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How we understand our responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to political equality is connected to the standards of our news media. This book explores the conflict between the rights that people exercise through the modern media and the responsibilities that accrue on account of its increasing power.

The topics addressed in Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy include the right to die, abortion, same-sex marriage, free speech, terrorism, and international justice. This book will be of interest to Hobbesian scholars, as well as those interested in contemporary issues in applied ethics, political philosophy, and public policy.

Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself-what it is and why it is morally salient-is under-theorized. The Ethics of Vulnerability brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these d

This book offers a historical evaluation of the corporation as a constituent of political society, outlines four distinct political philosophies of corporate social responsibility, and applies these theories to contemporary issues.

This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs. It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical urban sustainability and human flourishing.

This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.

This book provides philosophical depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The chapters explore the ramifications of our interactions with online technologies such as online recommender systems, social media, user friendly design, microtargeting, default settings, gamification, and real time profiling.

Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself¿what it is and why it is morally salient¿is under-theorized. The Ethics of Vulnerability brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these discussions, as well as bioethicists, medical ethicists and public policy theorists working on instances of vulnerability in specific contexts.

This book presents varying perspectives on the contemporary value of chastity. A recovered and reconceptualized concept of chastity can offer partial solutions to problems associated with externalized sexual desire, including sweeping patterns of sexual harassment, the high divorce/relationship-failure rate, and widespread pornography use.

This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error. The contributors include top scholars and practitioners working in bioethics, communication, law, medicine and philosophy.

This book explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights. It aims to bring expert practitioners from these literatures into fruitful and innovative dialogue around questions at the intersection of procreation and parenthood.

This book offers unique perspectives on the ever-changing nature of work and the plausibility of a universal basic income to address the elimination of jobs from the workforce.

How we understand our responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to political equality is connected to the standards of our news media. This book explores the conflict between the rights that people exercise through the modern media and the responsibilities that accrue on account of its increasing power.

This book explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights. It aims to bring expert practitioners from these literatures into fruitful and innovative dialogue around questions at the intersection of procreation and parenthood. A distinguishing feature is that several of its chapters address these issues by drawing on philosophical work in the realm of education, one of the most controversial areas in the ethics of parenthood. This book represents a distinctive synthesis of topics and literatures likely to appeal to scholars and advanced students working across a wide range of disciplines.