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UNINA9910461409603321 |
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Titolo |
Philosophy and its public role [[electronic resource] ] : essays in ethics, politics, society and culture / / edited and introduced by William Aiken and John Haldane |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Exeter, U.K., : Imprint Academic, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-44524-7 |
9786613445247 |
1-84540-266-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Collana |
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St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; ; v. 2 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy |
Philosophy - Political aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Philosophy, Society and Culture; John Haldane, American Philosophy and its Public Role; Bob Brecher, Do Intellectuals have a Special Public Responsibility?; John Arthur, Impartial Public Reason and its Critics; David Carr, Auden's Great Healers; Terence McLaughlin, Philosophy, Values and Schooling; Wendy Donner, Is Cultural Membership a Good?; Ethics, Economics and Justice; Andrew Moore, Postmortem Reproduction, Consent, and Policy; Geoffrey Cupit, Three Ways to Value Equality |
Bart Gruzalski, Mitigating the Consumption of the US Living StandardJames Child, Globalization, Technology and the New Economy; Richard Brook, Statistical and Identifiable Deaths; Rights, Law and Punishment; Rex Martin, Human Rights: Constitutional and International; Lisa Portmess, Military Tribunals: Procedural Justice and the Problem of Evidence; Anthony Ellis, A Deterrence Theory of Punishment; Jonathan Jacobs, Retributivism and Public Norms; Daniel Farrell, Capital Punishment and Societal Self-Defence; Back Matter; |
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References; Also Available |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection of essays brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment. The topics discussed range from the public responsibility of intellectuals to the justice of military tribunals, and from posthumous reproduction to the death penalty.... |
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