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John Wiley and Sons Ltd On Ethics and Economics
Book SynopsisSen argues that welfare economics may be enriched by paying more attention to ethics, that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with descriptive economics, which, in turn, may learn from the methods of welfare economics.Trade Review"Sen is one of the true pioneers in modern economics. He has, in effect, created a new branch of the subject... which might one day change mainstream economics beyond recognition." The Economist "Professor Sen's thoughts on both philosophy and economics are not only highly original but they are ... presented with a compelling and consummate literary skill." Times Higher Education Supplement "Sen has never acknowledged a boundary between economics and ethics. He brings philosophical arguments to bear where they are needed in economics, and combines them skillfully with formal analysis." London Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword: John M. Letiche. Preface. 1. Economic Behaviour and Moral Sentiments. Two Origins. Achievements and Weakness. Economic Behaviour and Rationality. Rationality as Consistency. Self-interest and Rational Behaviour. Adam Smith and Self-interest. 2. Economic Judgements and Moral Philosophy. Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility. Pareto Optimality and Economic Efficiency. Utility, Pareto Optimality and Welfarism. Well-being and Agency. Valuing and Value. Agency and Well-being: Distinction and Interdependence. Utility and Well-being. Achievements, Freedom and Rights. Self-interest and Welfare Economics. Rights and Freedom. 3. Freedom and Consequences. Well-being, Agency and Freedom. Plurality and Evaluation. Incompletenes and Overcompleteness. Conflicts and Impasse. Rights and Consequence. Consequential Assessment and Deontology. Ethics and Economics. Welfare, Goals and Choices. Conduct, Ethics and Economics. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
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Princeton University Press A Lot of People Are Saying
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Princeton University Press Paternalistic Intervention
Book SynopsisDonald VanDeVeer probes the moral complexities of the question: under what conditions is it permissible to intervene invasively in the lives of competent persons--for example, by deception, force, or coercive threat--for their own good? In a work with broad significance for law, public policy, professional-client relations, and private interactionsTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*One. The Nature and Scope of Paternalism, pg. 10*Two. Appeals to Consent, pg. 45*Three. Appeals to Doing Good, pg. 95*Four. The Doctrine of Informed Consent, pg. 164*Five. Death, Sex, Odysseus and the Sirens, pg. 224*Six. Paternalistic Limits on Risk Taking, pg. 302*Seven. our Dealings with Incompetents, pg. 345*Eight. Overview, Reservations, and Implications, pg. 422*Index, pg. 449
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion and Morality Routledge Philosophy of
Book SynopsisReligion and Morality addresses central issues arising from religion''s relation to morality. Part I offers a sympathetic but critical appraisal of the claim that features of morality provide evidence for the truth of religious belief. Part II examines divine command theories, objections to them, and positive arguments in their support. Part III explores tensions between human morality, as ordinarily understood, and religious requirements by discussing such issues as the conflict between Buddhist and Christian pacifism and requirements of justice, whether ''virtue'' without a love of God is really a vice, whether the God of the Abrahamic religions could require us to do something that seems clearly immoral, and the ambiguous relations between religious mysticism and moral behavior. Covering a broad range of topics, this book draws on both historical and contemporary literature, and explores afresh central issues of morality and religion offering new insights for students, academics anTrade Review’This book is careful and lucid in its presentation and assessment of arguments on religion and morality. It is also well organized...Highly recommended.’ Choice 'Insofar as the book critically presents the views of important thinkers within traditions familiar to the author, it is a rich source of insight... a scholarly appraisal... Philosophers of religion, ethicists, academics in this field and readers of general philosophy will all find this book to be valuable reading.' Science and Theology News 'Wainwright writes critically yet sympathetically about the relation between morality and religious belief and brings an admirable nuance and judiciousness to some hotly debated issues.' Conversations in Religion and Theology 'Bill Wainwright has written a penetrating and well-organized examination of the relation between religion and morality. It is a work that will be especially appreciated by analytic philosophers of religion because of the careful parsing of various positions, objections to those, and possible replies to objections. The writing is clear, and the arguments stack up higher and higher.' International Journal for Philosophy of Religion ’All-in-all, Wainwright is to be commended for producing such a lucid, comprehensive, and philosophically sohisticated book. It should be on the 'must-read' list of anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of religion.’ Philosophy in Review-Comptes rendus philosophiques ’In the entanglement of possible relationships obtaining between religion and morality, Wainwright's work remains both a tour d'history of positions on offer and a tour d' force of philosophical acumen with analytical methodology. As such, conceptually speaking, Wainwright's work is must-reading for philosophers trying to tackle crucial dimensions which have far too long been neglected or underdeveloped.’ Philsophical Investigations ’Wainwright is to be commended for producing such a lucid, comprehensive and philosophicaTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part I: Moral Arguments for the Existence of God: The 19th-century background; Kant, God, and immortality; Newman and the argument from conscience; The argument from the objectivity of value. Part II: Divine Command Theory and its Critics: The Euthyphro problem; Two recent divine command theories; Objections to divine command theory; The case for divine command theory. Part III: Human Morality And Religious Requirements: Religious ethics and rational morality; Abraham and the binding of Isaac; Mysticism and morality. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Ethics
Book SynopsisEthics: A Contemporary Introduction introduces the issues and controversies of contemporary moral philosophy. It gets students to struggle with the big questions of morality while it also relates these questions to practical issues, especially racism, global warming, moral education, and abortion. Providing a practical method for thinking about moral issuesa method based largely on the golden ruleit is written simply and clearly throughout. College students who are new to philosophy or who have already taken an introductory-level course will benefit from its use. Key Features: Serves as either the sole textbook for a lower-level introduction to ethics/moral philosophy course or a supplementary text for a more advanced undergraduate ethics course. Provides clear, direct writing throughout, making each chapter easily accessible for an engaged undergraduate student. Offers a philosophically rigorous presentation of the golden ruleTrade Review"No one weds philosophical rigor to undergraduate pedagogy like Gensler. His comprehensive explanations remain exceptionally accessible for any reader, while the addition of optional sections on advanced topics and greater emphasis on issues like global warming and multiculturalism have amplified the book’s instructional power." --Joseph Steineger, Lindenwood University, USA "A broad and keen scholar and an engaging and crystal-clear teacher, Harry Gensler introduces ethics with an approach that is truly fresh. He shows how the golden rule of treating others only in ways that are consistent with how we want to be treated can be developed into a rational framework for ethics; and he treats an ample range of problems in theoretical and applied ethics." --Jeffrey Wattles, Kent State University, USA, Emeritus "Harry Gensler’s Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction is one of the very best books of its kind. It is widely used and has been translated into four different languages. This new and improved version of Gensler’s textbook is notable for its clarity and rigor. It is particularly helpful in the way it sets out strong arguments for and against many important views and theories. Students who use this book will learn a great deal about logic and critical thinking." --Thomas Carson, Loyola University Chicago "Fr. Gensler makes significant modifications to his Second Edition in this his Third Edition of his incisive introduction to philosophy. He retains his focus on the golden rule, but now applies its ethical reasoning to more cases and also includes more advanced topics. Students will benefit in particular from the upgraded Ethicola instructional program that is included with the text." --James Swindal, Duquesne University Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Cultural Relativism Chapter 2: Subjectivism Chapter 3: Supernaturalism Chapter 4: Intuitionism Chapter 5: Emotivism Chapter 6: Prescriptivism Chapter 7: GR Logic Chapter 8: GR Applications Chapter 9: GR Frameworks Chapter 10: Consequentialism Chapter 11: Nonconsequentialism Chapter 12: Synthesis Chapter Suggested Works Bibliography Glossary Index
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Fordham University Press The Imperative to Write
Book SynopsisA philosophical analysis of the works of Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett laying stress on the aesthetic notion of the sublime, especially as defined by philosopher Immanuel Kant, and arguing that these authors incorporate sublimity into their writing while also undermining the grandeur this traditionally implies.Trade Review"Jeff Fort writes with energy and verve, ambitiously tackles some formidably difficult works, and treats in this study an extensive and important corpus of some key figures in literary modernism." -- -Alain Toumayan University of Notre Dame "The Imperative to Write examines three formidably difficult and fascinating writers of the last century: Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett. Jeff Fort analyzes the exigency to write in each of the three, and produces a powerful study of these major authors. A 'tour de force' of close reading." -- -Kevin Hart University of Virginia "In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Jeff Fort addresses some of the most enduring and intractable issues affecting modern literature." -- -Leslie Hill University of WarwickTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: "Why Do You Write?"-The Fault of Writing Part I: Kafka 1. Kafka's Teeth: The Literary Gewissenbiss 2. The Ecstasy of Judgment: Ungrasping Justice 3. Embodied Violence and the Leap from the Law: "In the Penal Colony" and The Trial 4. Degradation of the Sublime: "A Hunger Artist" Part II: Blanchot 5. Pointed Instants: Blanchot's Exigencies 6. The Shell and the Mask: L'arret de mort 7. The Dead Look: The Death Mask, the Corpse Image, and the Haunting of Fiction Part III: Beckett 8. Beckett's Voices and the Paradox of Expression Conclusion: Speech Unredeemed-From the Call of Conscience to the Torture of Language Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Fundamentalism or Tradition
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Being as Tradition Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos | 1 SECULARIZATION Secularism: The Golden Lie Graham Ward | 21 Collectivistic Christianities and Pluralism: An Inquiry into Agency and Responsibility Slavica Jakelić | 36 What Difference Do Women Make? Retelling the Story of Catholic Responses to Secularism Brenna Moore | 60 The Secular Pilgrimage of Orthodoxy in America Vigen Guroian | 80 Saeculum–Ecclesia–Caliphate: An Eternal Golden Braid Paul J. Griffiths | 94 A Secularism of the Royal Doors: Toward an Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology of Secularism Brandon Gallaher | 108 FUNDAMENTALISM Fundamentalism: Not Just a Cautionary Tale Edith M. Humphrey | 133 Resolving the Tension between Tradition and Restorationism in American Orthodoxy Dellas Oliver Herbel | 152 Fundamentalists, Rigorists, and Traditionalists: An Unorthodox Trinity R. Scott Appleby | 165 “Orthodoxy or Death”: Religious Fundamentalism during the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Nikolaos Asproulis | 180 Confession and the Sacrament of Penance after Communism Nadieszda Kizenko | 204 Conscience and Catholic Identity Darlene Fozard Weaver | 223 Fundamentalism as a Preconscious Response to a Perceived Threat Wendy Mayer | 241 Acknowledgments | 261 Contributors | 263 Index | 265
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Fordham University Press Religion Protest and Social Upheaval
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz, and Karen V. Guth | 1 Part I: Upheaval Under Capitalism 1. Capital’s “Secret Orders”: A Du Boisian Lens on the Alt- Right and White Supremacy Mark Lewis Taylor | 13 2. Protest at the Void: Theological Challenges to Capitalist Totality Devin Singh | 49 3. As the World Burns: Laudato Si’, the Climate Crisis, and the Limits of Papal Power Mary Doak | 69 Part II: Race, Aesthetics, and Religion 4. Whiteness and Civilization: Shame, Race, and the Rhetoric of Donald Trump Donovan O. Schaefer | 93 5. Rootedness on the Slippery Earth: Migration in a Time of Social Upheaval Nichole M. Flores | 112 6. Christian Responses to the “Revolutionary Aesthetic” of Black Lives Matter Jermaine M. McDonald | 124 Part III: Migration, Labor Movements, and Islam 7. Caught in the Crosshairs: Muslims and Migration Zayn Kassam | 143 8. Iftars, Prayer Rooms, and #DeleteUber: Postsecularity and the Promise/ Perils of Muslim Labor Organizing C. Melissa Snarr | 161 Part IV: Thresholds in Gender, Sexuality, and Christianity 9. Slogan, Women’s Protest, and Religion Kwok Pui-lan | 177 10. LGBTQ+ Politics and the Queer Thresholds of Heresy Ju Hui Judy Han | 195 Acknowledgments | 217 List of Contributors | 219 Index | 221
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Mills Utilitarianism Critical Essays Critical
Book SynopsisThis collection of articles by leading scholars offers fresh interpretations of Mill's ideas on happiness, moral obligation, justice and rights.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Values of Connection
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Free Will and Human Life
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Silent Sidekick LLC dba Sidekick Press What Do I Know
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Cambridge University Press Socrates on SelfImprovement
Book SynopsisThis book explains in clear language with appropriate scholarly attention to detail how and why Socrates continues to be a foundational figure in western philosophy, and especially in ethics and epistemology. It argues that the craft-model of knowledge offers a viable and potent theoretical basis for practical and ethical self-improvement.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Socrates as exemplar; 2. Socrates as apprentice at virtue; 3. Socratic motivational intellectualism; 4. Socratic ignorance; 5. Is virtue sufficient for happiness; 6. The necessity of virtue for happiness; Afterword. Review and assessment.
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Cambridge University Press MacIntyres After Virtue at 40
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Cambridge University Press Wisdom
Book SynopsisThis Element addresses questions regarding the nature and acquisition of wisdom by developing and defending a skill theory of wisdom. It develops this theory and defends it against two objections to the effect that there are asymmetries between wisdom and skill.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. A Skill Theory of Wisdom Presented: 1. Wisdom as knowing how to live well; Part II. The Theory Developed: 2. Wisdom and knowing the whys; 3. Wisdom and knowing what matters; Part III. The Theory Defended: 4. The deliberation objection: deliberation about final ends; 5. The feedback objection: feedback for skill acquisition; Conclusion; Appendix; References.
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Cambridge University Press Lying and Truthfulness
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Cambridge University Press Evil and Theodicy
Book SynopsisEvil and Theodicy motivates the project of theodicy by examining arguments rooted in evil against God's existence and by critically assessing the response of skeptical theism.Table of Contents1. God, Evil, Justification; 2. Skeptical Theism and Arguments from Evil; 3. Theodicies – Part I; 4. Theodicies – Part II; 5. Making Meaning; References.
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Cambridge University Press Ethics in the Gray Area
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Cambridge University Press On Helping Ones Neighbor
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Cambridge University Press The Ethics of Special Ops
Book SynopsisThis book addresses one largely overlooked trend in the field of military ethics, the emergence of special operations as a prominent instrument of statecraft. The authors' analysis calls attention to qualities inherent in special operations that challenge the moral framework which informs conventional military operations.
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Legare Street Press Just Being Happy a Little Book of Happy Thoughts
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Legare Street Press Character Sketches or The Blackboard Mirror
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Legare Street Press The Theory of Moral Sentiments or An Essay
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The English Gentleman and The English Gentlewoman
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Etiquette Good Manners for All People Especially
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Service Ethics
Book SynopsisThe study and practice of ethics, in all its exemplary and execrable forms, matter now more than ever. It deals with one of the most gripping questions in life: What is the right thing to do? Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities, Third Edition, introduces readers to this personally relevant and professionally challenging field of study. No matter the topicthe necessity of ethics, intriguing human behavior experiments, provocative approaches to decision-making, new theories to understand ethical actions, the role of ethics codes, whistleblowing incidents, corruption exposés, and the grandeur as well as decay of moralitythere is no shortage of controversy. This book discusses these issues, explains how they arise, and suggests what can be done about them. The authors make the narrative user-friendly and accessible by highlighting dilemmas, challenging readers to resolve them, and enticing them to go beyond the text to discover andTrade Review"In this new edition of Public Service Ethics, Bowman and West drive home the point that ethical behavior requires much more than following the rules and that ethics belongs at the center of effective and democratic governance. Up-to-date and comprehensive at the individual, organizational, and policy levels, they provide a guidebook for navigating the challenging ethical landscape of contemporary public service that can be used in both the classroom and the workplace."Danny L. Balfour, Grand Valley State University, USA"In this excellent contribution to the field, Bowman and West’s third edition continues their tradition of sweeping, cutting-edge analysis of public administration ethics. They provide a broad sweep of normative issues, emerging questions confronting the field, and one of the few in-depth treatments of institutional ethics programs."Stuart C. Gilman, United Nations Program against Corruption (Retired), USA"At a time of immense public challenges, this updated classic masterfully coaches the next generation of public servants in ethics. The authors present balanced and thorough assessments of current ethical issues facing individuals and organizations, as well as creative case studies. This is a first-rate textbook for public affairs courses."Rosemary O’Leary, University of Kansas, USA"Bowman and West's third edition brings ethics alive and up to date with examples relevant to government agencies, nonprofits, and the private sector. Current ethical dilemmas include mask wearing, societal and governmental responses to COVID, economic inequality as an ethical issue, social impact investing, the Green New Deal, and the climate crisis as ethical issues, Black Lives Matter calling attention to the disparate impact on Black men's lives of criminal justice policies, and an update of the horrific Grenfell Tower disaster. Bowman and West remind us that ethics is not for the fainthearted."Sharon Mastracci, University of Utah, USA"Public Service Ethics: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities is an excellent foundation for the study of public service ethics, providing a clear explanation of the major approaches, useful discussion topics for students, and excellent examples of ethical dilemmas in practical administration. A valuable and comprehensive text and an impressive achievement!"Ian Scott, Murdoch University, AustraliaTable of ContentsPart 1: Foundations of Public Service Ethics. 1. Pertinence, Practicality, and Poppycock. 2. Perspectives on Ethics: Macro, Meso, Micro. 3. Values, Ethics, and Dilemmas. Part 2: Individual-Centred Approaches to Ethics. 4. Moral Development Theory. 5. Cognitive Ethics Methods: Result and Rule Problem-Solving Approaches. 6. Virtue Theory. 7. Conscious Deliberation and Subconscious Action: The Dishonesty of Honest People. Part 3: Institutional Approaches to Ethics. 8. Organizational Ethics. 9. Corruption Control. 10. Whistleblowing in Organizations. Part 4: Issues in Public Service Ethics. 11. Ethics and Elected Officials. 12. Organizational Gaming and Performance Measurement. 13. At-Will Employment. 14. To "Re-Hatch" Public Employees or Not? Part 5: Future History. 15. Choices and Strategies for the Years Ahead.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Remorse and Criminal Justice
Book SynopsisThis multi-disciplinary collection brings together original contributions to present the best of current thinking about the nature and place of remorse in the context of criminal justice. Despite the widespread and long-standing nature of interest in offender remorse, the topic has until recently been peripheral in academic studies. The authors are scholars from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa and Australia, from diverse academic disciplines. They reflect on the role of remorse in law, for better or for worse; on how expressions of remorse are affected by the legal contexts in which they arise; and on the impact of these expressions on the individual, the court and the community. The work is divided into four parts Part I Judging Remorse addresses issues concerning the task of assessing remorse in the courtroom, usually prior to determining sentence. Part II Remorse Beyond the Courtroom explores the place and significance of remorse Trade Review"Remorse permeates the entire criminal justice system, affecting decisions from policing through to parole. This unique collection of essays explores the role and consequences of remorse, drawing on a range of perspectives and disciplines. It will interest scholars across many jurisdictions, and indeed to anyone with an interest in criminal justice."Julian Roberts, Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, UK"As a sentencing judge who wrestles daily with questions of whether and how to detect remorse in a highly multicultural courtroom, Part 1 – Judging Remorse - is particularly helpful in offering theoretical and practical guidance to beleaguered lawyers and judges. This excellent text should be provided to every new judge."Justice David P. Cole, Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada"Bringing remorse in from the sidelines of scholarly and policy interest `Remorse and Criminal Justice' untangles the place of this complex emotion in criminal courts and beyond. With depth and urgency, a stellar mix of authors and chapters addresses the performance, expression, experience and assessment of remorse. An essential resource for practitioners, the collection enriches law and emotion scholarship." Sharyn Roach Anleu, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Flinders University, Australia Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Judging RemorseChapter 1: Remorse and JudgingChapter 2: Remorse and Sentencing in a World of Plea BargainingChapter 3: Temporary Irresponsibility, Foolish Mistakes, and Outright Villains: Narratives of Remorse in Sexual Assault TrialsChapter 4: Reflections on the Grey Zone: ‘Sort of Remorseful’ OffendersChapter 5: Cranking the Sausage Machine: A Magistrate’s Perspective on Remorse AssessmentPart II: Remorse Beyond the CourtroomChapter 6: Remorse, Probation and the StateChapter 7: Long Haul Remorse: The Continuous Performance of Repentance Throughout Prison SentencesChapter 8: Perceptions of Remorse in Forensic PatientsChapter 9: Remorse on Death RowPart III: Remorse, War and Social TraumaChapter 10: Remorse in International Criminal Justice: Sentencing, Offender Rehabilitation and Reintegration: A Case Study of the International Tribunal for the Former YugoslaviaChapter 11: Remorse as Ethical Encounter and the Impossibility of RepairPart IV: ReflectionsChapter 12: Reflections on Researching Remorse: Unearthing an Epistemological Unconscious
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethical Musicality
Book SynopsisEthical Musicality addresses the crossroads between music and ethics, combining philosophical knowledge, theoretical reflection, and practical understanding. When tied together, music and ethics link profoundly, offering real-life perspectives that would otherwise be inaccessible to us. The first part elucidates music and ethics through some influential and selected scholars ranging from Antiquity via modern philosophy to contemporary voices. In the second part, different roles and arenas are illustrated and explored through various music practices in real-life encounters for the musician, the music educator, the music therapist, the musicologist, the lay' musician, and the music researcher. The third part unfolds an ethical musicality focusing on the body, relationship, time, and space. Following these fundamental existentials, ethical musicality expands our lifeworld, including context, involvement, power, responsibility, sustainability, and hope. Such an ethical musTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Ethics as a discipline: a music-philosophical discourse; 2 Ethics as a practice: music in real-life encounters; 3 Reflexivity: music and ethics; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy through the lens of European values, cosmopolitan norms and universal human rights, the contributions expose the weaknesses and limitations of existing regulations and make proposals on how to improve them.The EU is often seen as a cosmopolitan project. Europe is supposed to be a community of states that aspires to be guided by cosmopolitan norms. However, the idea of a cosmopolitan Europe has never been unanimously shared, and in recent years, it has come under increasing scrutiny, particularly with regard to the EU's refugee policy. The guiding idea of this book is that a deeper philosophical understanding of the normative issues at stake can foster greater conceptual clarity and enrich political debates on the future of European refugee policy. The first pTable of ContentsIntroduction Marie Göbel & Andreas Niederberger Part 1: The European ‘Refugee Crisis’: A Crisis of What? 1. Europe’s Migration Policy between a Global and Local Legitimation Crisis Andreas Niederberger 2. The European ‘Refugee Crisis’ as a Crisis of European Cosmopolitanism: EU Refugee Policy and Non-Members’ Normative Powers Therese Herrmann 3. The ‘Refugee Crisis’: A Crisis of the European Asylum System Matthias Hoesch Part 2: Making Sense of ‘European Values’ 4. What Are European Values? Philosophical Reflections on an Opaque Political Concept Marie Göbel 5. Values, Goals, Norms: Some Remarks on Their Relationship Philipp Schink 6. References to European Values in the Political Sphere: Functions, Limits and Possibilities Regina Polak Part 3: Normative Consequences of European Values 7. Human Dignity and the EU’s Moral Obligations toward Non-Europeans Marcus Düwell 8. Human Rights and the EU’s Responsibilities toward Refugees Jos Philips 9. EU Refugee Policy: Cosmopolitan and/or Democratic? Martin Deleixhe 10. The Future of Europe’s Refugee Policy: Normative Conclusions and Recommendations Marie Göbel & Andreas Niederberger
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Agribusiness
Book SynopsisThis book offers an original perspective on food supply chains. It argues that the ability to trade food on a global scale could be intrinsically good aside from any instrumental value that people gain from it.While the author's argument seems to counter wholesale anti-agribusiness views, it is consistent with the larger goals of food-justice movements. The author examines the structures of food supply chains, revealing the kinds of harm they help produce. They include slavery, abusive labor, geopolitical exploitation, ecological degradation, and public health impacts. Although the book argues that food supply chains can be collectively beneficial, eliminating their immoral features must hold steady as a continuous enterprise. Securing this outcome means that we go beyond critique. The final chapter advocates for the sustainable food label to address issues of food justice and food sovereignty.The Ethics of Agribusiness will interest researchers and Table of ContentsPreface1. The First Link: Introduction, Methodology, and Overview2. Food Problems3. Food Chains and Applied Mereology4. Globalized Opacity5. Agribusiness Technology6. Moral Ordering for Agribusiness7. The Intrinsic Value of Food Chains8. ConclusionEpilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bioethics
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to introduce and discuss bioethics in a three-synergistic way: from the foundations to the current debates in relation to healthcare and social bioethics, and thereafter the possible future challenges. In this sense, the target audience can be from diverse disciplines: life and medical sciences, law, philosophy, psychology, and education. The book will be useful to high school students, in their first contacts with bioethics, college students, teachers and researchers, and the general public interested in these controversial debates of the past, present and future of bioethics.Table of ContentsTHE BIOETHICAL PRINCIPLES: STATE OF ART. Towards a Definition of Bioethics as a Discipline. History of Bioethics. The Principlist Approach in Bioethics. APPLIED BIOETHICS. Bioethics in Biomedical Research. Unresolved Problems in Bioethics: The Beginning and End of Life. Ethics of Health Care Allocation of Resources. The Case of Organ Transplantation. Social Bioethics. FUTURE CHALLENGES. Challenges in Biomedical Areas. Roles and Challenges for Clinical Ethics Committees and Clinical Ethics Consultation Systems. Critical Bioethical Approach to Health Crisis Scenarios. The Challenge of Teaching Bioethics.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethics Practical Reasoning Agency
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume devoted exclusively to the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. It features original essays by leading Sellars scholars that examine his ethical theory, his theory of practical reasoning, and his theory of intentional agency.While most scholarship on Sellars's philosophy has focused on his epistemology, metaphysics, or philosophy of language and mind, Sellars himself regarded his practical philosophy as central to his overall project of situating rational beings within the natural order. The chapters in this volume address this neglected area of Sellars's philosophy. The chapters are divided into thematic sections covering Sellars's theory of we-intentions influential in contemporary debates on collective intentionality naturalism and the manifest image, and the moral point of view. Together, they demonstrate how Sellars's practical philosophy contributes to important debates in contemporary philosophy regarding, for example, expressivist approaTrade Review"This is an exciting new volume on Wilfrid Sellars’s practical philosophy. Koons and Loeffler have done an excellent job assembling a prominent group of scholars to shed light on this under-discussed area of Sellars’s philosophy. Anyone interested in Sellars, ethics, or practical reasoning will be well-served by exploring this volume."Peter Olen, Lake-Sumter State College, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Randel Koons and Ronald Loeffler Part 1: Understanding Sellarsian We-intentions 1. Sellars on the Intersubjectivity of We-Intentions Stefanie Dach 2. We-Intentions and How One Reports Them Kyle Ferguson 3. Moral We-Intentions as Individualistic We-Attitudes Ronald Loeffler 4. Cracks in the Foundation: An Anscombean Critique of Sellars’s Practical Philosophy Heath White Part 2: Naturalism and the Manifest Image: Extensions and Critical Engagements 5. Persons and Their Categories Willem A. Devries 6. ‘Causal Reducibility’ and Naturalism in Sellars’s Conception of the Moral ‘Ought’ James R. O’shea 7. Norm, Nature, and Narrative: Stereoscopic Vision in Sellars and Danielle Macbeth Zachary Gabor 8. Practical Cognition, Motor Intentionality, and the Idea of the Good: Considerations of Denotational and Connotational Meaning Preston Stovall Part 3: The Moral Point of View and the Kingdom of Ends 9. The Community of Rational Beings Nicholas Tebben 10. Morality, Tribalism, and Value Danielle Macbeth 11. Sellars on External Reasons Jeremy Randel Koons. Index
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Routledge Critical Realism and the Objective Value of
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Consent
Book SynopsisThis book considers the concept of consent in different contexts with the aim of exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different situations. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social attempts to explain its meaning often centre on overly simplistic, narrow and binary definitions, viewing consent as something that occurs at a specific point in time.This book examines the nuances of consent and how it is enacted and re-enacted in different settings (including online spaces) and across time. Consent is most often connected to the idea of sexual assault and is often viewed as a straight-forward concept and one that can be easily explained. Yet there is confusion among the public, as well as among academics and professionals as to what consent truly is and even the degree to which individuals conceptualise and act on their own ideas about consent within their own lives.Topics covered include: consent in dTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Cultural Representations of Consent; 1. The Whiteness of Consent; 2. Literatures of Consent; 3. SM, the law & an opaque sexual consent narrative; 4. What’s in a Name (or Even Pronoun)?; Part II: Shifting Meanings of Consent; 5. “What do I Call This?”: The Role of Consent in LGBTQA+ Sexual Practices and Victimization Experiences; 6. How Drunk is “Too Drunk” to Consent? A Summary of Research on Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Consent; 7. Two Wrongs Make it Right: Perceptions of Intoxicated Consent; 8. An Approach to Developing Shared Understandings of Consent with Young People; Part III: Women's Bodies and the Narrative of Consent; 9. The Right to Withdraw Consent to Continuing an Unwanted Pregnancy; 10. Unlearning Agreement: Imagining the Law without Consent; 11. Consent work: Facilitating Informed Consent in Labour and Childbirth; 12. Consent and Work: A Postfeminist Analysis of Women’s Acquiescence to long working hours; Part IV: Consent in a Digital World; 13. Consent isn’t just a girl’s thing: consent and image based sexual abuse; 14. Negotiating consent in online kinky spaces; 15. Molka: Consent, Resistance, and the Spy-Cam Epidemic in South Korea; 16. Negotiating power, pleasure and agency in online sex work: Unpacking what “consent” means in the context of “camming”; Part V: Legal and Political Representations of Consent; 17. Sex games gone wrong: Consent in the Courts; 18. The mediation of school-based consent education debates in Australia; 19. Sex work politics and consent: The consequences of sexual morality; 20. Victim and Perpetrator: reflecting upon sexual consent, autism and/or learning difficulties; 21. Whose Consent?: Donor Conception, Anonymity and Rights
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral
Book SynopsisA Psychological Perspective on Folk Moral Objectivism is a thoroughly researched interdisciplinary exploration of the critical role metaethical beliefs play in the way morality functions.Whether people are moral objectivists or not is something that deserves much more empirical attention than it has thus far received, not only because it bears upon philosophical claims but also because it is a critical piece of the puzzle of human morality. This book aims to facilitate incorporating the study of metaethical beliefs into existing research programs by providing a roadmap through the theoretical and empirical landscape as it currently exists and evaluating the methodological approaches used thus far. In doing so, it summarizes the key findingsboth in terms of metaethical beliefs and their correlates, causes, and consequencesthat have emerged, and explores the value of this area of study for anyone interested in the development, function, causes, and/or consequences of mTable of ContentsPart I: Studying Metaethical Objectivism—Why, What, and How?1. Introduction 2. Setting the Stage Part II: Methodological Strategies and Challenges—A Review 3. Is it Moral? Measuring Domain Classification 4. Is it Truth-Apt? Measuring Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism 5. Is it Objectively True? Measuring Objectivism Vs. Subjectivism 6. Is it Universally True? Measuring Universalism vs. Relativism Part III: Are the Folk Moral Objectivists? What We Know and Why it Matters 7. Variability in Metaethical Beliefs—Metaethical Pluralism? 8. Correlates, Causes, and Consequences 9. Broader Implications
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Philosophy of Outer Space
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a rigorous philosophical investigation of the rationales, challenges, and promises of the coming Space Age.Over the past decade, space exploration has made significant and accelerating progress, and its potential has attracted growing attention from science, states, businesses, innovators, as well as the media and society more generally. Yet philosophical theorizing concerning the premises, values, meanings, and impacts of space exploration is still in its infancy, and this potentially immense field of study is far from mainstream yet. This book advances outer space philosophy by integrating key scientific and societal debates sparked by recent developments in space research and activities with conceptual, existential, ethical, aesthetic, and political themes and concerns. It maps various regions of philosophical exploration, reflection, and speculation regarding humanity's present and future emanations into outer space, to promote a broad, rich, and nuan
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Taylor & Francis Education for Sustainable Development in the
Book SynopsisThe book seeks to explore ways in which education research, policy and practice ought to be re-thought and re-enacted under present bio-political predicaments. It brings together scholars working in the intersections of education for sustainable development, philosophy of education and curriculum theory who contribute original and radical analyses of education in an increasingly unpredictable and unintelligible world.According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), humanity is closer to irreversible tipping points that, once reached will lead to accelerating transformations that will drastically change life on earth during the coming decades. Responses from education studies to these precarious social-ecological conditions range from pointing out necessary ways forward for education grounded in human accountability, responsibility, justice, ethics, and care; to dark ecology-oriented interventions unnerving the very premises that education relies on. When eduTable of ContentsIntroduction: Education for sustainable development in the ‘Capitalocene’ 1. Strange loops, oedipal logic, and an apophatic ecology: Reimagining critique in environmental education 2. The Holocene Simulacrum 3. Education after the end of the world. How can education be viewed as a hyperobject? 4. Catastrophe or apocalypse? The anthropocenologist as pedagogue 5. From “education for sustainable development” to “education for the end of the world as we know it” 6. Spiritual education for a post-capitalist society 7. Ilyenkov’s ideal: Can we bank on it? 8. Education, sustainable or otherwise, as simulacra: A symphony of Baudrillard
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Taylor & Francis Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us.There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our specific moral obligations to a smaller subset of people: our family, our nation, and our friends. There has been longstanding tension between the moral intuition that equality entails that we have the same moral duties to everyone and the moral intuition that special obligations entail that we have much greater duties to those close to us. The chapters in this volume discuss varying perspectives on partiality within a wide range of relationships. Section 1 offers overarching visions of partiality. Section 2 examines how roles and relationships might shape partiality. Section 3 focuses on the potential moral dangers and pitfalls of partiality. Finally, Section 4 looks at specific applicatTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Overarching Visions of Partiality 1. Morality’s Partiality: An Essay in Virtue-Based, Role-Relative, Patient-Focused Moral Theory J. L. A. Garcia 2. Parity, Pluralism, and Permissible Partiality Chris Tucker 3. Is Partiality Part of Morality? Alan H. Goldman 4. Attitudes of The Will and Attitudes of The Heart Stephen Darwall Section 2: How Roles and Relationships Might Shape Partiality 5. Why Partial Relationships are Necessary: A Model for Virtuous and Loving Unequal Relationships Eric J. Silverman 6. Role Centered Morality and Virtuous and Vicious Partiality Michael Beaty Section 3: The Moral Dangers of Partiality 7. Partiality Traps and our Need for Risk-Aware Ethics and Epistemology Guy Axtell 8. Smugness as a Kantian Vice Karen Stohr 9. Loyalty and Epistemic Partiality Kathryn C. S. Schmidt Section 4: Specific Applications of Partiality: Loyalty to Country, Religion, Sports Team, and Employer 10. Anti-Patriotism’s Unintended Reformation: The Mistakes of George Kateb’s Patriotism and Other Mistakes Joseph Prud’homme 11. Faithfulness and Religious Partiality Patrick X. Gardner 12. Practices of Partiality: Affinity, Loyalty, and Sports Fans Kyle Fruh, Marcus Hedahl, Luke Maring, and Nate Olson 13. Partiality We Owe Our Employers Chris Tweedt
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CRC Press Transition to Digital Ethics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Case Study for Computer Ethics in Context
Book SynopsisAimed at addressing the difficulties associated with teaching often abstract elements of technical ethics, this book is an extended fictional case study into the complexities of technology and social structures in complex organizations. Within this case study, an accidental discovery reveals that the algorithms of Professor John Blackbriar are not quite what they were purported to be. Over the course of 14 newspaper articles, a nebula of professional malpractice and ethical compromise is revealed, ultimately destroying the career of a prominent, successful academic.The case study touches on many topics relevant to ethics and professional conduct in computer science, and on the social structures within which computer science functions. Themes range from the growing influence of generative AI to the difficulties in explaining complex technical processes to a general audience, also touching on the environmental consequences of blockchain technology and the disproportionate gende
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Taylor & Francis From Socrates to the Supreme Court
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophies of Catholic Education
Book SynopsisThis seminal volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to presenting an authoritative account of contemporary philosophies of Catholic education, intersecting the substantive boundaries of education, religious studies, philosophy, and theology to ultimately re-examine these philosophies and reinvigorate the authentic aspects of the Catholic educational endeavour.Against the backdrop of an increasingly volatile debate between liberal and conservative values within Catholic educational and theological settings, chapters provide a thorough and judicious blending of historical accuracy with contemporary urgency. Combining a diversity of knowledge and historical account including discussion on Thomism, Christian existentialism, and ideologically oppositional philosophies the book argues that philosophies of Catholic education are in a new process of evolution necessary in order to justify the aims and priorities of Catholic education.This book will be of value to academi
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