(Paperback)
By: Dr T. J. Mawson
ISBN: 9781441102096
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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How can we be free if everything is determined by factors beyond our control, stretching back in time to the Big Bang and the laws of nature operating then Does not randomness hinder you from being the author of your actions This book looks at how much of the structure of our everyday judgments can survive the arguments behind such questions.
(Hardback)
By: Dr T. J. Mawson
ISBN: 9781441196231
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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An up-to-date and approachable exploration of the age-old question, "What is free will and do we have it"
(Hardback)
By: Dr Joe Saunders
ISBN: 9781350187757
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Dr Joe Saunders
ISBN: 9781350188990
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Joel Feinberg
ISBN: 9780691019246
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, this title features fourteen essays that deal with the field of legal philosophy. It concludes with two essays dealing with concepts used in appraising the whole of a person's life: absurdity and self-fulfillment, and their interplay.
(Hardback, Expanded Edition)
By: Stuart Hampshire
ISBN: 9780691645063
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Expanded Edition)
By: Stuart Hampshire
ISBN: 9780691617985
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Extended version of the De Carle lectures delivered at the University of Otago at Dunedin, New Zealand, in July and August 1964."--Preface to the second edition.
(Paperback)
By: Pamela Hieronymi
ISBN: 9780691233970
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Professor Stewart Goetz
ISBN: 9781441187697
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents a defence of the existence of libertarian freedom of will, arguing that choices are essentially uncaused events with teleological explanations. This title advocates and defends the principle of alternative possibilities which states that agents are morally responsible for a choice only if they are free to choose otherwise.
(Hardback)
By: J. S. Spink
ISBN: 9781472512437
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Howard Radest
ISBN: 9780275961947
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The current development of biomedical ethics is a source of radical critique not only in the clinic, but also in the classroom. The use of a rich and complex literature drawn from biomedical ethics, pedagogy, and philosophy serves to stimulate the reader to think through the moral complexity and ambivalence of modern experience.
(Hardback)
By: Charles Brittain
ISBN: 9780691131238
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents a collection of papers in ancient moral philosophy. This book interprets Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. It ranges from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation.
(Hardback)
By: Stefan Skrimshire
ISBN: 9781441176554
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents a comprehensive examination of the philosophical questions facing activists, policy makers and educators fighting the causes of climate change. This book is suitable for students of environmental ethics in multiple disciplines.
(Paperback)
By: Stefan Skrimshire
ISBN: 9781441139580
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Presents a comprehensive examination of the philosophical questions facing activists, policy makers and educators fighting the causes of climate change. This book is suitable for students of environmental ethics in multiple disciplines.
(Hardback)
By: Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond
ISBN: 9780567030795
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Drawing on a colloquium held at St Deniol's library in 2005, this book focuses on the contemporary possibilities inherent in medical science and the challenges that this raises for an understanding of human identity. It offers philosophical and scientific debates as to how far there can be any claim for the existence of human nature as such.
(Paperback, NIPPOD)
By: Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond
ISBN: 9780567234018
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A collection of essays focussing on the implications for an understanding of human identity in light of the current possibilities in medical science. >
(Paperback)
By: Professor Jill Graper Hernandez
ISBN: 9781472505989
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Jill Graper Hernandez
ISBN: 9781441196279
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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The idea of 'hope' has received significant attention in the political sphere. But is hope just wishful thinking, or can it be something more than a political catch-phrase This book argues that hope can be understood existentially, or on the basis of what it means to be human.
(Hardback)
By: Patrick Riordan
ISBN: 9781472580849
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Patrick Riordan
ISBN: 9781474294263
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Judith Jarvis Thomson
ISBN: 9780691114736
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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How should we live What do we owe to other people This book explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions.
(Paperback)
By: David J. Krieger
ISBN: 9781839985881
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Anthem Press
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(Hardback)
By: David J. Krieger
ISBN: 9781785277375
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Anthem Press
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The book develops an exploit kit on the basis of state-of-the-art social theory and uses it to breach the insecure legacy system upon which the discourse of digital ethics is running.
(Hardback)
By: Deirdre Lauren Mahony
ISBN: 9781350034174
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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