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Author : L. Syd M. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The Ethics Of Uncertainty written by L. Syd M. Johnson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Medical categories.
"Consciousness isn't a thing you can poke a stick at. It's not a natural kind, like a bit of quartz, or quarks, or water. Like "life," which can be attributed to many entities, but is not a thing with reality apart from living entities, consciousness can be attributed to conscious entities without being some further thing or fact, some mysterious, mentalizing "force" that can exist without conscious entities. It is manifested in conscious states and creatures, but isn't a thing in and of itself. One of the enduring puzzles about consciousness and conscious states is how they, as apparently mental, nonphysical states, can manifest in a physical entity like a brain. We can point to a physical bit of brain, to a neuron, or a structure like the thalamus, but we can't locate the consciousness within that bit of brain or its neural cells"--
Moral Uncertainty
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Author : William MacAskill
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020
Moral Uncertainty written by William MacAskill and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Business & Economics categories.
About the bookToby Ord try to fill this gap. They argue that there are distinctive norms that govern how one ought to make decisions and defend an information-sensitive account of how to make such decisions. They do so by developing an analogy between moral uncertainty and social choice, noting that different moral views provide different amounts of information regarding our reasons for action, and arguing that the correct account of decision-making under moral uncertainty must be sensitive to that. Moral Uncertainty also tackles the problem of how to make intertheoretic comparisons, and addresses the implications of their view for metaethics and practical ethics. Very often we are uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We do not know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, how strong our duties are to improve the lives of distant strangers, or how to think about the ethics of bringing new people into existence. But we still need to act. So how should we make decisions in the face of such uncertainty? Though economists and philosophers have extensively studied the issue of decision-making in the face of uncertainty about matters of fact, the question of decision-making given fundamental moral uncertainty has been neglected. In Moral Uncertainty, philosophers William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist, and Toby Ord try to fill this gap. They argue that there are distinctive norms that govern how one ought to make decisions and defend an information-sensitive account of how to make such decisions. They do so by developing an analogy between moral uncertainty and social choice, noting that different moral views provide different amounts of information regarding our reasons for action, and arguing that the correct account of decision-making under moral uncertainty must be sensitive to that. Moral Uncertainty also tackles the problem of how to make intertheoretic comparisons, and addresses the implications of their view for metaethics and practical ethics.
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Author : L. Syd M. Johnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Ethics Of Uncertainty written by L. Syd M. Johnson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Electronic books categories.
This is the first book-length, empirically-informed philosophical treatment of disorders of consciousness. The book puts forward a compelling ethical approach focused on uncertainty, epistemic and ethical risk, and justice. Bioethicist L. Syd M Johnson rejects longstanding ethical dogmas about the significance of consciousness for moral standing and personhood, and provides a new approach to medical decision making in the presence of uncertainty. With applications to medical decisions and beyond, this ethical approach enables surrogate decision makers facing fraught and risky choices to fulfil.
Ethics And Uncertainty
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Author : William B. Greer
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Ethics And Uncertainty written by William B. Greer and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This study explores how two economists, who both placed "uncertainty" at the heart of their economic theories, came to drastically different and opposing policy recommendations. The volume illustrates the important lesson to be learned from Keynes and Knight.
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Author : Michael Anker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-01
The Ethics Of Uncertainty written by Michael Anker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01 with Philosophy categories.
Anker asks what it means to live, act, decide, and respond responsibly, in the aporia of freedom --a world without absolute measure of uncertainty.
Moral Uncertainty And Its Consequences
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Author : Ted Lockhart
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-20
Moral Uncertainty And Its Consequences written by Ted Lockhart and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-20 with Philosophy categories.
We are often uncertain how to behave morally in complex situations. In this controversial study, Ted Lockhart contends that moral philosophy has failed to address how we make such moral decisions. Adapting decision theory to the task of decision-making under moral uncertainly, he proposes that we should not always act how we feel we ought to act, and that sometimes we should act against what we feel to be morally right. Lockhart also discusses abortion extensively and proposes new ways to deal with the ethical and moral issues which surround it.
Environmental Ethics And Uncertainty
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Author : Whitney A. Bauman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-06
Environmental Ethics And Uncertainty written by Whitney A. Bauman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-06 with Nature categories.
This book offers a multidisciplinary environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption. This book synthesizes the incredible complexity of the problem and the necessity of action in response, highlighting the unambiguous problem facing humanity in the 21st century, but arguing that it is essential to develop an ethics housed in ambiguity in response. Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty is divided into theoretical and applied chapters, with the theoretical sections engaging in dialogue with scholars from a variety of disciplines, while the applied chapters offer insight from 20th century activists who demonstrate and/or illuminate the theory, including Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson, and Frank Lloyd Wright. This book is written for scholars and students in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies and the environmental humanities, and will appeal to courses in religion, philosophy, ethics, politics, and social theory.
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Author : R. John Elford
language : en
Publisher: One World (UK)
Release Date : 2000
The Ethics Of Uncertainty written by R. John Elford and has been published by One World (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Religion categories.
This radical new assessment of Christian ethics offers a unique perspective on the relationship between Christianity and moral decision-making in an increasingly secular world.
Seven Modes Of Uncertainty
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Author : C. Namwali Serpell
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-30
Seven Modes Of Uncertainty written by C. Namwali Serpell and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-30 with Education categories.
Literature is uncertain. Literature is good for us. These two ideas are often taken for granted. But what is the relationship between literature’s capacity to perplex and its ethical value? Seven Modes of Uncertainty contends that literary uncertainty is crucial to ethics because it pushes us beyond the limits of our experience.
Love S Uncertainty
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Author : Teresa Kuan
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Love S Uncertainty written by Teresa Kuan and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Social Science categories.
Love’s Uncertainty explores the hopes and anxieties of urban, middle-class parents in contemporary China. Combining long-term ethnographic research with analyses of popular child-rearing manuals, television dramas, and government documents, Teresa Kuan bears witness to the dilemmas of ordinary Chinese parents, who struggle to reconcile new definitions of good parenting with the reality of limited resources. Situating these parents’ experiences in the historical context of state efforts to improve "population quality," Love’s Uncertainty reveals how global transformations are expressed in the most intimate of human experiences. Ultimately, the book offers a meditation on the nature of moral agency, examining how people discern, amid the myriad contingencies of life, the boundary between what can and cannot be controlled.