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If a competent adult refuses medical treatment, physicians and public officials must respect her decision. Coercive medical paternalism is a clear violation of the doctrine of informed consent, which protects patients' rights to make medical decisions even if a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-03
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With a focus on end-of-life discussion in aging and chronically ill populations, this book offers insight into the skill of communicating in complex and emotionally charged discussions. This text is written for all clinicians and professionals in the fields of...
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Springer
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2017-06-27
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Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-23
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We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-01
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This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-04-24
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Blackwell Public Philosophy Series
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Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon--a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-14
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The libertarian theory of free will combines a negative thesis and a positive thesis.The negative thesis is that free will is incompatible with determinism.The positive thesis is that there are actions that involve exercises of free will---'free actions,' for short....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-03
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Updated and revised, Ethics: The Basics, Second Edition, introduces students to fundamental ethical concepts, principles, theories, and traditions while providing them with the conceptual tools necessary to think critically about ethical issues. Introduces students to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-27
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Das Handbuch Verantwortung vermittelt einen Überblick über Themen und Positionen der internationalen Verantwortungsforschung. Es befasst sich mit Geschichte und Etymologie der Verantwortung und zeigt, warum der Verantwortungsbegriff zum Grundvokabular des ethischen...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-21
Collection :
Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften
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Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do one thing rather...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-16
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Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object, makes thoughts of its object pleasant or unpleasant, focuses attention on its object, and is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do one thing rather...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-09
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Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object, makes thoughts of its object pleasant or unpleasant, focuses attention on its object, and is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-09
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Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1729) is a classic work of moral philosophy, which remains widely influential.
The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love and egoism, compassion, resentment and forgiveness, and love of our...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-10
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Joseph Butler's Fifteen Sermons (1729) is a classic work of moral philosophy, which remains widely influential.
The topics Butler discusses include the role of conscience in human nature, self-love and egoism, compassion, resentment and forgiveness, and love of our...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-10
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Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-09
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Inclusive Ethics begins from two ideas which are part of our everyday morality, namely that we have a moral reason to benefit or do good to other beings, and that justice requires these benefits to be distributed equally. A morality comprising these two general...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-09
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Modern epigenetics unites scientists from life sciences, organic chemistry as well as computer and engineering sciences to find an answer to the question of how environmental influences can have a lasting effect on gene expression, maybe even into the next generations....
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Springer VS
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2017-01-31
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Polen ist eines unserer Nachbarländer und einer der zehn neuen Mitgliedstaaten, die am 1. Mai 2004 der Europäischen Union beitraten. Gen- und Reproduktionstechnologien werden seit 1987 dort angewandt.Polen ist ein slawisches Land, das demselben jüdisch-christlichen...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2017-01-27
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