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Dissecting Discrimination : Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources
This Open-Access-book examines the phenomenon of discrimination using a descriptive approach. Discrimination is omnipresent, whether it is people who discriminate against other people or, more recently, also machines that discriminate against people. The first part of the analysis employs decision theory on discrimination, leading to two fundamental subtypes: taste-based discrimination and stat…
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- -
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- 978-3-658-34569-3
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- XI, 234
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- Entscheidungs- und Organisationstheorie (EOT)
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Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement : Stories from the Frontline
This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the autistic community…
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- 1
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- 9789811384370
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- XIX, 330 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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The Ethical Spirit of EU Law
This open access book seeks to identify the ethical spirit of European Union (EU) law, a context in which we can observe a trend towards increasing references to the terms ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’. This aspect is all the more important because EU law is now affecting more and more areas of national law, including such sensitive ones as the patentability of human life. Especially when une…
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- 1
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- 9783030105822
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- XIX, 157 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility
In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality. The book sets out to examine as yet unexhausted ways to boost the resilience of the principle of liberalism. Critically reviewing the last 200 years of the philosophy of freedom, it revises the princ…
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- 1
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- 9783030047238
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- X, 365 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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Dignity in the 21st Century : Middle East and West
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons. First, the book is co-authored by scholars from two different cultures (Middle East and We…
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- 978-3-319-58020-3
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- XIII, 101
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Philosophy (BRIEFSPHILOSOPH)
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- 170 SCH d
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Forschung: Neue Möglichkeiten und Herausforde…
Dieses Buch ist eine Open Access Publikation. Der lange gehegte Traum von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) wird in unserer Alltagswelt zunehmend Realität. Damit verbinden sich hohe gesellschaftliche Erwartungen, aber auch Sorgen hinsichtlich einer schleichenden Entmündigung des Menschen. Am Beispiel des Forschungssektors lotet dieser Band die Optionen, Entwicklungschancen und Risiken von KI-Tec…
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- 1st Edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783662634493
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- XXIV, 179
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- -
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Alternatives to Animal Testing
This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments – replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from acro…
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- 1
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- 9789811324475
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- VI, 130 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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The Ethics of Cybersecurity
This open access book provides the first comprehensive collection of papers that provide an integrative view on cybersecurity. It discusses theories, problems and solutions on the relevant ethical issues involved. This work is sorely needed in a world where cybersecurity has become indispensable to protect trust and confidence in the digital infrastructure whilst respecting fundamental values l…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-29053-5
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- XVII, 384
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- The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (ELTE, volume 21)
- Call Number
- 170 ETH
Recommender Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues
This open access contributed volume examines the ethical and legal foundations of (future) policies on recommender systems and offers a transdisciplinary approach to tackle important issues related to their development, use and integration into online eco-systems. This volume scrutinizes the values driving automated recommendations - what is important for an individual receiving the recommendat…
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- 978-3-031-34804-4
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- VI, 222
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- The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (ELTE, volume 40)
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- 340 REC
The Ethics of Vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-02068-2
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- -
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy
- Call Number
- 2946-2746
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