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This book employs perspectives from continental philosophy, intellectual history, and literary and cultural studies to breach the divide between early modernist and modernist thinkers. It turns to early modern humanism in order to challenge late 20th-century thought and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-14
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We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures.We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-13
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We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures.We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-13
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Das Buch gibt nach einer kurzen und gut verständlichen Einführung in die Grundlagen der Genetik eine Übersicht über die derzeit wichtigsten praktischen Anwendungsbereiche der Gentechnik. Eine Technik, die uns allen in den verschiedensten Lebensbereichen begegnet. Sei es...
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Springer VS
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2016-10-10
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What is a just way of spending public resources for health and health care? Several significant answers to this question are under debate. Public spending could aim to promote greater equality in health, for example, or maximize the health of the population, or provide...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-30
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Sport is often thought of as simply "games," but it can in fact be much more.Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-26
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In the last forty years, action theory has revitalized moral philosophy. Philosophers have explored the nature of agency, what is involved in acting for a reason, how we know what we are doing, the role of intention, desire, and belief in motivating action, and more. At...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-20
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It is the continuous reports of unethical behavior in the form of data manipulation, cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of unacceptable behavior that draw attention to the issues of misconduct. The causes of misconduct are manifold whether it is the need to advance...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2016-08-26
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For several decades Rafael Capurro has been at the forefront of defining the relationship between information and modernity through both phenomenological and ethical formulations. In exploring both of these themes Capurro has re-vivified the transcultural and...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-08
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Das Buch bietet in 24 Kapiteln einen systematischen Einblick in methodische und thematische Fragen der Medizin- und Bioethik in Deutschland von 1995 bis 2016. Dieser beginnt mit metaethischen Aspekten der Relation zwischen Ethik und Moral sowie mit der keineswegs...
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Springer VS
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2016-08-02
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Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms. The book explores connections between the two. The conception of self that informs this book is the joint product of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-02
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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
Parution :
2016-07-28
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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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2016-07-28
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This book addresses the problem of how to make democratically-legitimate public policy on issues of contentious bioethical debate. It focuses on ethical contests about research and their legitimate resolution, while addressing questions of political legitimacy. How...
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Springer
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2016-07-27
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The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do. But what are emotions, exactly, and how do they relate to agency?The aim of this book is to spell out an account of emotions, which is grounded on analogies between emotions and...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-07-14
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The emotions we experience are crucial to who we are, to what we think, and to what we do. But what are emotions, exactly, and how do they relate to agency?The aim of this book is to spell out an account of emotions, which is grounded on analogies between emotions and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-24
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Werte sind selbstverständlich. Über sie redet jeder. Und jeder nimmt sie für sich in Anspruch. Häufig für Widersprüchliches: beispielsweise ebenso dafür, sich für Flüchtlinge einzusetzen, wie dafür, sie abzuweisen.Werte scheinen allgegenwärtig und alternativlos. Und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-06-10
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Do we have free will and moral responsibility? Is free will compatible with determinism? Scott Sehon argues that we can make progress on these questions by focusing on an underlying issue: the nature of action explanation. When a person acts, or does something on...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-28
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Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-22
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Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question have treated the...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-21
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