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The Evolution of Morality
"A Bradford book."A consideration of whether the human capacity to make moral judgments is innate and, if so, what implications follow; combines philosophical discussion with the latest findings from the empirical sciences.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262276535
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- 1 online resource (271 pages).
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Fact and value :essays on ethics and metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson
"A Bradford book."A diverse collection of essays, which reflect the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work.The diversity of topics discussed in this book reflects the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. Throughout her long career at MIT, Thomson's straightforward approach and emphasis on problem-solving have shaped philosophy in significant ways. Some of the bo…
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- 9780262269612
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- 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages)
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Transgression in games and play
Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions. Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players. Videogames themselves can include transgressive or upsetting content, including excessive violence. Such …
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- 0262348705
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- 1 online resource (vi, 318 pages)
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Healing psychiatry : bridging the science/humanism divide
A new patient-centered approach to psychiatry that aims to resolve the field's conceptual tension between science and humanism by drawing on classical American pragmatism and contemporary pragmatic bioethics. Psychiatry today is torn by opposing sensibilities. Is it primarily a science of brain functioning or primarily an art of understanding the human mind in its social and cultural context? C…
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- 9780262269247
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 178 pages).
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- 610 BRE h
Good and real :demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics
"A Bradford book."Examining a series of provocative paradoxes about consciousness, choice, ethics, and other topics, Good and Real tries to reconcile a purely mechanical view of the universe with key aspects of our subjective impressions of our own existence.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262271943
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 347 pages) : illustrations
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Identity, character, and morality : essays in moral psychology
"[Some essays] were first presented at the conference Character and Morality held at Radcliffe College in April 1988"--Acknowledgements."A Bradford book."Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraint…
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- 0262272768
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- 1 online resource (vii, 487 pages)
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- 150 IDE
Imagine there's no woman : ethics and sublimation
A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality.Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud'…
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- 9780262270793
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- 1 online resource (viii , 261 pages) : illustrations
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- 100 COP i
Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children
Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to unde…
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- 9780262305822
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- 1 online resource (195 pages).
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Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility :the New Language of Global B…
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2012)."'Human dignity' has been enshrined in international agreements and national constitutions as a fundamental human right. The World Medical Association calls on physicians to respect human dignity and to discharge their duties with dignity. And yet human dignity is a term--like love, hope, and justice--that is intuitively grasped but never clea…
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- 9780262305815
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) :illustrations.
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Natural ethical facts :evolution, connectionism, and moral cognition
"A Bradford book."In Natural Ethical Facts William Casebeer argues that we can articulate a fully naturalized ethical theory using concepts from evolutionary biology and cognitive science, and that we can study moral cognition just as we study other forms of cognition. His goal is to show that we have "softly fixed" human natures, that these natures are evolved, and that our lives go well or ba…
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- 9780262270021
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- 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
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