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Islamic Ethics and Incidental Findings Genomic Morality Beyond the Secular Paradigm
This open access book offers unique insights into the key ethical issues faced by practitioners and discussed by ethicists in the field of genomics...
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Algorithmic Democracy A Critical Perspective Based on Deliberative Democracy
Based on a deliberative democracy, this book uses a hermeneutic-critical methodology to study bibliographical sources and practical issues in order...
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How to Think Ethically about Global Issues
This textbook is an introduction to thinking ethically about global issues. Unlike existing books in this area, this book is truly interdisciplinary...
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Ontology, Relational Ethics, and Corporations
This book offers a unique exploration and analysis of social responsibility and associated ethical concepts used by business and financial...
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Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives
This book presents consciousness models from Eastern and Western perspectives that accommodate current scientific research in the natural sciences...
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Diversity and Disagreement From Fundamental Biases to Ethical Interactions
This book details the discovery and exploration of one of the major scientific revelations that has emerged from the field of experimental...
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Intuitively Rational: How We Think and How We Should
This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists,...
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Resolving Intergenerational Conflicts An Approach from Philosophy, Economics, and Experiments
This book is an unprecedented consideration of the challenges of what we can do for generations yet to come. Many growing intergenerational conflicts...
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Ethical Reasoning in Forensic Science
This book explores the impact of ethical reasoning in forensic science and demonstrates that it is in fact a foundational skill required by those...
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Jan Patočka and the Phenomenology of Life After Death
This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patočka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions...
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On the Power and Limits of Empathy
This book has two main objectives. The first is to identify and adequately describe the phenomenon of empathy. This essentially means offering a...
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Human Nature, Mind and the Self in Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy What Does it Mean to Be Human?
This book investigates the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question: what makes us human beings from a moral...
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Jacques Derrida on the Aporias of Hospitality
The book systematically presents Derrida’s views on hospitality, as reflected in his texts and lectures from 1995 until his death in October 2004....
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Taking Responsibility for Climate Change
This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action toward mitigating climate change....
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Understanding Violence The Intertwining of Morality, Religion, Capitalism and Violence: A Philosophical Stance
This book offers a philosophical account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in disciplines such as cognitive science,...
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Ethics of Eating and Drinking Food and Relations
This book presents and discusses some of the problems that are increasingly emerging today in our relationship with food as well as in our style of...
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Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in...
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Values Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the...
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Justice in Climate Policy Distributing Climate Costs Fairly
This open access book is looking into ways to achieve just climate policy within a country. The authors of this monograph share a unique, timely and...
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Derrida and Inheritance in Environmental Ethics The Half-Lives of Responsibility
This book argues for the necessity of a re-evaluation of our thinking about responsibly relating to future generations in the context of...
