Responsibility and Punishment

J Angelo Corlett

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 9
• This book presents a lucid defense of retributivism against several long-standing criticisms. Extending the problem of wrong doing to collectives and ... Lees meer

Towards a Sustainable Philosophy of Endurance Sport

Ron Welters

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 37
• This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological di... Lees meer

Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

Stephen Petro

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 33
• This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their a... Lees meer

Time and Ethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 14
• Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives. Actions and lives are temporal things. Thus, one would thin... Lees meer

Personal and Moral Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 11
• The subject of personal and moral identity is at the centre of interest, not only of academic research within disciplines such as philosophy and psych... Lees meer

The Third Law of Evolution and the Future of Life

Gerard A J M Jagers Op Akkerhuis

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 43
• This book offers a step-by-step introduction to an integrated theory of physical and biological evolution, from the early universe to the world we kno... Lees meer

Time, Life & Memory

Laurens Landeweerd

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 38
• This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences. It explores the relevance of... Lees meer

The Different Faces of Autonomy

M Schermer

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 13
• Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy. Thi... Lees meer

Freedom and Value

Ishtiyaque Haji

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 21
• Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of... Lees meer

Imperceptible Harms and Benefits

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 8
• The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much- neglected problem in practical reasoning. It is the problem of imperceptible harms... Lees meer

The Repugnant Conclusion

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 15
• Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, fee... Lees meer

The Good Life as a Public Good

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 6
• According to the neutrality thesis, in designing state policies governments should not allow themselves to be informed by any particular conceptions o... Lees meer

Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality Between Facts and Norms

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 32
• This volume provides an overview of the most recent developments in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impact and importance for ... Lees meer

Tales of Research Misconduct

Hub Zwart

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 36
• The first and only book addressing issues of research integrity and scientific misconduct in novelsAnalyses novels in a comprehensive in-depth manner ... Lees meer

Moral Beliefs and Moral Theory

M G Forrester

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 10
• Some time ago I wrote a book (Moral Language, 1982) in which I argued that moral judgments are capable of being true ('truth-apt, ' to use a current p... Lees meer

Tales of Research Misconduct

Hub Zwart

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 36
• The first and only book addressing issues of research integrity and scientific misconduct in novelsAnalyses novels in a comprehensive in-depth manner ... Lees meer

Reasons for Action

B C Postow

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 4
• 2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them. Other people may coherently judge that I am incapable o... Lees meer

Trust: The Tacit Demand

O Lagerspetz

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 1
• Even though several branches of philosophy meet in the notion of trust, it has nevertheless been largely neglected by mainstream philosophy. Arguably,... Lees meer

New Perspectives on Paternalism and Health Care

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 35
• This work sets the stage regarding debates about paternalism and health care for years to come. The anthology is organized around four parts: i) The c... Lees meer

Time, Life & Memory

Laurens Landeweerd

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 38
• This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences. It explores the relevance of... Lees meer

Ethical Reasoning in Forensic Science

Lyndsie Ferrara

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 41
• This book explores the impact of ethical reasoning in forensic science and demonstrates that it is in fact a foundational skill required by those enga... Lees meer

The Ethics of Proportionate Punishment

Jesper Ryberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 16
• The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years. In contrast with a large number of ethical problems which are concerned with rig... Lees meer

How to Think about Progress

Nicholas Agar, Stuart Whatley, Dan Weijers

• Hardcover | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 42
• How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology's potential stand up to humanity's most ... Lees meer

Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality Between Facts and Norms

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy | nr. 32
• This volume provides an overview of the most recent developments in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impact and importance for ... Lees meer