Philosophy and its public role [[electronic resource] ] : essays in ethics, politics, society and culture / / edited and introduced by William Aiken and John Haldane
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Titolo: |
Philosophy and its public role [[electronic resource] ] : essays in ethics, politics, society and culture / / edited and introduced by William Aiken and John Haldane
|
| Pubblicazione: | Exeter, U.K., : Imprint Academic, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy |
| Philosophy - Political aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
AikenWilliam
HaldaneJohn
|
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; References; Also Available | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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.... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Philosophy and its public role |
| ISBN: | 1-283-44524-7 |
| 9786613445247 | |
| 1-84540-266-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461409603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs ; ; v. 2.