New Waves in Applied Ethics

New Waves in Applied Ethics
Author: Jesper Ryberg
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2007-11-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

This volume contains work by the very best young scholars working in Applied Ethics, gathering a range of new perspectives and thoughts on highly relevant topics, such as the environment, animals, computers, freedom of speech, human enhancement, war and poverty. For researchers and students working in or around this fascinating area of the discipline, the volume will provide a unique snapshot of where the cutting-edge work in the field is currently engaged and where it's headed.

New Waves in Ethics

New Waves in Ethics
Author: T. Brooks
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230305881

Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.

New Waves in Ethics

New Waves in Ethics
Author: T. Brooks
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230305881

Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.

New Waves in Metaethics

New Waves in Metaethics
Author: Michael S. Brady
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230294898

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.

New Waves in Truth

New Waves in Truth
Author: C. Wright
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2010-07-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230296998

What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today.

New Waves in Aesthetics

New Waves in Aesthetics
Author: K. Stock
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230227457

Leading young scholars present a collection of wide-ranging essays covering central problems in meta-aesthetics and aesthetic issues in the philosophy of mind, as well as offering analyses of key aesthetic concepts, new perspectives on the history of aesthetics, and specialized treatment of individual art forms.

New Waves in Philosophy of Religion

New Waves in Philosophy of Religion
Author: Yujin Nagasawa
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2009
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Cutting-edge research is presented by some of the best philosophers of religion of the new generation, who address such topics as divine attributes, the origin of the universe, evolution and design, implications and puzzles of religious doctrines, morality and God, and the meaning of life.

New Waves in Metaphysics

New Waves in Metaphysics
Author: A. Hazlett
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230297420

A collection of new essays by young scholars on the cutting edge of this ancient philosophical area. Diverse topics, including ontology, free will, fundamental properties, and causation, the volume will appeal both to specialists and to anyone interested in the present and future state of metaphysics in the English-speaking world.

New Waves in Philosophical Logic

New Waves in Philosophical Logic
Author: G. Restall
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1137003723

Philosophical logic has been, and continues to be, a driving force behind much progress and development in philosophy more broadly. This collection by up-and-coming philosophical logicians deals with a broad range of topics, including, for example, proof-theory, probability, context-sensitivity, dialetheism and dynamic semantics.