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Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare
(September 2020)
Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Steven C. Roach - Editor
Amy E. Eckert - Editor
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Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.
Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare explores the complex relationship between just war theory and the ethics of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). One of the challenges facing ethicists of war, particularly just war theorists, is that AWS is an applicative concept that seems,...(Read More) |
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Adult Life
(August 2020)
Aging, Responsibility, and the Pursuit of Happiness
John Russon - Author
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Drawing from philosophy and psychology, offers a clear and compelling interpretation of what it means to be an adult.
What does it mean to be an adult? In this original and compelling work, John Russon answers that question by leading us through a series of rich reflections on the psychological and social dimensions of adulthood and by exploring some of the deepest ethical and existential issues that confront human life: intimac...(Read More) |
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On Metaphysical Necessity
(August 2020)
Essays on God, the World, Morality, and Democracy
Franklin I. Gamwell - Author
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Emphasizes the importance of metaphysical necessity to both philosophical theology and, through it, to moral and political theory.
In this collection of essays, Franklin I. Gamwell offers a defense of transcendental metaphysics, especially in its neoclassical form, and builds a case for its importance as a tool for addressing abiding problems in philosophical theology and morality—including talk about God, human fault, mor...(Read More) |
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Confucianism's Prospects
(August 2019)
A Reassessment
Shaun O'Dwyer - Author
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Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.
In Confucianism’s Prospects, Shaun O’Dwyer offers a rare critical engagement with English language scholarship on Confucianism. Against the background of historical and sociological research into the rapid modernization of...(Read More) |
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Hyperthematics
(August 2019)
The Logic of Value
Marc M. Anderson - Author
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Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.
In this innovative work, Marc M. Anderson presents an account of value and value creation, which both defines value and introduces a method to manipulate value practically. Using this new methodology, Anderson first explores where value lies in experience, both human and otherwise, uncovering tendencies in human action and...(Read More) |
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The Little Crystalline Seed
(June 2019)
The Ontological Significance of Mise en Abyme in Post-Heideggerian Thought
Iddo Dickmann - Author
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Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.
Mise en abyme is a term developed from literary theory denoting a work that doubles itself within itself—a story placed within a story or a play within a play. The term flourished in experimental fiction in midcentury France, having not only a strong imp...(Read More) |
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Face to Face with Animals
(May 2019)
Levinas and the Animal Question
Peter Atterton - Editor
Tamra Wright - Editor
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Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.
This is the first volume of primary and secondary source material dedicated solely to the animal question in Levinas. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including the recent discovery and digitization of the original French recording of an interview with Levinas that took place in 1986, it seeks to give fresh impetus to the debate surround...(Read More) |
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Jewish Veganism and Vegetarianism
(April 2019)
Studies and New Directions
Jacob Ari Labendz - Editor
Shmuly Yanklowitz - Editor
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A multidisciplinary approach to the study of veganism, vegetarianism, and meat avoidance among Jews, both historical and contemporary.
In recent decades, as more Jews have adopted plant-based lifestyles, Jewish vegan and vegetarian movements have become increasingly prominent. This book explores the intellectual, religious, and historical roots of veganism and vegetarianism among Jews and presents compelling new directions in J...(Read More) |
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Pragmatism Applied
(April 2019)
William James and the Challenges of Contemporary Life
Clifford S. Stagoll - Editor
Michael P. Levine - Editor
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Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.
William James, one of America’s most original philosophers and psychologists, was concerned above all with the manner in which philosophy might help people to cope with the vicissitudes of daily life. Writing around the turn of the twentieth century, James experienced firsthand, much as we do now, the impact ...(Read More) |
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The Other in Perception
(November 2018)
A Phenomenological Account of Our Experience of Other Persons
Susan Bredlau - Author
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Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.
Drawing on the original phenomenological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Edmund Husserl, Simone de Beauvoir, and John Russon, as well as recent research in child psychology, The Other in Perception argues for perception’s inherently existential significance: we ...(Read More) |
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