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This book provides a philosophical analysis of adultchild sex and pedophilia. In particular, it explores whether those who engage in adultchild sex have a disease, act wrongly, or are vicious and how the law should respond to it.

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While much literature has sprouted on peer review, this is the first book-length, wide-ranging study that utilizes methods and resources of contemporary philosophy. It covers the tension between peer review and the liberal notion that truth emerges when ideas proliferate in th...

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How has a liberating principle of the Enlightenment - the right to pursue happiness - become the unavoidable and burdensome responsibility to be happy How did we become unhappy about not being happy - and what might we do to escape this predicament This book considers these questions.

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Explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies and public opinion on the subject. This book shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of personal responsibility.

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Explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies and public opinion on the subject. This book shows how philosophy can contribute to public democratic debate on pressing issues of personal responsibility.

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Explores one of the most controversial philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer, and his radical and inspiring work on animal rights, ethics, and globalization. This book gives a platform to critics of Singer's many contentious ideas about disability and euthanasia, utilitarianism abortion and global poverty, among others.

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An exploration of one of the most fundamental human questions: how to lead a good life. Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naive disciple, Protarchus and Socrates, this book is a consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good.

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Represents the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to Foot's work, offering a complete chronological and thematic overview, emphasising the role Foot played in the development of contemporary virtue ethics. This is the ideal introduction for students seeking a synthetic grasp of Foot's moral vision.

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Represents the first comprehensive and accessible introduction to Foot's work, offering a complete chronological and thematic overview, emphasising the role Foot played in the development of contemporary virtue ethics. This is the ideal introduction for students seeking a synthetic grasp of Foot's moral vision.

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This book provides rigorous but accessible scholarship, ideal for students in philosophy and public policy. It includes twelve original essays by world-renowned scholars, each examining a key topic in philosophy and public policy and demonstrating how policy debates can be advanced by employing the tools and concepts of philosophy.

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This book provides rigorous but accessible scholarship, ideal for students in philosophy and public policy. It includes twelve original essays by world-renowned scholars, each examining a key topic in philosophy and public policy and demonstrating how policy debates can be advanced by employing the tools and concepts of philosophy.

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Provides a conceptual framework for engaging in debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies in a critical manner through the constructive lens of playing God arguments.

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This book treats practical and political reasoning as an active engagement with the world and other people; it cannot be understood as exclusively cognitive and this is seen as a virtue rather than a deficiency. Informal, emotional, characterological, aesthetic and interaction...

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The ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle constitute a large body of Greek philosophical writings, not previously translated into European languages. This volume includes notes and indexes and forms part of a series to fill this gap.

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This book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, allowing for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology.

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This book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, allowing for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology.

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