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 Philosophy of Technology

New Waves in Philosophy of Technology
Author: Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2008-11-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230227279

The volume advances research in the philosophy of technology by introducing contributors who have an acute sense of how to get beyond or reframe the epistemic, ontological and normative limitations that currently limit the fields of philosophy of technology and science and technology studies.

New Waves In Political Philosophy

New Waves In Political Philosophy
Author: Boudewijn de Bruin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2008-12-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230234992

Comprising essays by eleven up-and-coming scholars from across the globe, this collection of essays provides an unparalleled snapshot of new work in political philosophy using such diverse methodologies as critical theory and social choice theory, historical analysis and conceptual analysis.

New Waves in Philosophy of Law

New Waves in Philosophy of Law
Author: Maksymilian Del Mar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230316646

A collection of 11 cutting-edge essays by leading young scholars, challenging long-held assumptions and offering new research paradigms in Philosophy of Law - in five parts 1) methodology/metatheory; 2) reasoning/evaluating; 3) values/the moral life; 4) institutions/the social life; and 5) the global/international dimension.

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.