Ethics and moral philosophy Books

Book SynopsisThis volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthetic dimensions of human becoming. Interest in metaxological philosophy has been on the rise in recent years, and this volume provides both a practical introduction and thorough engagements with it by experts in the field. The volume concludes with a series of responses by William Desmond on the issues raised by the contributors.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Being, Knowing, and Intimacy 2. Number and the Between, by John Milbank 3. True Being and Being True: Metaxology and the Retrieval of Metaphysics, by D.C. Schindler 4. Hermeneutical Selving as Metaxological Selving: Bridging the Perceived Gap between Theological Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, by Daniel Minch 5. Metaxology and New Realist Philosophy, by Sandra Lehmann Part 2: Absolute Being and Talking God 6. The Metaxology of the Divine Names, by Brendan Thomas Sammon 7. Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between, by Mark F. Novak 8. Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological, by Patrick Ryan Cooper Part 3: Autonomy, Porosity, and Goodness 9. Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought, by Cyril O’Regan 10. Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being, by Roberto Dell’Oro 11. Silence, Excess, and Autonomy, by Dennis Vanden Auweele 12. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of its Eclipse: William Desmond contra Giorgio Agamben, by Philip Gonzales Part 4: On Wholeness, Hegel and Pan(en)theism 13. The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God, by Sander Griffioen 14. Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology, by Josephien van Kessel 15. Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies, by Philip A. Gottschalk Part 5: Creation, Embodied Being and Beauty 16. The Gift of Creation, by Richard Kearney 17. On Speaking the Amen: Augustinian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Metaxu, by Renée Kohler-Ryan 18. Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between, by Alexandra Romanyshyn 19. Responding Metaxologically, by William Desmond

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Book SynopsisWhilst he broaches the theme of the difference between the sexes, Hegel does not go deep enough into the question of their mutual desire as a crucial stage in our becoming truly human. He ignores the dialectical process regarding sensitivity and sensuousness. And yet this is needed to make spiritual the relation between two human subjectivities differently determined by nature and to ensure the connection between body and spirit, nature and culture, private life and public life. This leads Hegel to fragment human subjectivity into yearnings for art, religion and philosophy thereby losing the unity attained through the cultivation of a longing for the absolute born of a desire for one another as different.Furthermore, our epoch of history is different from the Hegelian one and demands that we consider additional aspects of human subjectivity. This is essential if we are to overcome the nihilism inherent in our traditional metaphysics without falling into a worse nihilism due to a lack of rigorous thinking common today.The increasing power of technique and technologies as well as the task of building a world culture are two other challenges we face. Our sexuate belonging provides us with a universal living determination of our subjectivity – now a dual subjectivity - and also with a natural energy potential which allows us to use technical resources without becoming dependent on them.Table of Contents1. ​Hypothesis: Longing for another Absolute than Knowledge2. The Desire to Be2.1 Giving Birth to our To Be2.2 Dwelling place opened by desire2.3 The gift of nothing2.4 Assuming non-being2.5 Sexuation as first logos2.6 Infinity arising from finiteness3. Elements of a Dialectics of Sensitivity3.1What mood allows meeting together?3.2Energy as sensitive mediation3.3 About universality of sensitive experience3.4 Here and now in intersubjective relations3.5 The qualitative truth of our being3.6 For me for you; for you for me4. The Absolute after which Desire Aspires4.1 Towards a non-pathological pathos4.2 From subordination to conjunction4.3 Self-affection and self-consciousness4.4 An absolute rooted in nature4.5 Light for which sensitivity longs4.6 Desire as transcendental intuition5. Sketch of a Logic of Intersubjectivity5.1 From subject-object adequacy to subject-subject connection5.2 Nature and freedom5.3 Crucial stage of the relation between two5.4 Sharing the fire5.5 Leading part of touch in fleshly dynamism5.6 Lost of differentiation due to sight5.7 Living individuation shaped by mutual desire6. Provisory Synthesis: Difference Can Overcome Contradiction

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Book SynopsisIn this book, the author examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence systems as they integrate and replace traditional social structures in new sociocognitive-technological environments. She discusses issues related to the integrity of researchers, technologists, and manufacturers as they design, construct, use, and manage artificially intelligent systems; formalisms for reasoning about moral decisions as part of the behavior of artificial autonomous systems such as agents and robots; and design methodologies for social agents based on societal, moral, and legal values. Throughout the book the author discusses related work, conscious of both classical, philosophical treatments of ethical issues and the implications in modern, algorithmic systems, and she combines regular references and footnotes with suggestions for further reading. This short overview is suitable for undergraduate students, in both technical and non-technical courses, and for interested and concerned researchers, practitioners, and citizens. Trade Review“The book claims to be suitable for undergraduate students, and interested and concerned researchers, practitioners, and citizens. It will serve these audiences well but would be of equal benefit and importance to policymakers and those making decisions about adopting AI technology who might otherwise be focused on a narrower functional perspective. … Highly recommended for all.” (Nicolas E. Gold, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 22, 2021)“Responsible Artificial Intelligence is a valuable contribution to the debate about AI … at the level of building principled, responsible AI systems, and the use of these systems. The further reading which the book suggests complements this technical monograph with accessible contributions about the nature and future of AI. … If you want to know how a vision for responsible AI systems in the European fashion can be built from values, read this book.” (Neil Yorke-Smith, Prometheus, September, 2020)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- What Is Artificial Intelligence?.- Ethical Decision-Making.- Taking Responsibility.- Can AI Systems Be Ethical?.- Ensuring Responsible AI in Practice.- Looking Further.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the often tough questions raised by infectious diseases through essays that explore a host of legal and ethical issues. The authors also offer potential solutions in order to ensure that past errors are not repeated in response to future outbreaks. The essays touch on a number of key themes, including institutional competence, the accountability and responsibility of non-state actors, the importance of pharmaceuticals, and the move towards a rights-based approach in global health.Readers gain insights into such important questions as follows: How can we help victims in other countries? What (if any) responsibility should be placed upon international organizations whose actions exacerbate infectious diseases? How can we ensure that pharmaceutical research helps all communities, even those who cannot afford to pay for the products? While broadly covering global health law, the book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach that draws on public international law, philosophy, international relations, human rights law, and healthcare economics. As such, it is a valuable resource for academic libraries, appealing to scholars and postgraduates engaged in relevant research, as well as to those engaged with global health and policy at the international level.Table of ContentsThe International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement response to Ebola 2014-2016.- Responding to health emergencies: the ethical and legal considerations for militaries.- The World Health Organization and NGOs in the context of public health emergencies: Complementation, juxtaposition or supplantation?.- The Law of Responsibility and the World Health Organization: a Case Study on the West African Ebola Outbreak.- Lessons from the Past: Cholera, Scientific Knowledge, and the Longest-Standing Principle of International Health Law.- Ebola as a threat to international peace and security: the response of the UN Security Council.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities disciplines. As a contribution to applied research ethics, this practical guide offers a typology of the principal forms of disguised plagiarism. It provides detailed analyses, in-depth case studies, and useful flow charts to assist researchers, editors, and publishers in protecting the integrity of the body of published research literature. Disguised plagiarism is more subtle than copy-and-paste plagiarism; all its varieties involve some additional concealment that creates further distance between the plagiarizing text and its source. These disguised forms are the most difficult forms of plagiarism to detect. Readers of the volume will become acquainted with the subtler forms of plagiarism that corrupt the production and dissemination of knowledge in humanities fields. The book is valuable not only to those interested in research ethics, but also to those in humanities fields including philosophy, theology, and history.Table of ContentsCh.1 Introduction.-Ch.2 Compression Plagiarism.-Ch.3 Translation Plagiarism.- Ch.4 Dispersal Plagiarism.-Ch.5 Magisterial Plagiarism.-Ch.6 Exposition Plagiarism.-Ch.7 Template Plagiarism.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the efficacy of the common regulatory model of the licensing regime as a means of regulating animal use in England, with a particular focus on wild animals and the regime’s ability to ensure animal welfare needs are met. Using information gleaned from over 550 inspection reports relating to the period 2008 through 2019, obtained using FOI Act requests, the book analyses the extent to which animals used by these industries are protected by law. Tyson analyses the limitations present in the practical application of English legislation responsible for creating a number of relevant licensing regimes.The regimes discussed include: The Zoo Licensing Act 1981, the now repealed Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses Regulations 2012, and the Animal Welfare (Licensing of Activities Involving Animals) Regulations 2018, introduced under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.Exploring the weakness in the use of this type of regulatory model, Tyson proposes compelling recommendations for change in future policy development. Making an important contribution to the question of enforcement of animal welfare laws, this book provides useful and original insights into the implementation of licensing regimes, and will be of particular interest to scholars of animal welfare law, animal ethics, and critical animal studies.Trade ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction.2. Should Animals Use Be Regulated by Law And, If So, How?.3. How Is Animal Use Regulated and How Does This Protect Them?.4. Regulatory Licensing Regimes as a Legislative Framework.5. Primary Licensing Legislation: The Regulation of Zoos.6. Enforcing the Zoo Licensing Act 1981.7. International Perspectives: Snapshots of Zoos from Other Jurisdictions.8. Secondary Licensing Legislation: The Regulation of the Use of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses in England.9. Enforcing the Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012.10. New Directions in Licensing: The Animal Welfare (Licensing of Actives Involving Animals) (England) Regulations 2018.11. Is Licensing an Effective Means to Regulate the Use of Animals?.12. Making Licensing Work for Animals Recommendations for Change.13. Conclusion: Towards Transparency and Universal Standards for Animal Welfare.

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of essays from leaders in various fields addressing the current and future challenges arising from the implementation of AI in brain and mental health. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform health care and improve biomedical research. While the potential of AI in brain and mental health is tremendous, its ethical, regulatory and social impacts have not been assessed in a comprehensive and systemic way. The volume is structured according to three main sections, each of them focusing on different types of AI technologies. Part 1, Big Data and Automated Learning: Scientific and Ethical Considerations, specifically addresses issues arising from the use of AI software, especially machine learning, in the clinical context or for therapeutic applications. Part 2, AI for Digital Mental Health and Assistive Robotics: Philosophical and Regulatory Challenges, examines philosophical, ethical and regulatory issues arising from the use of an array of technologies beyond the clinical context. In the final section of the volume, Part 3 entitled AI in Neuroscience and Neurotechnology: Ethical, Social and Policy Issues, contributions examine some of the implications of AI in neuroscience and neurotechnology and the regulatory gaps or ambiguities that could potentially hamper the responsible development and implementation of AI solutions in brain and mental health. In light of its comprehensiveness and multi-disciplinary character, this book marks an important milestone in the public understanding of the ethics of AI in brain and mental health and provides a useful resource for any future investigation in this crucial and rapidly evolving area of AI application. The book is of interest to a wide audience in neuroethics, robotics, computer science, neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part I Scientific Considerations and Challenges: AI-augmented neuroimaging.- AI analytics in brain cancer screening.- AI analytics to detect pre-symptomatic dementia.- AI analytics in schizophrenia.- Wearables, mHealth and mental health monitoring.- Prevention of mental disorders through social media.- The brain health modeling initiative and the promise of AI.- Assistive robotics for dementia and mild cognitive impairment.- Telehealth and robotherapy in psychiatry.- Robot-assisted neurorehabilitation.- Brain-computer interfaces and AI-mediated neuromodulation.- Part III . Ethical Legal and Social Implications: Mental Privacy.- Algorithmic transparency – Measurement bias and ethical bias.- Discrimination and stigma.- Informed Consent.- Minimal risk.- Fairness and Research Allocation.- The black-box problem of medical AI.- The transformation of therapeutic relationships.- The role of IRBs.- The ethics of automated medical decision-making.- Accountability and Responsibility.- Designing moral technologies for brain and mental health.- AI and Human Beings: Philosophical and Ethical Perspectives.- Part III Policy Perspectives: Current regulatory frameworks in North America.- Gaps in existing regulations.- Policy and law of AI in China.- Deontology and best practices.- Regulation of AI industry.- AI in the developing world: a global justice perspective.- Regulation of AI in Europe.- Conclusion - Towards an ethical framework for AI in brain and mental health.

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Book SynopsisWhat is a right? What, if anything, makes rights different from other features of the normative world, such as duties, standards, rules, or principles? Do all rights serve some ultimate purpose? In addition to raising these questions, philosophers and jurists have long been aware that different senses of ‘a right’ abound. To help make sense of this diversity, and to address the above questions, they developed two types of accounts of rights: models and theories. This book explicates rights modelling and theorising and scrutinises their methodological underpinnings. It then challenges this framework by showing why the theories ought to be abandoned. In addition to exploring structural concerns, the book also addresses the various ways that rights can be used. It clarifies important differences between rights exercise, enforcement, remedying, and vindication, and identifies forms of legal rights-claiming and rights-invoking outside of institutional contexts.Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Rights ModellingChapters 3: Rights CorrelativityChapter 4: Rights Exercise and EnforcementChapter 5: The Theories of Rights DebateChapter 6: The Case Against the TheoriesChapter 7: Legal Rights EnforcementChapter 8: Imperfect Legal RightsChapter 9: Claims and Invocations of RightChapter 10: The Conceptual Contingency of Perimeters of Support

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphro’s dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right. In Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story, renowned scholar Avi Sagi marshals the breadth of philosophical and hermeneutical tools to examine this relationship in Judaism from two perspectives. The first considers whether Judaism adopted a thesis widespread in other monotheistic religions known as 'divine command morality,' making morality contingent on God’s command. The second deals with the ways Jewish tradition grapples with conflicts between religious and moral obligations. After examining a broad spectrum of Jewish sources—including Talmudic literature, Halakhah, Aggadah, Jewish philosophy, and liturgy—Sagi concludes that mainstream Jewish tradition consistently refrains from attempts to endorse divine command morality or resolve conflicts by invoking a divine command. Rather, the central strand in Judaism perceives God and humans as inhabiting the same moral community and bound by the same moral obligations. When conflicts emerge between moral and religious instructions, Jewish tradition interprets religious norms so that they ultimately pass the moral test. This mainstream voice is anchored in the meaning of Jewish law, which is founded on human autonomy and rationality, and in the relationship with God that is assumed in this tradition. Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I Morality’s Dependence on Religion in Jewish Tradition2. Between the Duty of Obedience and the Thesis of Dependence3. DCM in Rabbinic Literature 4. DCM in Jewish Thought 5. The Autonomous Perspective in Jewish Thought Part II The Autonomous Perspective in Halakhah6. R. Israel Moses Hazan: Particularism and Universalism7. R. Shimon Shkop: Religious Commands and Legal Obligations8. R. Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel: Exclusivity and Moral AutonomyPart III The Conflict Between Morality and Religion9. “You Are Called Men”: Between Jew and Gentile10. “He Slew the Egyptian”: On Moses’ Act and Morality 11. “Her Ways Are Ways of Pleasantness”: Uprooting a Torah Law 12. The Akedah in Jewish TraditionPart IV Theoretical Foundations13. Halakhah and the Dependence Thesis 14. Concluding Reflections

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an international collection of experts in reproductive ethics, law, disability studies, and medicine to explore the challenging future of reproduction and children. From the medical to the social and from the financial to the legal, the authors explore the expanding impact of reproductive genetics on our society. New advances in genetic technologies are revolutionizing the practice of reproductive medicine. We have expanded our ability to detect genetic changes in embryos and fetuses in ways that potentially allow to identify, treat, or prevent a growing range of diseases. The development of gene-editing technologies raises questions about the possibility of removing disease-causing variants from embryos before pregnancy implantation. The growing sophistication of prenatal genomic sequencing offers us glimpses into the whole genome of the developing fetus. And, the increasingly sophisticated science of 'gene matching' allows us greater and greater foreknowledge of how the genomes of two individuals will combine in a future child. This is an indispensable book on the newest developments in bioethics caused by the sciences.Chapter 5 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsPart 1: Clinical Background.- Chapter 1. Women, Children, Families and the Translation of Genomics in Reproductive Medicine (Ruth M. Farrell).- Chapter 2. Practicing Prenatal Medicine in a Genomic Future: How the Practice of Pediatrics May (or may not) Change with the Introduction of Widespread Prenatal Sequencing (Volkan Okur).- Part 2: Voices of Disability.- Chapter 3. Eugenics or Not, Prenatal Genetic Testing’s Common Issues Need to be Addressed (Mark W. Leach).- Chapter 4. The Impact of Prenatal Screening on Disability Communities and the Meaning of Disability (Louise Bryant).- Chapter 5. An Expressivist Disability Critique of the Expansion of Prenatal Genomics (Chris Kaposy).- Part 3: Voices of Social Sciences and the Humanities.- Chapter 6. The Hypothetical Healthy Newborn (Rosemarie Garland-Thomson).- Chapter 7. The Good and the Goal of Pre-conception and Pre-natal Genetic Testing from a Catholic Perspective (Kevin Fitzgerald).- Chapter 8. Pathways to Affluence: Socioeconomic Incentives in Prenatal Testing and Abortion (Marsha Michie).- Part 4: The Future?.- Chapter 9. An Intelligent Parents Guide to Prenatal Testing: Having a Well-Born Child without Genomic Selection 3rd Edition, 2024 (David Wasserman).

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth analysis of different dimensions of contemporary food charity. It does so against the background of an increasing number of food banks and other forms of food philanthropy. The book examines the incongruity of considering food donation as an expression of 'pure altruism'. Taking into account the dignity and rights of people, it addresses how hunger is seen and explained in rich countries and how philanthropy and democracy coexist. It looks at the relationship that exists between religious traditions and the current food donation narrative. It discusses the risks of stigmatizing food recipients, and clarifies ways to better deal with food poverty and food waste. Paradoxically, food insecurity and food waste have grown exponentially in the last decade. More and more people are not able to access food properly. The amount of perfectly edible food that is discarded also grows. The consolidation of democracies, welfare policies, and economic growth do not guarantee that all citizens can meet their basic needs in the so-called rich countries. This book analyses the current state of affairs and presents facts and reflections from diverse sources and from a cross-disciplinary perspective.Table of Contents1. Old and New Dilemmas around Charitable food. Promoting reflection on (some) policies and practices.- 2. When opulence can no longer hide hunger: International politics, welfare policies and the need to take action.- 3. Ethical debates on global hunger: moral obligations to the distant other and global justice.- 4. Food sharing and altruism: reconstructing the behavioural evolution.- 5. The right to food and the essential promotion of personal autonomy: the ‘how’ matters.- 6. Food sharing in religious and indigenous traditions: Drawing inspirations for contemporary food ethics and politics.- 7. Criminalising the poverty: stigma of the social inequalities within the constitutional framework of the workfare state of the Union.- 8. Other ways of eating in spain: Food itineraries in a context of increasing precarization.- 9. Clash between some kinds of charitable food and the human right to food.- 10. The Corporatization of Food Charity in Canada: Implications for Domestic Hunger, Poverty Reduction and Public Policy.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction. - Chapter I. Principles of Afro-communitarianism and permissible violence.- Chapter II. Rwanda, the United Nations and intervention.- Chapter III. The United Nations and Britain in Sierra Leone.- Chapter IV. The Afghan invasion and fight against terrorism.- Chapter V. United States and allied unilateral intervention in Iraq.- Chapter VI. African-led military interventions.- Chapter VII. Implications of non-interventions in Nigeria, the Niger Delta and Syria.- Chapter VIII. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction to Ethics.- Chapter 2. Ethical Theories.- Chapter 3. Applied Ethics.- Chapter 4. Why Be Moral?.- Chapter 5. Remarks on the Origins of Justice.- Chapter 6. Justice or Equality?.- Chapter 7. On Human Rights.- Chapter 8. Free Will and Moral Responsibility.- Chapter 9. Philosophy Toolbox. 

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. A rights-based theory for health justice (José-Antonio Seoane).- Chapter 2. On the possibility of a bioethics based on fundamental rights (Tomás de Domingo Pérez).- Chapter 3. Social determinants of health and the indivisibility of social justice (Encarnación Fernández-Ruiz-Gálvez).- Chapter 4. Vulnerability: at the Source of Biolaw (Claudio Sartea).- Chapter 5. The Issue of Bodily Rights Alienation (Noelia Martínez-Doallo).- Chapter 6. Rethinking with Onora ONeill the Kantian Concept of Autonomy in Biolaw (María Jesús Vázquez Lobeiras).- Chapter 7. Autonomy and Advance Care Planning in Liquid Times of Brain Activity: The Sound of Silence (Joaquim Gomes).- Chapter 8. Artificial Intelligence and Neurorights: Lessons learned for a Future Global Regulation (Daniel García San José).- Chapter 9. Protecting My Mind. Cognitive Liberty, Commons and Neurorights (Paolo Sommaggio).- Chapter 10. From therapy to enhancement: ethical and legal issues about neurotechnologies in the EU framework of human rights (Silvia Salardi).- Chapter 11. Gestational Surrogacy, Private Life and the European Court of Human Rights Case Law (Alfonso Ballesteros).- Chapter 12. Gestational surrogacy as a new right. a narrative approach (Oscar Vergara).- Chapter 13. Ritual Circumcisions of Minors: Civil and Criminal Perspectives in Spanish Law (Agustín Motilla).- Chapter 14. Broadening conscience: Altruism, Civil disobedience, or (positive) conscientious objection against migrant healthcare exclusion? (Rosana Triviño Caballero).- Chapter 15. Cross-border healthcare: the Spanish implementation of the Directive 2011/24/UE (Ana María Marcos del Cano).- Chapter 16. Comparative review of national regulatory frameworks in the context of secondary use of data for research across Europe (Olga Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou).- Chapter 17. Privacy, Big Data and eHealth profiling in European Law: Rights & Wrongs (Leonor Teixeira).- Chapter 18. Euthanasia and assisted suicide: The public provision of death as a new bio-right? (Carolina Pereira-Sáez).- Chapter 19. Biorights at the end of life. Achievements and open questions in the Italian context (Patrizia Borsellino).

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- What is autonomy?.- Autonomy in moral philosophy.- Professional autonomy.- Relational, not individualistic.-Nursing Autonomy-The Individual And The Collective.- Case studies: nursing, midwifery, social work, the paramedic profession and psychology.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Historical and Regulatory Background.- Chapter 3. Moral Theory.- Chapter 4. The Trust Approach to Research with Human Subjects.- Chapter 5. Informed Consent.- Chapter 6. Privacy and Confidentiality.- Chapter 7. Risks and Benefits.- Chapter 8. Vulnerable Subjects.- Chapter 9. Scientific Integrity.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Food security and sustainable. social transformation: the challenges to reach the targets of the Agenda 2030.- Part I: Human rights and social justice perspectives to reach SDG.- 2. Laura E. Pérez Gómez (UNAM) and Ivette M. Pérez Molina. (UNAM) The Right to Food in Latin America, evaluation of policies using human rights indicators and the challenges for SDG #2 achievement.- 3. Olga C. Restrepo Yepes, César A. Molina Saldarriaga, Liliana D. Pabón-Giraldo, Andrés F. Zuluaga-Jaramillo and Jorge I. Marín Tapiero (Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación en América Latina yel Caribe). Validity, compliance and evaluation of the SDG 2. The density of the Right to Food of the Venezuelan migrant population in Colombia.- PART II: Measurements, policies and strategies to achieve food security: what work, what doesn't and why.- 4. Hugo Melgar-Quiñones (McGill University) The multiple faces of food insecurity and hunger.- 5. Carla Arévalo and Jorge Paz (CONICET -Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina) So close to the deadline, so far from the goal: Anatomy of Food Poverty in 10 Latin American Countries.- 6. Martín Maldonado (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) and Hawley C. Almstedt (Loyola Marymount University) From Hunger to Food Security. Ethical, political, and practical implications of SDGsmeasurements.- 7. Ianina Tuñon, (UCA Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina) Children's hunger: the challenges of its eradication in Latin Amerérica.-Part III: the challenge to achieve food security on time. Issues and accountability.- 8. Manuel OTERO (Director General of IICA) Federico Villarreal, Eugenio Díaz[1]Bonilla, Hugo Chavarría, Eduardo Trigo and Jorge Werthein. Facing the Challenge of Food Security on Time: Latin American and Global Perspectives.- 9. Rosana Polastri (IFAD, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean), Ricardo Fort, Alvaro Espinoza and Fiorella Loli. The hidden middle: Distribution bottlenecks and food insecurity in Latin America.- 10.  Lola Castro (WFP, Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean), Raphael Leao and Carlos Mejía. Contributions of inclusive and resilient local food production systems to food security and nutrition in LAC.- 11.  Nancy Aburto , Deputy Director of the Food and Nutrition Division, FAO. Integrated action for climate and nutrition : reaching national goals through one solution to two of our biggest barriers to sustainable development.- 12.  Mario Lubetkin (Director FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean) Strategies and feasible policies to overcome the challenges to achieve food security in Latin America in relation with the global context.- Conclusion 13. Alberto Cimadamore (CONICET-UBA) and Carlos Cherniak (Permanent Representative of Argentina to FAO, IFAD and WFP) Food Security and the SDG2: What should be done from science, politics and international cooperation to reach the commitments?.

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Book SynopsisHumanism, AI, Responsibility, and Virtue.- 21st century Alienation.- From Engineered Humans to Predicted Humans.- Artificial Intelligence, Humanistic Ethics.- Christian Humanism and Technology New Frontiers for Contemplation.- AI and the Virtues in the Workplace.- Algorethics.- On The Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence, Law and Religion.- Anti-Humanism and the Economics of Artificial Intelligence.- Nonhuman Persons.- How Data Governance Can Guardrail Artificial Intelligence.- Dementia Care a Test Case for the Humanity of AI in Health and Nursing Care.- “Ethics of Artificial Intelligence” as a Floating Signifier.- The Business of AI Is the Human Person.

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Book Synopsis1: Introduction.- 2: The Flatness of Existing Formal Accounts.- 3: The Scale of Practical Reasons.- 4: Reason Structuralism.- 5: Double Counting and Aggregation.- 6: Subtraction.- 7: Partial Reasons.- 8: Logics of Reasons: Existing Accounts and Their Problems.- 9: The Logic of Structured Reasons.-10: Applications.- 11: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Preliminaries.- Chapter 2. Arguments for Recreational Drug Use.- Chapter 3. Self-Regarding Consequentialist Arguments against Recreational Drug Use.- Chapter 4. Other-Regarding Consequentialist Arguments against Recreational Drug Use.- Chapter 5. Pleasure-Regarding Nonconsequentialist Arguments against Recreational Drug Use.- Chapter 6. Degradation-Regarding Nonconsequentialist Arguments against Recreational Drug Use.- Chapter 7. Religious Arguments against Recreational Drug Use.

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Book SynopsisPART I.UNDERSTANDING IMAGINATION.- What does imagination stand for.- PART II WHY IMAGINATION.- A Mulitifaceted need.- Innovation - Benefits and Uses.- Imagination's responsibility.- PART III. MAKE IMAGINATION.- Imagination as a technical discipline.- PART IV. LIVING IMAGINATION.- Living the life you have imagined: Thoreau's Lesson.- Imagination as a spiritual exercise.

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Book SynopsisResearch Ethics and Integrity During Pandemics.- Ensuring Effectiveness and Credibility.- Implementation Support for the PREPARED Code.- Learning from the PREPARED Experience.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- 1. Utilitarianism and the Perverse Obligation.- 2. Sex and Social Contracts.- 3. Kant and Neo-Kantian Sexual Ethics. 4. Sex and the Virtues.- 5. Natural Law and Natural Sex.- 6. The Moorean Meta-Argument.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Oruka's Concept Of The Right To A Human Minimum.- Chapter 2. Oruka’s Biographical Background And His Concept Of Sagacity In Practical Philosophy.- Chapter 3. Human Minimum And The Spirit Of Ubuntu.- Chapter 4. Human Minimum And Inequality.- Chapter 5. H. Odera Oruka On Moral Reasoning.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Controversial Issues in Religious Education – powerful knowledge and democratic practices in relation to existential questions and values education.- Chapter 2. Navigating Controversies in Worldview Education: A Non-doxastic Proposal.- Chapter 3. Conceptual strategies for teaching evolutionary theory in worldview education.- Chapter 4.The (controversial) issue of identity and belonging in a post-secular context: a contribution to the discussion of Religious literacy in Religious Education.- Chapter 5. Faith and Science in the Classroom: a Liberal Educational Perspective.- Chapter 6. Democracy’s Risk: Preparing Teachers for Ideological Heterodoxy.- Chapter 7. The Discord between Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Education: Working Towards Harmony.- Chapter 8. Educational environments for the constructive discussion of controversial issues—an examination and evaluation of three conceptual metaphors.- Chapter 9. Fiction-based teaching as a way to teach about controversial issues- Chapter 10. "In the sixth grade it had gone great" - teaching about controversial issues in the middle school.- Chapter 11. Teaching controversial issues in RE through forum theatre Exploring the role of power, empowerment, and emotions.- Chapter 12. Curriculum Changes and Classroom Realities: Examining the Teaching of Sexuality in Swedish Religious Education.

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Book Synopsis1. Editors: ‘Introduction’.- Part One: The Importance and Implications of Context in Ethics.- 2. Nora Hämäläinen: ‘Working Values into Practice and Transforming Them Along the Way: Some Examples from Environmental Ethics’.- 3. Raffaele Rodogno: ’Well-Being, Context, and Normativity’.- 4. Camilla Kronqvist: ‘Listening to Who is Talking: The Speakers as Context’.- 5. Anne-Marie S. Christensen: ‘Thinking About the New. Practical Ethics as Contextual Ethics’.- Part Two: How to do Context? Theories, Methodologies and Fieldtrips.- 6. Duncan Richter: ‘The Ethics of Description’.- 7.  Sverker Finnström: ‘When the World isnot Directly Given to Us: On Death, Murder, and Participant Reflection in a Ugandan Warzone’.- 8. Cecilie Eriksen: ‘Bias, Blind Spots and Cherry-picking. Methodological Challenges in Contextual Ethics’.- 9. Ondrej Beran: ‘The (Im)possibilities of Philosophical Advice’.- 10. Ylva Gustafsson: ‘Reflections on Illness Narratives and the Missing Voices’.- Part Three: Trying it Out – Examples of Contextualised Moral Philosophy.- 11. Hannah Winther: ‘Contextual Animal Ethics’.- 12. Salla Aldrin Salskov: ‘The Queer Ethics of Alison Bechdel’s Are You’re my Mother? and Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself’.- 13. Lisa Aaltola: ‘Universal or Contextual Love?’.- 14. Jonna Bornemark: ‘Asymmetrical Lessons: Pregnancy, Horses and BDSM’.

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Book Synopsis.- Conceptual Disconnect: the prospect of concept-based AI explanations.- Understanding the relationship between fairness and explainability for algorithmic decision-making.- Inductive assumptions in ML always required, often ignored.- Beyond Control: Will to Power in AI, etc.

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Book SynopsisPreface.- Chapter 1. AI Ethics Advisor Office: Scope and Purpose.- Chapter 2. AI Ethics Advisory and Principlism: Bridging Theory and Practice.- Chapter 3. AI Ethics Advisor’s Guide to Trust: Why Perception Matters.- Chapter 4. AI Ethicist in Action: Strategies for Operationalising AI Ethics.- Chapter 5. Preparing Ethics Advisors to AI Governance: Strategies, Regulations, Global Considerations.- Index.

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: The Antichrist and the Revaluation of All Values.- 2. How Has The Antichrist Been Read and Regarded?.- 3. The Antichrist as the Whole Revaluation of All Values or as Its First Volume?.- 4. The Origin and Development of The Antichrist: In Nietzsche’s Workshop.- 5. What Does the Beginning of The Antichrist Say about the Whole Revaluation?.- 6. The Relationship between The Antichrist and Volume 2 of the Revaluation.- 7. The Relationship between The Antichrist and Volume 3 of the Revaluation.- 8. The Relationship between The Antichrist and Volume 4 of the Revaluation.- 9. What Revaluations of Values Do We Encounter in The Antichrist?.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Persons with Diverse Identities.- Chapter 2. The Bioethics of Disability and Some Neglected Goods.- Chapter 3. The Importance of Theological Anthropology for Bioethics in the Key of Disability.- Chapter 4. Accompanying the Transgender Patient in Catholic Health Care: Morally Permissible Interventions.- Chapter 5. Epistemic Humility, Intuitive Cognition, and the Care of Transgender Persons.- Part II: Public and Global Health.- Chapter 6. More than the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Developing a Catholic Public Health Ethic.- Chapter 7. Public Health Care Ethics: Applying Catholic Social Teaching using the G-O-A-LS Method.- Chapter 8. Global Health Ethics.- Chapter 9. Taking Responsibility for Consequences in Faith-Based Global Mission Work: Insights from Modern Catholic Missionaries.- Part III: Pandemic Policies.- Chapter 10. Triage and the Patient-Physician Relationship.- Chapter 11. What Is “Ethics as Usual” Under Crisis Standards of Care?.- Chapter 12. Catholic Vaccine Ethics: Reexamining the Role of Virtues, Moral Principles, and Magisterial Teachings.- Chapter 13. Vaccine Mandates Serve the Common Good.- Part IV: Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 14. Catholic Counsel for the Virtuous Use of AI in Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Health Care.- Chapter 15. Bioethics and Generative AI: A Casuist Approach to Operationalizing Aspirational Insights.

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Book SynopsisLet’s Talk AI: Impressions and Thoughts After 30 Interviews.- Let’s Talk AI with Science Fiction Author Karl von Wendt.- Let’s Talk AI with Business Innovation Expert Ellen Enkel.- Let’s Talk AI with Law Expert Georg Borges.- Let’s Talk AI with Law Expert Andreas Sesing-Wagenpfeil.- Let’s Talk AI with Neuroscience Expert Onur Güntürkün.- Let’s Talk AI with Psychology Expert Nicole Krämer.- Let’s Talk AI with Psychology Expert Markus Langer.- Let’s Talk AI with Philosophy Expert Eva Schmidt.- Let’s Talk AI with Philosophy Expert Thorsten Helfer.- Let’s Talk AI with Philosophy and Computer Science Expert Timo Speith.- Let’s Talk AI with Philosophy and Computer Science Expert Kevin Baum.- Let’s Talk AI with AI Expert José Hernández-Orallo.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Daniel Neider.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Taylor T. Johnson.- Let’s Talk AI with AI Expert Matthias Fey.- Let’s Talk AI with Logician and Computer Science Expert Moshe Y. Vardi.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Edward A. Lee.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Ina Schieferdecker.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Martin Wirsing.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Bernhard Steffen.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Wolfgang Ahrendt.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Holger Hermanns.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Joost-Pieter Katoen.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Tiziana Margaria.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Martin Leucker.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Falk Howar.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Jakob Rehof.- Let’s Talk AI with Computer Science Expert Mike Hinchey.- Let’s Talk AI with ChatGPT.- Let’s Talk AI with Pi.- How Hot Is the Water.

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Book SynopsisThe Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) presents outstanding monographic interpretations by scholars, active in various academic fields, of Nietzsche’s work as a whole or of specific themes and aspects. These works are written mostly from a philosophical, literary, communication science, sociological or historical perspective. The publications reflect the current state of research on Nietzsche’s philosophy, on his sources, on his relationship with his predecessors and contemporaries and on the influence of his writings. The volumes are peer-reviewed.

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Book SynopsisDer Widerspruch, den Kant in der Kritik der praktischen Vernunft unter den Titeln "Dialektik" und "Antinomie der praktischen Vernunft" beschreibt, wurde bisher sehr unterschiedlich verstanden. Das Buch dokumentiert zum ersten Mal die enorme Vielfalt der divergierenden Deutungen und bietet eine textorientierte Analyse der Antinomie und ihrer Auflösung, die in vielen Aspekten heute weithin akzeptierten Auslegungen und Bewertungen widerspricht. Die Arbeit zeigt, daß die Antinomie erst möglich wurde, nachdem Kant noch nach 1781 wichtige Korrekturen an den Prinzipien der sittlichen Verpflichtung und Triebfeder vorgenommen hatte. Sie macht deutlich, daß die Antinomie der praktischen Vernunft sich in ihrer Struktur und Funktion charakteristisch von den Antinomien in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft unterscheidet.

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Book SynopsisThe book deals with a central question for the understanding of reality and the way in which human beings relate to it. Humans are creatures that can deliberate and define their actions by virtue of deliberation. He who deliberates relates himself to elements of reality that speak for or against doing something, and that in some mysterious way require him to act in a certain fashion. This book investigates this normative reality and its ontology. There is no normativity in reality independent from us. How does it then come to be in the world? What are the conditions of its existence?

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