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The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics

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The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics (Oxford Handbook) edited by James Mark Shields, Daniel Cozort
English | May 22, 2018 | ISBN: 0198746148, 0198837453 | True EPUB | 704 pages | 2 MB

Answering Moral Skepticism

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Answering Moral Skepticism

Answering Moral Skepticism by Shelly Kagan
English | October 13, 2023 | ISBN: 0197688977, 0197688985 | True EPUB | 406 pages | 0.9 MB

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism

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The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism (Oxford Handbooks) edited by Paul Bloomfield, David Copp
English | October 13, 2023 | ISBN: 0190068221 | True EPUB | 600 pages | 1.8 MB

Emotions and Risky Technologies (Repost)

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Emotions and Risky Technologies (Repost)

Emotions and Risky Technologies by Sabine Roeser
English | PDF | 2010 | 286 Pages | ISBN : 9048186463 | 3.2 MB

“Acceptable Risk” – On the Rationality (and Irrationality) of Emotional Evaluations of Risk What is “acceptable risk”? That question is appropriate in a number of different contexts, political, social, ethical, and scienti c. Thus the question might be whether the voting public will support a risky proposal or project, whether people will buy or accept a risky product, whether it is morally permissible to pursue this or that potentially harmful venture, or whether it is wise or prudent to test or try out some possibly dangerous hypothesis or product. But complicating all of these queries, the “sand in the machinery” of rational decision-making, are the emotions. It is often noted (but too rarely studied) that voters are swayed by their passions at least as much as they are convinced by rational arguments. And it is obvious to advertisers and retailers that people are seduced by all sorts of appeals to their vanities, their fears, their extravagant hopes, their insecurities.

Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies: The Ethics of Bureaucracies

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Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies: The Ethics of Bureaucracies

Organizational Ethics and Moral Integrity in Secular Societies: The Ethics of Bureaucracies by Kevin Wm Wildes, S.J.
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 277 Pages | ISBN : 3031390962 | 2.5 MB

This book explores an undeveloped area in postmodern thought: organizational ethics. Ethical debates and analyses usually focus on a particular act or action, an actor, and/or how a secular society should address any of those particular persons or events. In the Post Modern age, ethical decisions and policies are characterized by moral and cultural pluralism. However, there is a second factor that complicates ethical and policy decisions even further. This book argues that in the postmodern age ethical decisions often need to be understood as part of the decision making of organizations and bureaucracies. Organizational decisions often have direct bearing on the choices made by individuals. Two areas that exemplify postmodern issue are the areas of health care and education. For example the decision making of Admissions Officers in American higher education, are influenced by decisions that have been made by the university about the size of the class and the diversity of the class. Health Care organizations make policy decisions that affect every aspect of a patient’s care from admission to treatment and the types of care that are or are not offered. Both education and health care are the object of the significant investment of resources, both areas are value laden in postmodern, pluralistic societies, and yet we do not have a comprehensive method to understand them or evaluate them. This book is of interest to bioethicists, physicians, nurses, health care policy students, educational policy experts, students and government regulators.

The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica

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The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica

The Routledge Guidebook to Moore's Principia Ethica (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) by Susana Nuccetelli
English | November 17, 2021 | ISBN: 1138818488, 1138818496 | True EPUB | 282 pages | 0.8 MB

The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust

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The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust

The Degradation of Ethics Through the Holocaust by Paul E. Wilson
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 243 Pages | ISBN : 3031309189 | 4.4 MB

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust. Paul E. Wilson first looks at the antisemitism in Germany and Europe beginning in the decades preceding the Nazis reign of terror, and goes on to discuss the ethical decisions made in the initial stages that moved society toward genocide. The author maintains that the stages of genocide represent subtle changes that can be happening within a society in response to the moral choices made by actors. By giving attention to the stages of genocide in the Holocaust, this book contributes to the overall understanding of how the Holocaust was possible, and encourages the moral community to join the watch for the development of genocide in the modern world.

Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation: A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong

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Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation: A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong

Incentives and Disincentives in Organ Donation: A Multicultural Study among Beijing, Chicago, Tehran and Hong Kong by Ruiping Fan
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 290 Pages | ISBN : 3031292383 | 11.1 MB

This book provides the first systematic study on three types of incentives for organ donation. It covers extensive research conducted in four culturally different societies: Hong Kong, mainland China, Iran and the United States, and shows on the basis of the research that a new model of incentives can be constructed to enhance organ donation in contemporary societies. The book focuses on three types of incentives: honorary incentives, commonly adopted in the United States and other Western countries by offering things such as a thank-you card and a memorial park for donors to encourage donations motivated by pure altruism; compensationalist incentives, adopted in the Islamic Republic of Iran to encourage donation by providing monetary compensation to unrelated living donors for appreciating their altruistic contribution of donation; and familist incentives, implemented in Israel and mainland China to provide priority to organ transplantation to donors and/or their family members. The book demonstrates that a new model of incentives must go beyond offering only one type of incentives and should rather include different types of incentives that are practically effective, politically legitimate and ethically justifiable for particular societies. This implies that suitable incentive measures may vary from society to society to optimize organ donation. This book provides a clear reference for both the scholars and practitioners in the field of organ transplantation, as well as for general readers interested in bioethics and health care policy.

Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory

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Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory

Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science Volume Two Time in a Quantized Universe by Henry Mehlberg , Robert S. Cohen
English | PDF | 1980 | 301 Pages | ISBN : 9027710759 | 31.7 MB

An appreciable part of the scientific community seems to believe that contemporary physical theories are likely to affect the construction of any overall philosophical outlook, especially insofar as they are relevant to the settlement of certain persistent philosophical controversies. Two physical conceptions - the theory of relativity and the quantum theory - which have brought about a reformulation of the fundamental principles common to all the natural sciences, are considered particularly important in this regard. These conceptions have shed new light, it is held, on a number of problems involving empiricism and rationalism, determinism and indeterminism, materialism and spiritualism, idealism and realism. Such philosophical implications of the theory of relativity and quantum theory have been Widely discussed by both philosophers and philosophizing physicists. The trend in this development has been to portray these theories as generally conducive to an idealist stance.

AI Ethics: A Textbook

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AI Ethics: A Textbook

AI Ethics: A Textbook by Paula Boddington
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 531 Pages | ISBN : 9811993815 | 7.8 MB

This book introduces readers to critical ethical concerns in the development and use of artificial intelligence. Offering clear and accessible information on central concepts and debates in AI ethics, it explores how related problems are now forcing us to address fundamental, age-old questions about human life, value, and meaning. In addition, the book shows how foundational and theoretical issues relate to concrete controversies, with an emphasis on understanding how ethical questions play out in practice.

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

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Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On

Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On by William J. Devlin, Alisa Bokulich
English | PDF(True) | 2015 | 204 Pages | ISBN : 3319133829 | 1.88 MB

In 1962, the publication of Thomas Kuhn’s Structure ‘revolutionized’ the way one conducts philosophical and historical studies of science. Through the introduction of both memorable and controversial notions, such as paradigms, scientific revolutions, and incommensurability, Kuhn argued against the traditionally accepted notion of scientific change as a progression towards the truth about nature, and instead substituted the idea that science is a puzzle solving activity, operating under paradigms, which become discarded after it fails to respond accordingly to anomalous challenges and a rival paradigm. Kuhn’s Structure has sold over 1.4 million copies and the Times Literary Supplement named it one of the “Hundred Most Influential Books since the Second World War.” Now, fifty years after this groundbreaking work was published, this volume offers a timely reappraisal of the legacy of Kuhn’s book and an investigation into what Structure offers philosophical, historical, and sociological studies of science in the future.

Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work (Repost)

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Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work (Repost)

Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work by Simon Derpmann, David P. Schweikard
English | PDF | 2016 | 164 Pages | ISBN : 3319261010 | 2.3 MB

This volume documents the 16th Münster Lectures in Philosophy and examines five themes that are prominent in the work of philosopher and political theorist Philip Pettit. These themes are: Epistemology and Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, Consequentialism, Group Agency, and Republicanism.

Economic Systems, Markets and Politics: An Ethical, Behavioral and Institutional Approach

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Economic Systems, Markets and Politics: An Ethical, Behavioral and Institutional Approach

Economic Systems, Markets and Politics: An Ethical, Behavioral and Institutional Approach by Christian A. Conrad
English | PDF,EPUB | 2023 | 443 Pages | ISBN : 3031103653 | 22.3 MB

This textbook takes a new approach to economics by taking into account behavioral sciences and ethics. The basics of institutional economics are the starting point of the book, which are combined with insights from business ethics and behavioral science. It analyzes human behavior in order to discover incentives for economic agents to behave in a welfare-maximizing way, and analyzes the impact of human behavior and morality on economic systems, markets and politics. This textbook draws from new research results from behavioral economics, as well as from other disciplines, such as psychology and sociology, thus leading to new conclusions for economic science.

Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences

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Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences

Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences by Pranee Liamputtong
English | PDF | 2019 | 2258 Pages | ISBN : 9811052506 | 38.4 MB

Research is defined by the Australian Research Council as “the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies, inventions and understandings”. Research is thus the foundation for knowledge. It produces evidence and informs actions that can provide wider benefit to a society.

The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)

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The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics)

The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle, edited by Lesley Brown, translated by David Ross
English | July 15, 2009 | ISBN: 0199213615 | True EPUB/PDF | 336 pages | 16.6/1.5 MB