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  • 1
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    A web of our own making : the nature of digital formation (2023)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781009324793 , 9781009324779
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 295 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barba-Kay, Antón, 1983 - A web of our own making
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Internet Social aspects ; Social change ; World Wide Web Philosophy ; Internet Philosophy ; Internet ; Digitalisierung ; Cyberspace ; Sozialer Wandel ; Philosophie
    Abstract: "This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical account of digital technology. It offers a detailed explanation of how the internet and digital technology is transforming culture, politics, aesthetics, and human relationships. It argues that digital technology is in fact different in kind from all prior technologies: the first "natural technology.""--
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  • 2
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    Understanding race (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781009052450
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 178 Seiten) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Understanding life
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    DDC: 305.8
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    Keywords: Race ; Human evolution
    Abstract: The human species is very young, but in a short time it has acquired some striking, if biologically superficial, variations across the planet. As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities. Starting with a consideration of evolution and the mechanisms of diversification in nature, this book moves to an examination of attitudes to human variation throughout history, showing that it was only with the advent of slavery that considerations of human variation became politicized. It then embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies, demonstrating how individualized genomics is a much more effective approach to clinical treatments. It also shows how racial stratification does nothing to help us understand the phenomenon of human variation, at either the genomic or physical levels.
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  • 3
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    The Cambridge handbook of the ethics of ageing (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108861168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 303 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge handbooks in philosophy
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    DDC: 305.26
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    Keywords: Aging / Moral and ethical aspects ; Older people ; Middle age ; Altern ; Lebensführung ; Sozialethik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Altern ; Sozialethik ; Altern ; Lebensführung
    Abstract: We're all getting older from the moment we're born. Ageing is a fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life. Yet in ethics, not much work is done on the questions surrounding ageing: how do diachronic features of ageing and the lifespan contribute to the overall value of life? How do time, change, and mortality impact on questions of morality and the good life? And how ought societies to respond to issues of social justice and the good, balancing the interests of generations and age cohorts? In this Cambridge Handbook, the first book-length attempt to stake this terrain, leading moral philosophers from a range of sub-fields and regions set out their approaches to the conceptual and ethical understanding of ageing. The volume makes an important contribution to significant debates about the implications of ageing for individual well-being, social policy and social justice
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    Values in science (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781009052597
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (74 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of science
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    DDC: 303.483
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    Keywords: Wertphilosophie ; Wert ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie ; Wissenschaft ; Science / Social aspects ; Science / Philosophy ; Values ; Wert ; Wissenschaft ; Wertphilosophie ; Wissenschaftsphilosophie
    Abstract: This Element introduces the philosophical literature on values in science by examining four questions: (1) How do values influence science? (2) Should we actively incorporate values in science? (3) How can we manage values in science responsibly? (4) What are some next steps for those who want to help promote responsible roles for values in science? It explores arguments for and against the "value-free ideal" for science (i.e., the notion that values should be excluded from scientific reasoning) and concludes that it should be rejected. Nonetheless, this does not mean that value influences are always acceptable. The Element explores a range of strategies for distinguishing between appropriate and inappropriate value influences. It concludes by proposing an approach for managing values in science that relies on justifying, prioritising, and implementing norms for scientific research practices and institutions
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jun 2022)
    DOI: 10.1017/9781009052597
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  • 5
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    Body image and eating disorders : an anthropological and psychological overview (2022)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781009082983
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 168 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.4/613
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    Keywords: Body image / Psychological aspects ; Eating disorders / Psychological aspects
    Abstract: One of the paradoxes of our current era is that only 10% of obese or overweight people are actually dieting, whereas nearly 20% of the remaining population are trying to lose weight, even if they do not need to. This volume looks into our contemporary relationship with food by inserting current body image and eating disorders, like orthorexia and bigorexia, into a broader, historical overview. Gabrielli and Irtelli combine their knowledge of psychoanalysis and anthropology with scientific research and clinical experience to create this truly interdisciplinary work. Their study uses psychoanalytical theories about our 'hyper-modern' times to trace the impact that mass media has on individuals, families and societies. It explores various 'food tribes' and exposes the contradictions of today's mass media that advertise fitness and dieting alongside increasingly tastier and accessible foods. The work helps us to understand our highly social relationship with our bodies and what we eat
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022)
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  • 6
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    A philosopher looks at work (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108946216
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 178 pages)
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    DDC: 306.36
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    CC 7750
    Keywords: Work / Philosophy ; Labor / Philosophy
    Abstract: Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary. Geuss explores our concept of work and its origins in industrial production, the incentives and compulsions which societies use to get us to work, and the powerful hold which the work ethic has over so many of us. He also looks at dissatisfaction with work - which is as old as work itself - and at various radical proposals for doing away with it, and at the seemingly irreversible growth of unemployment as a result of mechanisation. His book will interest anyone who wishes to understand the place of work in our world. This new series offers short and personal perspectives by expert thinkers on topics that we all encounter in our everyday lives
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108946216
    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/philosopher-looks-at-work/DBFA270AF5F6E5611A1A23444108CD80
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  • 7
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    State and family in China : filial piety and its modern reform (2021)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781108974479
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 295 Seiten)
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    DDC: 306.850951
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    CI 8520
    Keywords: Geschichte 1644-1949 ; Families / China / History ; Family policy / China / History ; Filial piety / China / History ; Konfuzianismus ; Familie ; Frömmigkeit ; Staat ; China ; China ; Konfuzianismus ; Familie ; Staat ; Frömmigkeit ; Geschichte 1644-1949
    Abstract: In Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family in China, Yue Du examines the relationship between politics and intergenerational family relations in China from the Qing period to 1949, focusing on changes in family law, parent-child relationships, and the changing nature of the Chinese state during this period. This book highlights how the Qing dynasty treated the state-sponsored parent-child hierarchy as the axis around which Chinese family and political power relations were constructed and maintained. It shows how following the fall of the Qing in 1911, reform of filial piety law in the Republic of China became the basis of state-directed family reform, playing a central role in China's transition from empire to nation-state
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  • 8
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    Creative conflict in African American thought : Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey (2004)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511606717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 308 Seiten)
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    DDC: 305.896/073/00922
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    Keywords: Douglass, Frederick / 1818-1895 / Political and social views ; Crummell, Alexander / 1819-1898 / Political and social views ; Washington, Booker T. / 1856-1915 / Political and social views ; Du Bois, W. E. B. / (William Edward Burghardt) / 1868-1963 / Political and social views ; Garvey, Marcus / 1887-1940 / Political and social views ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1800-1970 ; Philosophie ; Schwarze. USA ; African Americans / Intellectual life / 19th century ; African Americans / Intellectual life / 20th century ; Conflict management / United States / Philosophy ; African American intellectuals / Biography ; African American political activists / Biography ; Schwarze ; Geistesleben ; USA ; USA ; Biografie ; Biographie ; Biografie ; USA ; Schwarze ; Geistesleben ; Geschichte 1800-1970
    Abstract: Building upon his previous work and using Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition as a model, Professor Moses has revised and brought together in this book essays that focus on the complexity of, and contradictions in, the thought of five major African-American intellectuals: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois and Marcus M. Garvey. In doing so, he challenges both popular and scholarly conceptions of them as villains or heroes. In analyzing the intellectual struggles and contradictions of these five dominant personalities with regard to individual morality and collective reform, Professor Moses shows how they contributed to strategies for black improvement and puts them within the context of other currents of American thought, including Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, Social Darwinism, and progressivism
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Struggle, challenge, and history , Reality and contradiction , Frederick Douglass : superstar and public intellectual , Where honor is due : Frederick Douglass and representative Black man , Writing freely? : Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing , Alexander Crummell and stoic African elitism , Alexander Crummell and Southern Reconstruction , Crummell, hero worship, Du Bois, and presentism , Booker T. Washington and the meanings of progress , Protestant ethic versus conspicuous consumption , W.E.B. Du Bois on religion and art : dynamic contradictions and multiple consciousness , Angel of light and darkness : Du Bois and the meaning of democracy , Du Bois and progressivism : the anticapitalist as elitist , 〈〈The〉〉 birth of tragedy : Garvey's heroic struggles , Becoming history : Garvey and the genius of his age , Rescuing heroes from their admirers : heroic proportions imply brobdingnagian blemishes
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511606717
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  • 9
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss : the formative years (2003)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511803802
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 208 pages)
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Geschichte 1940-1960 ; Ethnologie ; Strukturalismus ; Biografie ; Biografie
    Abstract: Lévi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the formative period of his career, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, where he attempts to define both his own place in anthropology and the place of anthropology in the wider context of the human sciences in France. Through a close reading of key texts, Christopher Johnson provides an introduction to key aspects of Lévi-Strauss' thought, at the same time posing more general questions concerning the construction of theory and the different modes of conceptualization that inform theory. Johnson looks at the ideological and autobiographical dimensions of Lévi-Strauss' work, and demonstrates how the impact of structuralism as an intellectual movement has clearly been greater than the sum of its theoretical parts.
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  • 10
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    The moral foundations of trust (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511614934
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
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    DDC: 302.5
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Gesellschaft ; Trust / Social aspects ; Trust / Moral and ethical aspects ; Social participation ; Trust / United States ; Social participation / United States ; Social values / United States ; Ethik ; Vertrauen ; USA ; Vertrauen ; Ethik
    Abstract: The Moral Foundations of Trust seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers, and why doing so matters. Trust is a moral value that does not depend upon personal experience or on interacting with people in civic groups or informal socializing. Instead, we learn to trust from our parents, and trust is stable over long periods of time. Trust depends on an optimistic world view: the world is a good place and we can make it better. Trusting people are more likely to give through charity and volunteering. Trusting societies are more likely to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor. Trust has been in decline in the United States for over 30 years. The roots of this decline are traceable to declining optimism and increasing economic inequality, which Uslaner supports by aggregate time series in the United States and cross-sectional data across market economies
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    URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/moral-foundations-of-trust/435FF8463168CD17A7AA141644BEA051
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  • 11
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    Practical reasoning in a social world : how we act together (2002)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511487408
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages)
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    DDC: 302.3
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    Keywords: Ethik ; Philosophie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Social sciences / Philosophy ; Reasoning ; Social groups / Moral and ethical aspects ; Individualism / Moral and ethical aspects ; Argumentation ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Argumentation
    Abstract: In this book Keith Graham examines the philosophical assumptions behind the ideas of group membership and loyalty. Drawing out the significance of social context, he challenges individualist views by placing collectivities such as committees, classes or nations within the moral realm. He offers an understanding of the multiplicity of sources which vie for the attention of human beings as they decide how to act, and challenges the conventional division between self-interest and altruism. He also offers a systematic account of the different ways in which individuals can identify with or distance themselves from the groups to which they belong. His study will be of interest to readers in a range of disciplines including philosophy, politics, sociology, law and economics
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Practical reasoning in context -- The indistinctness of persons: causal interconnection -- The indistinctness of persons: the personhood of collectivities -- Practical collective identification and dissociation -- Practical reasoning: sources and constraints -- Practical reasoning and morality -- Conclusion
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  • 12
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    Women and human development : the capabilities approach (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511841286
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 312 pages)
    Series Statement: The Seeley lectures 3
    DDC: 305.42/09172/4
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    Abstract: In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations.
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    Ulysses unbound : studies in rationality, precommitment, and constraints (2000)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511625008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages)
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    DDC: 128/.4
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Psychologie ; Rationalism / Psychological aspects ; Reasoning (Psychology) ; Psychology / Philosophy ; Psychologie ; Freiwilligkeit ; Beschränkung ; Rationalität ; Denken ; Beschränkung ; Freiwilligkeit ; Psychologie ; Denken ; Rationalität
    Abstract: Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book revise and expand the ideas developed in Jon Elster's classic study Ulysses and the Sirens. It is not simply a new edition of the earlier book, though; many of the issues merely touched on before are explored here in much more detail. Elster shows how seemingly disparate examples which limit freedom of action reveal similar patterns, so much so that he proposes a new field of study: constraint theory. The book is written in Elster's characteristically vivid style and will interest professionals and students in philosophy, political science, psychology, and economics
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