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Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention

Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Thomas Søbirk Petersen
August 05, 2024

This book addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP strategies, but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP measures. In ethically analysing a particular SCP method, it is not enough to look at...

Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Davide Battisti
June 28, 2024

This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future assisted reproductive technologies brings out new procreative obligations...

Human Freedom in the Age of AI

Human Freedom in the Age of AI

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Filippo Santoni de Sio
March 29, 2024

This book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere. The author provides a philosophical framework to help make sense of and govern the ethical and political impact of AI in these domains. AI presents great opportunities ...

The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality Building Worlds

The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building Worlds

1st Edition

By Erick Jose Ramirez
January 29, 2024

This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences. The author provides compelling evidence that VR ...

The Philosophy of Online Manipulation

The Philosophy of Online Manipulation

1st Edition

Edited By Fleur Jongepier, Michael Klenk
January 29, 2024

Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in ...

New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism Critical Perspectives

New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Cheryl Abbate, Christopher Bobier
October 13, 2023

A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism—the view that it’s permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debate in ...

Why Conscience Matters A Defence of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare

Why Conscience Matters: A Defence of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare

1st Edition

By Xavier Symons
October 02, 2023

The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making. Exploring the role of conscience in healthcare practice, this book offers fresh counterpoints to recent calls to ban or severely ...

The Ethics of Drone Design How Value-Sensitive Design Can Create Better Technologies

The Ethics of Drone Design: How Value-Sensitive Design Can Create Better Technologies

1st Edition

By Dylan Cawthorne
August 04, 2023

This book presents a holistic approach to the design and use of drones. It argues that this powerful technology requires high levels of ethical analysis and responsibility – our moral progress must keep pace with our technological progress. Drone technologies support and diminish the flourishing ...

Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age

Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age

1st Edition

Edited By Evandro Barbosa
July 06, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic, whose consequences will be felt in the long term, can be interpreted as a signal that we have been living in a pandemic age. A pandemic is humanity's common ground, so the moral problems inherent in it are of interest to everyone from now on. It brought a set of ...

Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity?

Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity?

1st Edition

Edited By Eric Silverman
May 31, 2023

This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity. The virtue of chastity has traditionally been portrayed as an excellent personal disposition concerning the ideal ordering of ...

Urban Enlightenment Multistakeholder Engagement and the City

Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City

1st Edition

By Shane Epting
March 10, 2023

This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs. It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical urban sustainability and human flourishing. While there is a history of philosophers viewing cities as ...

Human Enhancement and Well-Being A Case for Optimism

Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism

1st Edition

By Emma C. Gordon
December 30, 2022

New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we? This book has two main aims. First, it...

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