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Basic Bioethics eBook Series

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  • Re-Reasoning Ethics

    The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics

    by Barry Hoffmaster, Cliff Hooker ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal paradigm of ethical ... Read more

    ₹2,108.77

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  • Debating Procreation

    Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

    by David Benatar, David Wasserman ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that ... Read more

    ₹816.90

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

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  • Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions

    by Sabine Roeser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
    Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and pollution. As a consequence, technologies can trigger emotions, including fear and indignation, which often ... Read more

    ₹7,813.73

  • The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

    Edited by Hugh LaFollette, Ingmar Persson ...
    Series series Blackwell Philosophy Guides
    Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers.A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new materialIncludes 21 essays written by an ... Read more

    ₹3,642.00

  • Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology

    by Philip Manning ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    The work of Erving Goffman has had an enormous impact throughout the social sciences. Yet his writings have not received the detailed scrutiny which they deserve.This new book is the first comprehensive and accessible account of Erving Goffman's contributions, ranging in its scope from his very earliest work right up to the projects upon which he was engaged at the time of his death. Goffman's ... Read more

    ₹1,907.00

  • The Tyranny of the Ideal

    Justice in a Diverse Society

    by Gerald Gaus ...
    In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might share a common moral life shaped by a just framework. He argues that if we are to take diversity seriously and if moral inquiry is sincere about ... Read more

    ₹2,684.49

  • Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning

    The Primacy of Dispositions

    by Hugh Sockett ...
    The challenge this book addresses is to demonstrate how, in teaching content knowledge, the development of intellectual and moral dispositions as virtues is not merely a good idea, or peripheral to that content, but deeply embedded in the logic of searching for knowledge and truth.It offers a powerful example of how philosophy of education can be brought to bear on real problems of educational ... Read more

    ₹8,241.93

  • The Emotional Construction of Morals

    by Jesse Prinz ...
    Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends the hypothesis that morality has an emotional foundation. ... Read more

    ₹877.44

  • An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics

    by Scott M. James ...
    Offering the first general introductory text to this subject, the timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics reflects the most up-to-date research and current issues being debated in both psychology and philosophy. The book presents students to the areas of cognitive psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics.The first general introduction to evolutionary ethicsProvides a comprehensive survey of ... Read more

    ₹3,623.00

  • The Ethics of Killing Animals

    by Peter Singer ...
    While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives or dies? Is a longer life better for an animal than a shorter life? If so, under what conditions is ... Read more

    ₹968.30

  • The Evolution of Moral Progress

    A Biocultural Theory

    by Allen Buchanan, Russell Powell ...
    In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, history, and sociology. Their focus is on one especially important type of moral progress: ... Read more

    ₹816.90