Advances in artificial intelligence are enabling the construction of digital ghosts: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data. This book...Daugiau...
This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another. It gathers in one place key ethical and legal issues that bear on the justification for the criminalization of male prostitution....Daugiau...
This volume features original essays on the ethics of ending wars (jus ex bello). It fills a significant gap in just war theory and sets the stage for other thinkers to engage with the topic....Daugiau...
As providing online consent has become increasingly difficult, some have argued that surveillance capitalism needs to be overthrown. This book presents a different perspective. It departs from the concept of revolutionary change to focus on pragmati...Daugiau...
This book - which emerged amidst the novel coronavirus crisis - is designed to fill the gap in the current literature on the topic, offering an original approach to its moral implications. It can be taken as a guide in the face of this pandemic era...Daugiau...
This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future assisted reproductive t...Daugiau...
This book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere. The author provides a philosophical framework to help make sense of and govern the ethical and political impact of AI...Daugiau...
A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorismthe view that its permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conve...Daugiau...
The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making. Exploring the role of conscience in healthcare practice, this book offers fresh counte...Daugiau...
This book presents a holistic approach to the design and use of drones. It argues that this powerful technology requires high levels of ethical analysis and responsibilityour moral progress must keep pace with our technological progress....Daugiau...
This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs. It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical urban sustainability and human flourishing....Daugiau...
This book outlines and criticises the six main contemporary arguments for scepticism about the role of human enhancements in promoting well-being. It also defends important and concrete ways in which enhancement-permissive policies should be embrace...Daugiau...
This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death....Daugiau...
This book offers a historical evaluation of the corporation as a constituent of political society, outlines four distinct political philosophies of corporate social responsibility, and applies these theories to contemporary issues....Daugiau...
This book offers an original perspective on food supply chains. It argues that the ability to trade food on a global scale could be intrinsically good aside from any instrumental value that people gain from it....Daugiau...
This book argues that principles are only a limited guide to dissent in unique, contingent circumstances. There are times when we need to accommodate the dreadfulness of loss for opponents, even when the cause for which they fight is unjust. We may...Daugiau...
This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR presence to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences...Daugiau...
This book offers unique perspectives on the ever-changing nature of work and the plausibility of a universal basic income to address the elimination of jobs from the workforce....Daugiau...
This book presents varying perspectives on the contemporary value of chastity. A recovered and reconceptualized concept of chastity can offer partial solutions to problems associated with externalized sexual desire, including sweeping patterns of se...Daugiau...
How we understand our responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to political equality is connected to the standards of our news media. This book explores the conflict between the rights that people exercise through the modern me...Daugiau...
This book develops a philosophical framework for selecting goals for development purposes. This inclusive and democratic framework integrates a variety of resources including philosophical theory, empirical analysis, stakeholder deliberations, local...Daugiau...
This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and explaining the moral force of widely accepted law....Daugiau...
This book offers the first systematic normative theory for assessing and criticising counterterrorist policy. It investigates whether widely-endorsed restrictions on state action in the areas of surveillance, policing, armed conflict, criminal justi...Daugiau...
This book offers original answers to the two toughest challenges facing the rejection of moral responsibility and retributive justice: If you reject moral responsibility, what do you do about punishment? And if you reject the moral responsibility sy...Daugiau...
Against the view that corporal punishment is morally legitimate and should be legally permitted provided it falls short of abuse, Lenta argues that all corporal punishment is morally impermissible and ought to be legally proscribed. He engages with...Daugiau...
This book analyzes the major ethical issues surrounding climate engineering. It focuses primarily on solar radiation management techniques for engineering the climate, such as injecting reflective aerosols into the stratosphere or brightening marine...Daugiau...
This book discusses how effectively philosophical approaches to distributive justice and human rights can support concrete claims made by the disabled regarding their legal entitlements. It also develops a unique conception of dignity, which illumin...Daugiau...
