How Nature Matters, James, Simon P. (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Durham University)

Автор: Parfit Derek
Название: On What Matters
ISBN: 0198778600 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198778608
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences.

Автор: C. Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis, Byron Willisto
Название: Canadian Environmental Philosophy.- Mcgill-Queen`s University Press 2019 ISBN 9780773556669
ISBN: 0773556664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773556669
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Canadian Environmental Philosophy is the first collection of essays to take up theoretical and practical issues in environmental philosophy today, from a Canadian perspective. The essays cover various subjects, including ecological nationalism, the legacy of Grey Owl, the meaning of "outside" to Canadians, the paradigm shift from mechanism to ecology in our understanding of nature, the meaning and significance of the Anthropocene, the challenges of biodiversity protection in Canada, the conservation status of crossbred species in the age of climate change, and the moral status of ecosystems. This wide range of topics is as diverse and challenging as the Canadian landscape itself. Given the extent of humanity's current impact on the biosphere – especially evident with anthropogenic climate change and the ongoing mass extinction – it has never been more urgent for us to confront these environmental challenges as Canadian citizens and citizens of the world. Canadian Environmental Philosophy galvanizes this conversation from the perspective of this place.

Автор: Pettit Philip
Название: The Birth of Ethics: Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
ISBN: 0190904917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190904913
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge
related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have faced a set of pressures, and made a series of adjustments in response, sufficient to put them within reach of ethical concepts. Without any planning, they would have more or less inevitably
evolved a way of using such concepts to articulate desirable patterns of behavior and to hold themselves and one another responsible to those standards. Sooner or later, they would have entered ethical space.

While this central claim is developed as a thesis in conjectural history or genealogy, the aim of the exercise is philosophical. Assuming that it explains the emergence of concepts and practices that are more or less equivalent to ours, the story offers us an account of the nature and role of
morality. It directs us to the function that ethics plays in human life and alerts us to the character in virtue of which it can serve that function. The emerging view of morality has implications for the standard range of questions in meta-ethics and moral psychology, and enables us to understand
why there are divisions in normative ethics like that between consequentialist and Kantian approaches.

Автор: Tony Lawson
Название: The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology
ISBN: 0367188937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367188931
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets about rectifying matters.

Автор: Robert Frodeman
Название: Transhumanism and Nature: A Critique of Technoscience
ISBN: 0367189399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367189396
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book is an interdisciplinary account of the role of science and technology in contemporary culture, culminating in a social-political and philosophical critique of transhumanism. The author probes the assumptions of transhumanist thinkers and prominent critics as he develops his own distinctive take on transhumanism.

Автор: Allen
Название: Ethics and Integrity in British Politics
ISBN: 1107050502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107050501
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Public perceptions of political ethics are at the heart of current political debate. Drawing on original survey data, this book offers new insights into how citizens understand political ethics and integrity, and shows how current institutional preoccupations with standards of conduct all too often miss the mark.

Автор: Eastman Wayne Nordness
Название: Why Business Ethics Matters: Answers from a New Game Theory Model
ISBN: 1349580619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349580613
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book links game theory to business ethics by applying the classic Four Temperaments approach to a wide range of moral emotions, and offers academics and students of game theory a perspective that covers social preferences in a nontraditional way.

Автор: Porritt, Jonathon
Название: Capitalism as if the world matters
ISBN: 1844071936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844071937
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Argues that the only way to save the world from environmental catastrophe is to embrace a different type of capitalism, and to do it quickly. This title includes coverage of the role of the USA, with case studies examining the role of huge American corporations such as Wal-Mart and General Electric.

Автор: Linzey Andrew
Название: Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics
ISBN: 0199351848 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199351848
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this superbly argued and deeply engaging book, Andrew Linzey not only shows that animals can and do suffer but also that many of the justifications for inflicting animal suffering in fact provide grounds for protecting them.

Автор: Harden Kathryn Paige
Название: The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
ISBN: 0691190801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691190808
Издательство: Wiley
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A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society

In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health--and in ways that matter for educational and economic success in our current society.

In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces readers to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.

Reclaiming genetic science from the legacy of eugenics, this groundbreaking book offers a bold new vision of society where everyone thrives, regardless of how one fares in the genetic lottery.

Название: Creaturely Cosmologies: Why Metaphysics Matters for Animal and Planetary Liberation
ISBN: 1498501796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498501798
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: This book asserts that metaphysics is a fundamental factor in systemic brutality toward animals, plants, and marginalized populations and examines Whitehead`s process-relational thought and the nonviolent Indian tradition of Jainism in order to offer a new perspective on metaphysics.

Автор: Pihlstrom Sami
Название: Why Solipsism Matters
ISBN: 135012639X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350126398
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Solipsism is one of the philosophical thesis or ideas that has generally been regarded as highly implausible, or even crazy. The view that the world is “my world” in the sense that nothing exists independently of my mind, thought, and/or experience is, understandably, frowned up as a genuine philosophical position. For this reason, solipsism might be regarded as an example of a philosophical position that does not “matter” at all. It does not seem to play any role in our serious attempts to understand the world and ourselves. However, by arguing that solipsism does matter, after all, Why Solipsism Matters more generally demonstrates that philosophy, even when dealing with highly counterintuitive and “crazy” ideas, may matter in surprising, unexpected ways. It will be shown that the challenge of solipsism should make us rethink fundamental assumptions concerning subjectivity, objectivity, realism vs. idealism, relativism, as well as key topics such as ethical responsibility – that is, our ethical relations to other human beings – and death and mortality. Why Solipsism Matters is not only an historical review of the origins and development of the concept of solipsism and a exploration of some of its key philosophers (Kant and Wittgenstein to name but a few) but it develops an entirely new account of the idea. One which takes seriously the global, socially networked world in which we live in which the very real ramifications of solipsism - including narcissism - can be felt.