Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts.Awe for th……続きを見る
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Over the past 15 years, Rainer Forst has developed a fundamental……続きを見る
著者:Nick Riggle
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2017年09月19日
In this lively treatise, pro-skater-turned-philosopher Nick Riggle presents a theory of awesomeness (and its opposite, suckiness) that’s both sharply illuminating and more timely than ever
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A lot of people are talking about "superintelligent AI" these days. But what are they talking about? Indeed, what is "intelligence" in the first place? This question is often left unanswered in disc……続きを見る
Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confron……続きを見る
"I would rather go mad than feel pleasure."
- Antisthenes.
For Cynics the secret to happiness was living a life of virtue in harmony with Nature with only the bare essentials necessary for survival.……続きを見る
A collection of 13 short essays on a variety of topics in Philosophy that I've written over the years, dealing with morality, epistemology, scientific curiosity and responsibility, and a whole lot m……続きを見る
The media often talk about public opinion, the 'American' or 'British' public, or the movie-going public. A public can hold an opinion and be divided. What is the public and where did it come from? ……続きを見る
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a 1759 book by Adam Smith. It provided the ethical, philosophical, economic, and methodological underpinnings to Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nation……続きを見る
Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, ……続きを見る
This essay aims to show that veganism follows from our own core values. The essay is divided into two parts: the first part presents a simple argument for veganism based on a widely shared ethical p……続きを見る
著者:Peter Singer
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2013年08月13日
For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new cha……続きを見る
We should go vegan!
That is the unambiguous conclusion of this short book. This conclusion is reached through a broad examination of the consequences of our not being vegan – both in relation to hum……続きを見る
In contemporary non-mainstream economic debate, it is widely thought that the functioning of a market economy needs a set of rules (i.e. institutions) which bind agents in their behaviour, allowing ……続きを見る
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen here poses the question: "Is affirmative action morally (un)justifiable?" As a phrase that frequently surfaces in major headlines, affirmative action is a highly controversi……続きを見る
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with wide……続きを見る
An engaging, accessible survey of the ethical issues faced by engineers, designed for students
The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics……続きを見る
One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation. A ph……続きを見る
著者:Jonathan Haidt
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年03月13日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way tha……続きを見る
In order to assist those who would walk the moral path, I have brought about this compilation, as a guidebook presenting, in one place, most of the human moral code.
This guidebook has nothing to do……続きを見る
Chamar a nossa atenção para as várias fomes contemporâneas, assim mesmo, no plural, e elucidar seus significados são os propósitos deste livro que tenho o prazer de apresentar. Seus capítulos percor……続きを見る
著者:David Edmonds
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2023年04月18日
From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
Derek Parfit (1942–2017) is th……続きを見る
Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch's work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her in……続きを見る
En écrivant ce livre, j’ai essayé de réaliser simultanément deux ambitions : celle de comprendre les raisons qui ont pu faire de Gottfried Keller un des écrivains que Wittgenstein admirait le plus, ……続きを見る
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'We urgently need Hannah Ritchie'G……続きを見る
It is well over a decade since John Fischer and Mark Ravizza – and before them, Jay Wallace and Daniel Dennett – defended responsibility from the threat of determinism. But defending responsibility ……続きを見る
'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyo……続きを見る
The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory is a major new reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned essays by leading moral philosophers. Ethical theories have always been of central im……続きを見る