Ethics & moral philosophy
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Ethics & moral philosophy
Hardback. Is membership of our species important in itself, or is it just important to have the properties that a normal grown-up human being has? This text confronts and attempts to answer this and other moral and ethical questions. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; PSX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792350682
- ISBN
- 9780792350682
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Condition: New
€ 127.70
€ 127.70
Hardback. Tries to show that problematic evaluations of new technologies such as IVF may be as dangerous as no evaluation at all. This book offers an extensive evaluation of four prominent institutional assessments of IVF. It reveals how inadequate assessments may produce policies that are not in the public's best interests. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792351160
- ISBN
- 9780792351160
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Condition: New
€ 190.35
€ 190.35
Paperback. In the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal, and doctors can openly and intentionally end the life of their patients. This book addresses the debate among Dutch physicians, policy-makers, lawyers, and bioethicists, as well as families, using academic papers as well as personal experiences. Editor(s): Thomasma, David C.; Kushner, Thomasine; Kimsma, G.L. (Free University Amsterdam, Medical Faculty, The Netherlands); Ciesielski-Carlucci, C. Num Pages: 588 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 281 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1108.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 588
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792351863
- ISBN
- 9780792351863
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Condition: New
€ 126.45
€ 126.45
Hardback. Jeffrie G. Murphy's third collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his two previous collections. Murphy now explores these topics in light of issues that are normally associated with religion: forgiveness, mercy, and repentance. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792352754
- ISBN
- 9780792352754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardback. Traces the unfolding of Levinas' phenomenology into his hermeneutic of subjectivity. This volume shows how the metaphysics of the 'face' and its ethical force must give rise, at the social and political levels, to an enigmatic reference to the third party, which resembles certain transcendental terms in German Idealism. Series: Phaenomenologica. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 631.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792356943
- ISBN
- 9780792356943
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Condition: New
€ 192.31
€ 192.31
Hardback. What, ultimately, is there good reason to do? Proposing a unified theory of agent-dependent reasons and agent-independent reasons, this work holds that principles which assign reasons to agents are valid only if they make maximally good sense in the light of relevant data and background theories. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1080.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792357001
- ISBN
- 9780792357001
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Condition: New
€ 126.70
€ 126.70
Hardback. Includes essays that discuss clinical ethics consultation. Editor(s): Zaner, Richard M. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 22
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792357056
- ISBN
- 9780792357056
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Condition: New
€ 124.81
€ 124.81
Hardback. Based on a study of Rawls' theory of justice, this discussion of obligations to future generations argues that a principle, according to which we must share the environmental resources of the planet with future generations, must be considered to be part of the just basic structure of society. Series: Law and Philosophy Library. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792357568
- ISBN
- 9780792357568
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Condition: New
€ 126.01
€ 126.01
Hardback. How do science, producing knowledge and technology, and art, producing revelations and sensations, confront each other? This book addresses this question by considering Albert Einstein and Rene Magritte. It presents the meeting between Einstein and Magritte as an experiment. It provides their attitudes, and encloses perspectives and insights. Editor(s): Aerts, Diederik; Mathijs, Ernest; Mosselman, Bert. Series: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1290.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792357582
- ISBN
- 9780792357582
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Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardback. This collection of essays devoted to questions of international business presents fresh road maps to analyze business ethics topics of universal concern. Editor(s): Werhane, Patricia H.; Singer, Alan E. Series: Issues in Business Ethics. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358497
- ISBN
- 9780792358497
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Condition: New
€ 127.48
€ 127.48
Hardback. Clouser challenged many established approaches to moral theory and offered strategies for integrating the humanities into professional education, especially that of physicians and nurses. The contributions in this text contain a critical review of Clouser's work. Editor(s): Kopelman, Lorreta. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 263 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792358534
- ISBN
- 9780792358534
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Condition: New
€ 191.24
€ 191.24
Hardback. This text on rights, equality and liberty asks questions such as: What are moral rights? What role do they play in liberalism? Which rights do we have? Does the language of rights impose formal constraints? And which rights and duties does equality force us to acknowledge? Editor(s): Spector, Professor Horacio; Pincione, Guido. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 449.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Reprinted from THE JOURNAL OF ETHICS, 4:1-2, 1999
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360599
- ISBN
- 9780792360599
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Condition: New
€ 126.13
€ 126.13
Hardback. This work is a challenge to G.E.M. Anscombe in "Modern Moral Philosophy". It makes a contribution to the debate on virtue theory and anti-theory, and shows the relevance of such theoretical discussion to moral issues such as abortion, suicide, and the moral status of animals. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 990.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792360933
- ISBN
- 9780792360933
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Condition: New
€ 126.13
€ 126.13
Hardback. What are the conditions which must be met for a person to be justly held responsible for his or her moral faults and failures? This text pays systematic attention to ontological issues impinging on this question. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792362555
- ISBN
- 9780792362555
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Condition: New
€ 191.94
€ 191.94
Hardback. Human agency has rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. These papers ask what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making and practical rationality? Editor(s): Nida-Rumelin, Julian; Spohn, Wolfgang. Series: Theory and Decision Library A:. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363262
- ISBN
- 9780792363262
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Condition: New
€ 126.85
€ 126.85
Hardback. In industrialized countries, HIV/AIDS is perceived as a chronic condition. Yet initially, before combination therapy became available, this pandemic was widely associated with premature or even imminent death. This book turns this basic feature of life with HIV into the vantage point for an analysis of Western subjectivity. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1210.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792363712
- ISBN
- 9780792363712
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Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardback. A collection of papers that present the work on a problem in practical reasoning - the problem of imperceptible harms and benefits. The puzzles and paradoxes combine worries about our obligations to relieve starvation, mitigate suffering and conserve resources, with metaethical worries about the nature of practical rationality and dynamic choice. Editor(s): Almeida, Michael J. Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792364641
- ISBN
- 9780792364641
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Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardback. No theory is more passionately defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. But what is this theory, on which so much ink is spilled? This collection of original essays offers answers to that question, by exploring the theoretical commitments of liberals and some of the practical implications of their view. Editor(s): Narveson, Jan; Dimock, Susan. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 34
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792366409
- ISBN
- 9780792366409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.22
€ 127.22
Hardback. Is Aquinas' "Sententia libri Ethicorum" an interpretation of Aristotle based on 'principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas' moral philosophy? This work answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within which the "Sententia" was composed. Series: The New Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; HPCB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 653.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792369547
- ISBN
- 9780792369547
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Condition: New
€ 192.63
€ 192.63
Hardback. Revised Edition with a Second Part with a new Foreword by Anatol Rapoport Series: Theory and Decision Library A:. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792371212
- ISBN
- 9780792371212
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Condition: New
€ 278.33
€ 278.33