethische Konzepte, moralische Subjekte, normative Ansprüche und Werte entstehen und anschlussfähig werden. Dieser Band versammelt empirische Studien zu so unterschiedlichen Kontexten wie Krankenhäusern, Wirtschaftsorganisationen, politischen Debatten und Mode und vermittelt so einen Eindruck von den unterschiedlichen Gegenwarten einer sich moralisch beschreibenden Gesellschaft.Table of ContentsSoziologie als Reflexionstheorie der Ethik.- Die Moral der Gesellschaft.- Die Ethisierung der Moral.- Medizinethik.- Organisationen und Werte.

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Book SynopsisEthik ist ein sehr altes Thema. Doch die Verbindung mit der Wirtschaft ist noch frisch und unausgereift. Es gibt reale Gründe für die Aktualität dieser Fragestellung, und zugleich gibt es Zweifel, ob wir – namentlich die Ökonomen – die richtigen Ansätze zur Wirtschaftsethik gefunden haben. Zu viele Experten haben sich in ihrem eigenen Fachdenken eingeigelt und weisen Gedanken, die neue Wege auftun wollen, ihre stachelige Seite. Meine Grundthese in dieser Schrift lautet: Die Ethik des praktischen Wirtschaftens muss nicht erst erfunden werden, sondern kann als Lehre von der moralischen Kraft aus den elementaren Komponenten des praktischen Wirtschaftens herausdestilliert und zur Sprache gebracht werden.Table of ContentsVon der natürlichen Moralität des Menschen.- Vom kulturellen Charakter der Wirtschaft.- Von der Vitalität der Wirtschaft und der Schwäche der Ökonomik.- Von der holistischen Annäherung an die Praxis des Wirtschaftens.- Von der Moralität der praktischen Unternehmensführung.

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Book SynopsisGesellschaft und Konsens sind zwei Begriffe, die sich nur widersprüchlich aufeinander beziehen lassen. Einen gesellschaftlichen Konsens hat es nie gegeben. Vielmehr offenbart die Rede von der Konsensgesellschaft eine Ideologie, die alles Politische negiert und unter dem Schleier der objektiven und interessensneutralen Wahrheitsfindung verdeckt. Eine demokratische Gesellschaft muss indes reif sein, für jenen Dissens der durch Diskurs nicht aufgelöst werden kann. Am Beispiel der Diskussion über die Stammzellenforschung macht Carsten Stark deutlich, dass hier gesellschaftliche Konstruktionen wirken, die von Prinzip her gegensätzliche Rationalitäten abbilden. Es handelt sich dabei um gesellschaftliche Strukturen der Reduktion von Kontingenz und der Reduktion von Ambivalenz. In einem analytischen Sinne rücken dabei die Institutionen von Profession und Religion in den Fokus.Table of ContentsStammzellenforschung. Eine Frage an die Demokratie?.- Grundlegung einer Wissenssoziologie des Politischen.- Der politische Handlungsraum am Beispiel der Stammzellenforschung.- Der Diskurs zur Stammzellenforschung und seine Positionen.- Gesellschaftstheorie und Ideologie des Funktionalismus.- Profession und Religion.- Zur Funktion des Staates.

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Book SynopsisDer Biogerontologie oder biologischen Alternsforschung ist es gelungen, den Alternsprozess von Labororganismen zu manipulieren. Biogerontologische Forscher glauben diese Erkenntnisse auch auf den Menschen übertragen zu können. Hier sollte zeitnah eine ethische Reflexion einsetzen, bevor Forschungserfolge die zukünftige Entwicklung in eine unerwünschte Richtung führen. Der Kontext für diese Reflexion besteht im demographischen Wandel und in veränderten Altersbildern. Einerseits gibt es daher Hoffnungen, dass erfolgreiche, neue Interventionen in Alternsprozesse negative Folgen des demographischen Wandels abschwächen oder gar ganz verhindern könnten. Andererseits könnten Eingriffe in Alternsprozesse auch ethische Probleme hervorbringen. Das vorliegende Buch stellt zunächst knapp biogerontologische Theorien, Konzeptionen und Methoden dar und untersucht systematisch, die sich im Anschluss daran die einschlägigen ethischen Fragen. Um diese Fragen zu beantworten werden umfangreiche interdisziplinäre Forschungsergebnisse aus Biogerontologie, Medizinethik, Philosophie und Sozialgerontologie berücksichtigt. Die Untersuchung kommt zum Ergebnis, dass es zwar einige berechtigte ethische Bedenken gegen die biogerontologische Forschung und ihre mögliche Anwendung in der Medizin gibt, aber keine berechtigten, prinzipiellen Einwände.Table of ContentsEntbehrliche Körper. Die Biogerontologie als neue theoretische Grundlage für das Verständnis des körperlichen Alter(n)s.- Biogerontologische Interventionen in Alternsprozesse.- Biologisches Altern und Krankheit.- Ziele der Biogerontologie – auch Ziele für die Medizin?.- Eine unzulässige Biomedikalisierung des Alterns?.- Altern als Übel.- Gesellschaftliche Folgen von Eingriffen in Altern.- Die Ethik der Biogerontologie und die Zukunft des Alterns.

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Book SynopsisDie Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes analysieren in kritischer Weise die Breite und Tiefe des Diskurses zu Neuro-Enhancement, der sich aber nicht nur durch ethische Fragen auszeichnet. Sie zeigen, dass es darüber hinaus grundlegende philosophische, anthropologische und gesellschaftstheoretische Aspekte sind, die im Steigerungsbedürfnis spätmoderner Leistungs(steigerungs)gesellschaften zu Tage treten. So scheint eine neue Wunschwelt vor der Tür zu stehen: Doping fürs Gehirn! Der rasante Fortschritt der Neurowissenschaften hat das menschliche Gehirn erreicht. Die Möglichkeiten der Leistungssteigerung könnten bald auch das „Innerste“ des Menschen essentiell betreffen: sein Denken und Fühlen, Entscheiden und Handeln.Die Herausgeber Prof. Dr. Nicola Erny ist Professorin für Philosophie an der Hochschule Darmstadt. Dr. Matthias Herrgen lehrte am Philosophischen Seminar der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. Prof. Dr. Jan Cornelius Schmidt unterrichtet Philosophie, Ethik und Technikfolgenabschätzung an der Hochschule Darmstadt.Table of ContentsEnhancement / Neuro-Enhancement.- Doping und Hirndoping.- Ethik und Konzepte der Ethik.- Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA).

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