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The Metaphysics of Kindness : Comparative Studies in Religious Meta-Ethics / by Walden, Asher

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Moral philosophy ; a systematic introduction to normative ethics and meta-ethics / by Garner, Richard T.

The handbook of communication ethics

Table of Contents: “…Postmodernism, globalization, and the meta-ethics of contemporary communication / Bryan C. …”
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The nature of moral thinking by Snare, Francis

Table of Contents: “…Moral thinking and philosophical questions -- Authoritarian ethics and subjectivist ethics -- Some classic ethical theories -- Psychological egoism and hedonism -- Meta-ethical theories -- Hume's gap and the naturalistic fallacy -- Relativism in general -- Descriptive relativism and meta-ethical subjectivism -- Genetic accounts which debunk morality -- Descriptive relativism and varieties of normative relativism -- Whether meta-ethical subjectivism has practical consequences -- Methods of justifying a normative ethical theory.…”
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Conversations in philosophy : crossing the boundaries

Table of Contents: “…Caribbean philosophy -- pt. IV. Meta-ethics and ethical issues.…”
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Constructivism in ethics

Table of Contents: “…1 Some issues worth worrying about; 2 Kinds of meta-ethical constructivism; 3 The characterization of meta-ethical constructivism; 4 Meta-ethical constructivism and realism; 5 Meta-ethical constructivism and moral naturalism; 6 Non-constructivist sister theories; 7 Prospects for blockbuster arguments; 8 Conclusion; CHAPTER Six Constructivism and practical knowledge; 1 Two accounts of the moral capacity; 2 A constructivist alternative?…”
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Concept of Justice and Equality. by Saadé, Eliane, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…2.6 Pogge's Critique of the Cohenian Meta-Ethical Method 3 A Meta-Ethical Theory: Cohen's Rescue of Justice ; 3.1 Rescue of Justice from Constructivism ; 3.2 Weak and Strong Defenses ; 3.3 Illustrations ; 3.4 What is not Justice? …”
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Evolutionary intuitionism : a theory of the origin and nature of moral facts by Zamulinski, Brian Edward, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Rejecting adaptationism in ethics -- The design of intuitionistic organisms -- The evolution of intuitionistic organisms -- The moral facts according to evolutionary intuitionism -- Motivation, evasion, and variation -- The meta-ethics of evolutionary intuitionism -- Evaluating evolutionary intuitionism.…”
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Medical tourism : the ethics, regulation, and marketing of health mobility

Table of Contents: “…Introductory context -- pt. 2. Regulation and meta-ethics -- pt. 3. National and regional policy, regulatory and competitive settings -- pt. 4. …”
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Care and respect in bioethics by Dall'Agnol, Darlei

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Care versus respect -- Rethinking the meta-ethical basis of special bioethics -- Rethinking the normative basis of special bioethics -- Towards a common, sharable morality -- Knowing how to care respectfully -- Applying respectful care -- Back to the future -- Final remarks.…”
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Ethics and the Environment : an Introduction. by Jamieson, Dale

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 The environment as an ethical question; 2 Human morality; 3 Meta-ethics; 4 Normative ethics; 5 Humans and other animals; 6 The value of nature; 7 Nature's future; References; Index.…”
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics

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Reclaiming moral agency : the moral philosophy of Albert the Great by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Reclaiming moral agency : the moral philosophy of Albert the Great by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Ethics and the environment : an introduction by Jamieson, Dale

Table of Contents: “…Human morality : The nature and functions of morality ; Challenges to morality ; Amoralism ; Theism ; Relativism ; What these challenges teach us -- 3. Meta-ethics : The structure of the field ; Realism ; Subjectivism ; The sensible center ; Intrinsic value -- 4. …”
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The Moral Philosophy of Bernard Williams. by Perry, Alexandra (Lecturer in philosophy)

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Ethics and values in industrial-organizational psychology by Lefkowitz, Joel

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures/Tables; Series Foreword; 1 Introduction; I Moral Philosophy and Psychology; 2 Meta-Ethics; 3 Normative Ethical Theories: I. Deontology; 4 Normative Ethical Theories: II. …”
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The Development of Ethics, 3 : From Kant to Rawls. by Irwin, Terence

Table of Contents: “…Kant: Morality and the Good; 72. Kant: Meta-Ethical Questions; 73. Hegel: History and Theory; 74. …”
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Morality in times of naturalising the mind. by Lumer, Christoph

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The Oxford handbook of contemporary philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Meta-ethics / Michael Smith -- Normative ethics / Julia Driver -- Moral epistemology / Karen Jones -- Moral psychology / R. …”
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Evolved morality : the biology and philosophy of human conscience

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Evolved morality: The biology and philosophy of human conscience; Section 1: Evolution; Introduction; A history of the altruism-morality debate in biology; The moral consequences of social selection; Natural normativity: The `is' and `ought' of animal behavior; Section 2: Meta-ethics; Introduction; Empiricism and normative ethics: What do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics?…”
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The Routledge Companion to Ethics. by Skorupski, John

Table of Contents: “…BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Part I: HISTORY; 1 ETHICAL THOUGHT IN CHINA; 2 ETHICAL THOUGHT IN INDIA; 3 SOCRATES AND PLATO; 4 ARISTOTLE; 5 LATER ANCIENT ETHICS; 6 THE ARABIC TRADITION; 7 EARLY MODERN NATURAL LAW; 8 HOBBES; 9 ETHICS AND REASON; 10 ETHICS AND SENTIMENT: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson; 11 HUME; 12 ADAM SMITH; 13 UTILITARIANISM TO BENTHAM; 14 KANT; 15 HEGEL; 16 JOHN STUART MILL; 17 SIDGWICK, GREEN, AND BRADLEY; 18 NIETZSCHE; 19 PRAGMATIST MORAL PHILOSOPHY; 20 EXISTENTIALISM; 21 HEIDEGGER; Part II: META-ETHICS.…”
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Peter Singer under fire : the moral iconoclast faces his critics

Table of Contents: “…/ David Fagelson -- Ethical theory. Singer's unstable meta-ethics / Michael Huemer ; Philosophical presuppositions of Practical ethics / Marcus Duwell ; Separateness, suffering, and moral theory / David Schmidtz ; Singer on moral theory / Jan Narveson ; Animal liberationist bites dog / Beryl Lieff Benderly.…”

Caring science as sacred science by Watson, Jean, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Original text on caring science -- Transpersonal caring and unitary views of science -- Extant caring theories as metaphysical, meta-ethical, meta-narrative to guide caring science -- Existential crisis in science and human sciences: continuing journey toward caring science -- Working assumptions for caring science -- Metaphysics and science: can there be a re/union? …”
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Interpreting Suárez : critical essays

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The Principle of Sufficient Reason : a Reassessment by Pruss, Alexander R.

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Respect for persons : a philosophical analysis of the moral, political and religious idea of the supreme worth of the individual person by Downie, R. S. (Robert Silcock), Telfer, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Respect for Persons and Meta-Ethics…”
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Naturalism and normativity

Table of Contents: “…/ Mario De Caro and Alberto Voltolini -- Part II: Philosophy and the natural sciences -- Science and philosophy / Hilary Putnam -- Why scientific realism may invite relativism / Carol Rovane -- Part III: Philosophy and the human sciences -- Taking the human sciences seriously / David Macarthur -- Reasons and causes revisited / Peter Menzies -- Part IV: Meta-ethics and normativity -- Metaphysics and morals / T.M. …”
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Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics by Cohen, Andrew I.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Issues of Life and Death -- Issues in Justice -- Issues of Privacy and the Good -- Issues of Cosmospolitanism and Community -- Ethical Theory -- CHAPTER ONE: Theories of Ethics -- Case Ethics -- Normative Ethical Theory -- Meta-ethics -- Contractarianism/Contractualism -- Contractarianism -- Contractualism -- Consequentialism -- Deontology -- Virtue Theory -- CHAPTER TWO: The Wrong of Abortion -- Human Embryos and Fetuses are Complete (though Immature) Human Beings…”
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Transcendental Arguments in Moral Theory

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The Routledge companion to ethics

Table of Contents: “…Irwin -- Nietzsche / Maudmarie Clark -- Pragmatist moral philosophy / Alan Ryan -- Existentialism / Jonathan Webber -- Heidegger /Stephen Mulhall -- Meta-ethics -- Ethics, religion, science / Simon Blackburn -- Freedom and responsibility / Randolph Clarke -- Reasons for action / Robert Audi -- Open question arguments / Thomas Baldwin -- Realism and its alternatives / Peter Railton -- Non-cognitivism / Alex Miller -- Error theory and fictionalism / Nadeem Hussain -- Cognitivism without realism / Andrew Fisher -- Relativism / Nick Sturgeon -- Ideas and methods from outside ethics -- Social anthropology / James Laidlaw -- Psychology / Jesse Prinz -- Biology / Michael Ruse -- Formal methods in ethics / Erik Carlson -- Ethics and law / John Gardner -- Perspectives in ethics -- Reasons, values and morality / Simon Robertson -- Consequentialism / Brad Hooker -- Contemporary kantian ethics / Andrews Reath -- Intuitionism / Philip Stratton-Lake -- Virtue ethics / Michael Slote -- Contractualism / Rahul Kumar -- Contemporary natural law theory / Anthony J. …”

Philosophy. by Warburton, Nigel

Table of Contents: “…Criticisms of utilitarianismNegative utilitarianism; Criticism of negative utilitarianism; Rule utilitarianism; Virtue theory; Criticisms of virtue theory; Applied ethics; Ethics and meta-ethics; Naturalism; Criticisms of naturalism; Moral relativism; Criticisms of moral relativism; Emotivism; Criticisms of emotivism; Conclusion; Further reading; 3 Animals; Animal suffering; Criticism of animal suffering view; Criticism of Descartes on animal pain; Speciesism; Arguments for speciesism; Anti-speciesism; Criticism of anti-speciesism; Do animals have rights?…”
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Interpreting in a changing landscape : selected papers from Critical Link 6. by Schäffner, Christina

Table of Contents: “…Moral sentiments and meta-ethics; 5. Virtue ethics and the Massachusetts code; References; Role playing "Pumpkin"; 1. …”
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Narrative ethics

Table of Contents: “…; TWO Narratology, Ethical Turns, Circularities, and a Meta-EthicalWay Out; THREE Ethics, the Diachronization of Narratology, and the Margins of Unreliable Narration; Part Two: ETHICS AND READING; FOUR The Problem of Narratives in the Bible: Moral Issues and Suggested Reading Strategies; FIVE Reading Fiction: Voyeurism without Shame?…”
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Moral dilemmas, identity, and our moral condition : a guide for the ethically perplexed by Perry, Michael S., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Morals; Ethics vs. Meta-Ethics; Reasonable and Rational; "Ought to Do" and "Ought to Be" Norms; Reduction vs. …”
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Integral Philosophy : the Common Logical Roots of Anthropology, Politics, Language, and Spirituality. by Heinrichs, Johannes

Table of Contents: “…Belief and insightFinal remarks to a new spiritual pedagogy; Chapter 8 Ontology; Historical introduction; "Being" as the center in the structure of senseelements; Two different pairs of opposites; Reflection-theoretical sketch of regional ontologies; Sighting further ontological tasks in using the "wand of analogy"; Final comment on the question of immortality; Chapter 9 Meta-Ethics; The knowledge dependency of ethical reflection; What means moral goodness? …”
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Crimes against women

Table of Contents: “…The laws governing crimes against women constituting Obligatio Erga Omnes / Farhad Malekian -- The human rights design: a critique of "universality" in a patriarchal world / Ruchi Anand -- Ethical and meta-ethical approaches to violence against women / Angèle Kremer-Marietti -- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (2002): the impact of the coalition of women's groups / Cenap Cakmak -- Rape and other sexual violence against women and girls in armed conflict: a legal look at the issues / Eileen Servidio -- Defining rape in conflict-affected areas / Robynn Collins -- Wartime rape in the Congo / Stefan Kirchner -- Imperial Japan and its "comfort women" / David Wingate Pike -- Women SS-guards in concentration camps in Nazi Germany / Elissa Mailänder Koslov -- Women in prisoners' brothels in Nazi Germany / Brigitte Halbmayr -- The HIV-antidote myth and infant rape in South Africa / Tomoyuki (Tom) Hashimoto and Ashley Hughes -- Rape among the Shona in Zimbabwe / Tyanai Charamba -- Domestic, community and state-sponsored violence in Nigeria / J. …”
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The common law of obligations : divergence and unity

Table of Contents: “…The Position ; IV. Topography of Meta-Ethics ; V. Possibility of Inter-Jurisdictional Conversation ; VI. …”
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Fundraising Principles and Practice. by Sargeant, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…Specialization in Fundraising OccupationsSpecialization in Professional Associations; Looking to the Future; Knowledge Generation; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge-Based Education; Summary; Discussion Questions; References; 3 Fundraising Ethics; Objectives; Introduction; What Is Ethics?; Meta-ethics; Normative Ethics; Applied Ethics; Pressure in Fundraising: An Ethical Case; Normative Fundraising Ethics; Trustism; Donorcentrism; Service of Philanthropy; Rights-Balancing Fundraising Ethics; Summary; Discussion Questions; References; 4 Individual Giving Behavior; Objectives; Introduction.…”
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Liberal perfectionism : the reasons that goodness gives by Couto, Alexandra, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…4.6 The Service and Practical Reason Argument: The Explicit Version4.7 An Objection to the Service and Practical Reason Argument: Agentneutral vs Agent-relative Reasons; 4.7.1 The Objection; 4.7.2 Agent-relative Reasons in our Lives; 4.8 The Revised Service and Practical Reason Argument; 4.9 A Meta-ethical Objection; 4.10 An Objection to the Service Conception of Authority; 4.11 Conclusion; 5 The Consistency Argument; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Charles Taylor's Argument; 5.3 Vinit Haksar's Argument; 5.4 The Consistency Argument; 5.5 The Protection of Individual Rights and Interests.…”
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