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    Harming Future Persons : Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781402056970
    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 35
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Harming future persons
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Constitutional law ; Ethics ; Human genetics ; Law Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Public health laws ; Ethics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Verfassungsrecht ; Humangenetik ; Ethik ; Rechtsphilosophie
    Abstract: This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, from our own future offspring to distant future generations. Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice brings a worse off person into existence in place of a better off but 'nonidentical' person make that choice wrong? We intuitively think we are obligated to treat future persons in accordance with certain stringent standardsroughly those we think apply to our treatment of existing persons. We think we ought to create better lives for at least some future persons when we can do so without making things worse for too many existing or other future persons. We think it would be wrong to engage in risky behaviors today that will have clearly adverse effects for the children we intend one day to conceive. And we think it would be wrong to act today in a way that would turn the Earth of the future into a miserable place. Each of these intuitive points is, however, challenged by the nonidentity problem. That problem arises from the observation that future persons often owe their very existence to choices that appear to make things worse for those same persons. New reproductive technologies, for example, can be both risky and essential to one persons coming into existence in place of a 'nonidentical' other or no one at all. But so can a myriad of other choices, whether made just prior to conception or centuries beforechoices that seem to have nothing to do with procreation but in fact help to determine the timing and manner of conception of any particular future person and thus the identity of that person. Where the persons life is worth living, it is difficult to see how he or she has been harmed, or made worse off, or wronged, by such an identity-determining choice. We then face the full power of the nonidentity problem: if the choice is not bad for the future person it seems most adversely to affect, then on what
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Harming Future Persons: Introduction; Part I Can Bringing a Person into Existence Harm That Person? Can an Act That Harms No One Be Wrong?; 1 The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem; Part II If Bringing a Badly Off Person into Existence is Wrong, is Not Bringing a Well Off Person into Existence Also Wrong?; 2 Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives; 3 Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist; Part III Must an Act Worse for People be Worse for a Particular Person?; 4 Who Cares About Identity?
    Description / Table of Contents: 5 Do Future Persons Presently Have Alternate Possible Identities?6 Rule Consequentialism and Non-identity; Part IV Is the Argument to ""No Harm Done"" Correct? Must an Act that Harms a Person Make that Person Worse Off?; 7 Harming as Causing Harm; 8 Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions; 9 Harming and Procreating; 10 The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When isOne Act Better for a Person than Another?; Part V Is the Morality of Parental Reproductive Choice Special? Can Intentions and Attitudes Make an Act that Harms No One Wrong?
    Description / Table of Contents: 11 Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-identity Problem12 Two Varieties of "Better-For" Judgements; 13 Harms to Future People and Procreative Intentions; Part VI Is the Person Affecting Approach Objectionable Independent of the Nonidentity Problem?; 14 Can the Person Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?; Part VII What are the Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for Law and Public Policy?; 15 Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty; 16 Reparations for U.S. Slavery and Justice Over Time; Name Index; Subject Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0
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    The Ethical Challenges of Academic Administration (2009)
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    ISBN: 9789048128419
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
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    Series Statement: Humanities, Social Science and Law
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Philosophy
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2841-9
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    Beauty's Appeal : Measure and Excess (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402065217
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 97
    DDC: 111.85
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    CB 4300
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    CC 6900
    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Ästhetik
    Abstract: Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature's enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. This collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of the Human Condition. It endeavors to explain the relation of beauty and human existence, and explores the various aspects of beauty.
    Abstract: Beauty fulfils human existence. As it registers in our aesthetic experience, beauty enhances nature's enchantment around us and our inward experience lifting our soul toward moral elevation. Carried by creative imagination (Imaginatio Creatrix), beauty participates in the moulding of the forms of the intellective constitution of the mind in tandem with praxis and seeks deeper enigmas of the real in the labyrinth of the cosmos. Yet with the evolution of human development and in technological inventions, beauty, while suffusing all modalities of experience, seems to undergo transformations and expansion. Are there perduring norms and modalities of beauty or are we carried along blindly by human development? Is there a measure intrinsic to our human ontopoietic unfolding and the growth of human life that we may follow instead of the whim of fancy and excess? The present collection of art-explorations seeks the elemental ties of Human Condition. Together, the authors aim to answer the questions posed above. Papers by: Brian Grassom, Lawrence Kimmel, Gabriel Hindin, John Baldachino, Piero Trupia, Maria Golaszewska, Mariola Sulkowska, Valerie Reed, Max Statkiewicz, Victor Gerald Rivas, Robert D. Sweeney, Raymond J. Wilson III, Tsung-I Dow, Vladimir Marchenkov, Maciej Kaluza, Patricia Trutty-Coohill, Diane G. Scillia, Bruce Ross, James Werner, Elena Stylianou, Arthur Piper, Christopher Wallace, Matti Itkonen, Munir Beken, Andrew J. Svedlow.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Eros/Kalon/Agathos; The Beautiful Recollected; Art After Beauty; The Semantics of Beauty; The Aesthetics of Possibility; Aesthetization of Aesthetic Values?; Shattering Beauty; From Perfect Beauty to a Conscious Life; Von Hildebrands, Father and Son, and the Beautiful; Measure or Excess; Measure and Excess; Harmonious Balance; The Dialectic of the Serious and the Ludic in Myth and Art; The Theater of the Absurd and Reality; Too Much Is Never Enough; Minimalist Art; Dances with Bears; The Re-Emergence of Beauty in Contemporary Technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Beauty and Truth in Science and PhenomenologyAction and the Open Work; Lived Words Re-Revisited; Impenetrable Historiography and Value in Academic Music Composition; Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Mark Rothko's Painting; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6521-7
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    Virtues and Passions in Literature : Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402064227
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook Of Phenomenological Research 96
    DDC: 801.9
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    CB 4300
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    CC 7200
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    CC 7250
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    EC 2430
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Phenomenology ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Literatur ; Wert ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.
    Abstract: Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold. The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Ger
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre; Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero; Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought; Virtues of the Heart; The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean; Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead; Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues; Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues; Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium; The Virtue of Responsibility
    Description / Table of Contents: Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"Beyond Adaptation; Between the Ironic and the Irenic; Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia; Art and Awareness; The Image in the History of Thought; The Narrative Model; Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585-1672; Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6422-7
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    Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care : An International Perspective (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402058417
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International Library Of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 36
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Autonomy and Human Rights in Health Care
    DDC: 340
    RVK:
    PQ 2100
    Keywords: Ethics ; medicine Public health laws ; Philosophy (General) ; Public health laws ; Internationality ; Personal Autonomy ; Bioethics ; Human Rights ; Cultural Diversity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gesundheitsrecht ; Menschenrecht ; Internationales Recht
    Abstract: This book offers a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to ground a universal bioethics in the context of the conflicted world of combative cultures and perspectives.
    Abstract: Autonomy and Human Rights in Healthcare: An International Perspective is a group of essays published in memory of David Thomasma, one of the leading humanists in the field of bioethics during the twentieth century. A pioneer in the field of multidisciplinary research, having integrated major theological and philosophical traditions in the west with modern science, Thomasma was a role model to the authors who have devoted essays to his major avenues of inquiry. The authors represent many different countries and disciplines throughout the globe. The volume deals with the pressing issue of how to
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Evolving Bioethics and International Human Rights; Dignity, Rights, Health Care, and Human Flourishing; Human Rights: The Ethics Of Globalization; Human Rights And The Right To Health Care; Religion, International Human Rights And Women's Health: Synthesizing Principles And Politics; The Limitations And Accomplishments Of Autonomy As A Basic Principle In Bioethics And Biolaw; Person And Human Being In Bioethics And Biolaw; Welfare Rights And Health Care; Autonomy And The Rights Of Minors; Domestic Violence
    Description / Table of Contents: Balancing Autonomy And Traditional Values In Treating Terminally Ill Patients: Towards Locating The Right Questions For JapanCulture, Community Or Rights; Bioethics Between Nature And Culture; Medical Practice As The Primary Context For Medical Ethics; Euthanasia And Multiculturalism; International Law And Genetic Counselling; International Perspective On Organ Donation; Justice In The Distribution Of Transplant Organs; Human Cloning And Human Dignity; Accessing Health Care Resources: Economic, Medical, Ethical And Socio-Legal Challenges
    Description / Table of Contents: Mental Health Rights: The Relation Between Constitution And BioethicsThe "Vulnerability" Quagmire In International Research; Human Rights, Health Care And Biomedical Innovation: Confronting The Research Imperative; The Rights To Die And The Duty To Save: A Reflection On Ethical Presuppositions In Suicide Research; The Right To Bodily Security Vis-À-Vis The Needs Of Others; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5841-7
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    Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402062070
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 93
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    Parallel Title: Print version Artificial Nutrition and Hydration : The New Catholic Debate
    DDC: 174.2
    RVK:
    BK 6120
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    BL 2242
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    BT 2062
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    CC 7264
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Religion (General) ; Catholicism ; Fluid Therapy ethics ; Religion and Medicine ; Nutritional Support ethics ; Persistent Vegetative State therapy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Medizinische Ethik ; Künstliche Ernährung ; Moraltheologie
    Abstract: Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. This collection of essays featuring some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope's statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
    Abstract: Pope John Paul II surprised much of the medical world in 2004 with his strongly worded statement insisting that patients in a persistent vegetative state should be provided with nutrition and hydration. While many Catholic bioethicists defended the Pope s claim that the life of all human beings, even those in a persistent vegetative state or a coma, was worth protecting, others argued that the Pope s position marked a shift from the traditional Catholic teaching on the withdrawal of medical treatment at the end of life. The debate among Catholic bioethicists over the Pope s statement only grew more intense during the controversy surrounding Terry Schiavo s death in 2005, as bioethicists on both sides of the debate argued about the legitimacy of removing her feeding tubes. This collection of essays by some of the most prominent Catholic bioethicists addresses the Pope s statements, the moral issues surrounding artificial feeding and hydration, the refusal of treatment, and the ethics of care for those at the end of life.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Why do Unresponsive Patients Still Matter?; Are We Morally Obliged to Feed PVS Patients Till Natural Death?; Caring for Persons in the "Persistent Vegetative State" and Pope John Paul II's March 20 2004 Address "On Life-Sustaining Treatments and the Vegetative State"; Food and Fluids: Human Law, Human Rights and Human Interests; Quality of Life and Assisted Nutrition; Towards Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Understanding the Ethics of Artificially Providing Food and Water
    Description / Table of Contents: The Ethics of Pope John Paul's Allocution on Care of the PVS Patient: A Response to J.L.A. GarciaReflections on the Papal Allocution Concerning Care For PVS Patients; The Papal Allocution Concerning Care for PVS Patients: A Reply to Fr. O'Rourke; Response to Patrick Lee; The Morality of Tube Feeding PVS Patients: A Critique of the View of Kevin O'Rourke, O.P.; Ten Errors Regarding End of Life Issues, and Especially Artificial Nutrition and Hydration; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6207-0
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    Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation (2008)
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    ISBN: 9781402062810
    Language: English
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    DDC: 179.7
    RVK:
    CC 7620
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    BL 6300
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    PI 3600
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Law Medicine ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Menschenwürde
    Abstract: The idea of human dignity is central to any reflection on the nature of human worth, and has become a key concept in international and national law, in medical ethics, and in much philosophical and political theory. However, the idea is a complex one that also takes on many different forms. This collection explores the idea of human dignity as it arises within these many different domains, opening up the possibility of a multidisciplinary conversation that illuminates the concept itself, as well as the idea of the human to which it stands in an essential relation. The book is not only an intri
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction to a Conversation; Human Dignity and Human Worth; Human Dignity and Human Being; On Human Dignity: Fragments of an Exploration; Two Conceptions of Dignity: Honour and Self-Determination; Human Dignity and Charity; Human Dignity: Functions and Meanings; A Brief History of Human Dignity: Idea and Application; A Journey Towards Understanding: True and False Dignity; The Question of Dignity: Doubts and Loves and a Whisper from Where the Ruined House Once Stood; Religion and Dignity: Assent and Dissent; Giving the Past Its Dignity; Dignity and Indignity
    Description / Table of Contents: Human Dignity and the LawOn the International Legal Aspects of Human Dignity; Doing Justice to Dignity in the Criminal Law; Human Dignity: The New Phase in International Law; Dignity and Health; Human Dignity: The Perspective of a Gynaecological Oncologist; The Social Origins of Dignity in Medical Care at the End of Life; Dying with Dignity: The Story Reveals Its Meaning; Back Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6281-0
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    The Moral Wager : Evolution and Contract (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402058554
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 108
    DDC: 08.38
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Evolution (Biology) ; Mathematics ; Ethik ; Rationalität
    Abstract: This book illuminates and sharpens moral theory, by analyzing the evolutionary dynamics of interpersonal relations in a variety of games. We discover that successful players in evolutionary games operate as if following this piece of normative advice: Don't do unto others without their consent. From this advice, some significant implications for moral theory follow. First, we cannot view morality as a categorical imperative. Secondly, we cannot hope to offer rational justification for adopting moral advice. This is where Glaucon and Adeimantus went astray: they wanted a proof of the benefits of morality in every single case. That is not possible. Moral constraint is a bad bet taken in and of itself. But there is some good news: moral constraint is a good bet when examined statistically.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Irrealism; Against Moral Categoricity; Self-Interest; Rationality's Failure; Evolutionary Fit; Consent Theory; Concerned Parties; Suffering and Indifference; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5855-4
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    The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Perspective (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402057427
    Language: English
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    DDC: 378.125
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    AL 34000
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    AL 91900
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    CX 4500
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    DM 3000
    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Education Psychology ; Hochschulbildung ; College ; Collegeunterricht
    Abstract: Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21stCentury is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students.
    Abstract: Pivotal to the transformation of higher education in the 21st Century is the nature of pedagogy and its role in advancing the aims of various stakeholders. This book brings together pre-eminent scholars from Australia, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA to critically assess teaching and learning issues that cut across most disciplines. In addressing long-standing and newly emerging issues, the researchers examine the scientific evidence on what constitutes effective teaching in college classrooms, on the psychometric integrity of measures of teaching effectiveness, and on the use of such measures for tenure, promotion, and salary decisions. Systematically explored throughout the book is the avowed linkage between classroom teaching and motivation, learning, and performance outcomes in students. In so doing, the book deals with the nexus between knowledge production by researchers and knowledge utility for end-users made up of classroom instructors, department heads, deans, directors, and policymakers. The book will appeal to researchers interested in teaching and learning, faculty members developing evidence-based pedagogical practices, academic administrators and policymakers responsible for instituting teaching and learning protocols, and faculty development officers promoting the effective teaching practices.
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5742-7_5_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_1_Part_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_2_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_3_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_4_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_1_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_6_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_2_Part_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_7_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_8_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_9_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_10_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_11_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_3_Part_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_12_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5742-7_13_OnlinePDF.pdf
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5742-3
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    University Dynamics and European Integration (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059711
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 19
    DDC: 378.4
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Political science ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Hochschulreform ; Europäische Integration ; Europäische Union ; Hochschulpolitik ; Bologna-Prozess ; Lissabon-Strategie
    Abstract: "The European University is under stress. It has become commonplace to argue that radical reforms are needed. The claim is that while environments are changing rapidly, European universities do not learn, adapt and reform themselves fast enough. Reform plans comprise the purposes of universities, i.e. definitions of what the University is, can be and should be, criteria for quality and success, the kinds of research, education., services and innovation to be produced, and for whom. Reform plans also include the universities' organization and financial basis, their governance structures, who should influence the future dynamics of universities, and according to what principles. In contrast, it can be argued that the currently dominant reform rhetoric is only one among several competing visions and understandings of the University and its dynamics. What is at stake is ""what kind of University for what kind of society"" and which, and whose values, interests and beliefs should be given priority in University governance and reforms? This book explores the visions underlying the attempts to reform the European University as well as two European integration processes (""Bologna"" and ""Lisbon"") affecting University dynamics. Above all, the book presents a framework for analyzing ongoing ""modernization"" reforms and reform debates that take place at various governance levels, not least the European level, and a long-term research agenda."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; European Debates on the Knowledge Institution: The Modernization of the University at the European Level; The Institutional Dynamics of the European University; A Rule-governed Community of Scholars: The Humboldt Vision in the History of the European University; An Instrument for National Political Agendas: The Hierarchical Vision; An Internal Representative System: The Democratic Vision; A Service Enterprise: The Market Vision; The Bologna Process: An Intergovernmental Policy Perspective; The Lisbon Process: A Supranational Policy Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: "Europe of Knowledge:" Search for a New PactBack Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5971-1
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    Disciplines and Doctorates (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402053122
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 16
    DDC: 378.12
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Education, Higher ; Education Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Promotion ; USA ; Promotionsstudium ; Curriculum ; USA ; Promotion
    Abstract: Generic advice in earning a PhD usually falls short of relevance, because of differences in the degree path from one discipline to another. Yet doctoral candidates and their supervisors know this process is governed by protocols and parameters - often implicit - that must be understood and mastered. This book explores these protocols, drawing upon a large-scale study of Australian universities, and also compares doctoral programs in different national systems.
    Abstract: Provides an analysis of the experience of learning to make knowledge at the level of the research doctorate. This book draws principally upon an empirical investigation at a number of Australian universities. It also provides a comparative account of doctoral study in different national systems
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Doctoral Study and Disciplinary Learning; Socialisation; Induction Processes; Exploring the Research Environment; Coping in the Arena; Linguistic Acceptability; Achieving Socialisation; Improving the Doctoral Experience
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5312-6
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    A Life (Un)Worthy of Living : Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402052187
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 34
    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Hashiloni-Dolev, Yael A life (un)worthy of living
    DDC: 362.1983200943
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Reproductive Medicine ; Human genetics ; Sociology ; Philosophy (General) ; Reproductive Techniques ; Genetic Screening ; Genetic Screening ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Prenatal Diagnosis ; Reproductive Techniques ; Israel ; Humangenetik ; Reproduktionsmedizin ; Ethik ; Deutschland ; Humangenetik ; Reproduktionsmedizin ; Ethik
    Abstract: This book presents the findings of a study into the social shaping of reproductive genetics in Germany and Israel. The study reveals dramatic differences between German and Israeli societies in addressing the question of a life (un)worthy of living. A close analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates controversies over reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way.
    Abstract: Based on a variety of empirical materials the study reveals dramatic differences between the way that the German and Israeli societies address the question of a life (un)worthy of living: while in Germany, social, cultural, religious and legal conditions restrict the selection of embryos based on prenatal diagnosis, in Israel they strongly encourage it. A close comparative analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the delicate balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates the controversy around reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way. The study is also innovative in its use of contemporary social theory concerning the politics of life in comprehending the differences between two societies positioned at opposite extremes in their adoption of reproductive genetics. It thus offers an original cross-cultural discussion concerning present-day techno-medical manipulations of life itself.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Theoretical Background; Methodology; Getting to Know the Field of Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany; Genetic Counselors' Moral Practices; Abortions on Embryopathic Grounds: Policy and Practice in Israel and Germany; Sex Chromosome Anomalies (SCAs) in Israel and Germany: Assessing "Birth Defects" and edical Risks According to the Importance of Fertility*; "Wrongful Life", in the eyes of the law, the counselors and the disabled; The Conflicts Between Individuals, Families and Society, as Well as Between Different Family Members, Embodied in Reproductive Genetics
    Description / Table of Contents: Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5218-9
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    Constitutionalism and Legal Reasoning (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055959
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    Series Statement: Law and philosophy library v. 79
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of law ; Political science Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Politisches System ; Verfassungsmäßigkeit ; Rechtsdenken
    Abstract: This book of legal philosophy contends that positive law is better understood if it is not too easily equated with power, force, or command. Law is more a matter of discourse and deliberation than of sheer decision or of power relations. Here is thought-provoking reading for lawyers, advocates, scholars of jurisprudence, students of law, philosophy and political science, and general readers concerned with the future of the constitutional state.
    Abstract: Talks about the search of a model for a humane law - where the cruelty ban is still in force. Presenting the contention that positive law is better understood, if it is not too easily equated with power, force, or command, this book shows that law is more a matter of discourse and deliberation, than of sheer decision or of power relations
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Law as Constitution; Legal Argumentation and Concepts of Law; The Practice of Law and Legal Ethics; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5595-9
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    Phenomenology And The Non-Human Animal : At the Limits of Experience (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402063077
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    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology 56
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Phänomenologie ; Tiere
    Abstract: The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations.
    Abstract: The question of the relation between human and non-human animals in theoretical, ethical and political regards has become a prominent topic within the philosophical debates of the last two decades. This volume explores in substantial ways how phenomenology can contribute to these debates. It offers specific insights into the description and interpretation of the experience of the non-human animal, the relation between phenomenology and anthropology, the relation between phenomenology and psychology, as well as ethical considerations
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Attunement, Deprivation, and Drive; Being Beyond: Aristotle's and Plessner's Accounts of Animal Responsiveness; How Not to be a Jellyfish; How do Primates Think? Phenomenological Analyses of Non-language Systems of Representation in Higher Primates and Humans; Phenomenology and the Study of Animal Behavior; The Intentionality and Animal Heritage of Moral Experience; Appropriating the Philosophies of Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein; The Human as Just an Other Animal; The Intertwining of Incommensurables; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6307-7
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    Blameworthy Belief : A Study in Epistemic Deontologism (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059612
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library 338
    DDC: 121
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Ethics ; Education Philosophy ; Philosophy of law ; Philosophy of mind ; Deontologie ; Glaube ; Erkenntnistheorie ; Meinung ; Handlung ; Verantwortung
    Abstract: Believing the wrong thing can have drastic consequences. The question of when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief goes to the root of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. This book explores the conditions under which someone may be deemed blameworthy for holding a particular belief, drawing on contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship.
    Abstract: Believing the wrong thing may sometimes have drastic consequences. The question as to when a person is not only ill-guided, but genuinely at fault for holding a particular belief is an important one: It touches upon the roots of our understanding of such notions as criminal negligence and moral responsibility. The answer to this question may influence the extent to which we are willing to submit each other to punishments ranging from mild resentment to harsh prison terms. This book presents an extensive effort to shed light on the conditions under which we may appropriately deem someone blameworthy for holding a particular belief. It regiments and unifies several debates within contemporary epistemology, ethics and legal scholarship. Finally, the book brings a new philosophical look on issues like our power to control beliefs and the extent and nature of foresight.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Belief and Acceptance; Approaching a Conception of Epistemic Blameworthiness; Blameworthy Belief as Inexcusably Undesirable Belief; Epistemic Undesirability; Bruce Russell's Basic Analysis of the Notion of Epistemic Blameworthiness; Doxastic Control; Direct Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Voluntarism; Direct Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Voluntarism; Indirect Content-Directed Doxastic Control or Doxastic Pascalianism; Indirect Property-Directed Doxastic Control or Property Pascalianism; Intellectual Obligations
    Description / Table of Contents: Foresight and Blameworthy Inadvertence to RiskEpistemic Blameworthiness Analysed; Epistemic Autonomy; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5961-2
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    Ethics, Hunger and Globalization : In Search of Appropriate Policies (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402061318
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 12
    DDC: 338.19
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Economic policy ; Social policy ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Hunger ; Globalisierung ; Religion ; Hunger ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: Ethics, Hunger and Globalization adds an ethics dimension to the debate and research about poverty, hunger, and globalization. Outstanding scholars and practitioners from several disciplines discuss what action is needed for ethics to play a bigger role in action by governments, civil society, and the private sector to reduce poverty and hunger within the context of globalization. The book concludes that much of the rhetoric by policy makers is not followed up with appropriate action, and discusses the role of ethics in attempts to match action with rhetoric. The book also concludes that a better understanding of the values underlying both public and private sector action towards the alleviation of poverty and hunger would lead to more enlightened policies and greater success in attempts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The interaction between ethical, economic, and policy aspects is discussed and scholars and experienced practitioners from several disciplines suggest how such integration may be promoted.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction and Summary; Eliminating Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: A Moral Imperative or Enlightened Self-Interest?; Ethics, Globalization, and Hunger: an Ethicist's Perspective; The Ethics of Hunger: Development Institutions and the World of Religion; What Hunger-Related Ethics Lessons can we Learn from Religion? Globalization and the World's Religions; Freedom from Hunger as a Basic Human Right: Principles and Implementation; Millennium Development Goals and Other Good Intentions
    Description / Table of Contents: What We Know About Poverty and What We Must Do: Ethical and Political Aspects of EmpowermentEthics and Hunger: A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Perspective; Economic Development, Equality, Income Distribution, and Ethics; On The Ethics and Economics of Changing Behavior; Agricultural and Food Ethics in the Western World: A Case of Ethical Imperialism?; Ethics, Hunger, and The Case for Genetically Modified (GM) Crops; Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not Just for the Wealthy Countries; Agricultural Subsidy and Trade Policies; Food Safety Standards in Rich and Poor Countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Concluding Reflections on the Role of EthicsBack Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6131-8
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    De L'Éthique À La Justice : Langage et politique dans la philosophie de Lévinas (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402061226
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    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica, Collection Fondée Par H.L. Van Breda Et Publiée Sous Le Patronage Des Centres D'Archives-Husserl 183
    DDC: 320.01
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Political science Linguistics_xOntology ; Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 ; Philosophie
    Abstract: Ernst Wolff
    Abstract: Emmanuel Lévinas est le philosophe de la non-indifférence; il nest en aucune sorte un philosophe indifférent. Son inquiétude personnelle et engagement politique ont trouvé une expression philosophique dans une quête à deux versants. Dans le versant ontologique, il cherche à montrer que même si lhomme est lévénement de compréhension de lêtre, tout lhomme et toute signification ne se réduisent pas à la compréhension de lêtre seul. Dans le versant politique, il sinterroge sur la possibilité de soumettre la tendance totalitaire de toute politique à une recherche de justice qui ne dépend pas finalement de la politique même. Mais ces deux versants nen font quun. La découverte dune signification qui excède la compréhension de lêtre léthique fournit en même temps la source de renouvellement de la justice. Ainsi, par cette double question, Lévinas nous présente les fils conducteurs de notre enquête: une signification au-delà de la compréhension de lêtre et sa portée éthique, que nous appelons «langage» et que nous explorons dans la perspective de son importance politique. Les études analytiques dans lesquelles les notions de politique et de langage fonctionnent comme clef dinterprétation mutuelle débouchent sur une critique centrée sur deux problèmes: limpossibilité dinterpréter la signifiance de lautre et le danger inhérent à la conception dune justice dépassant lEtat.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6122-6
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    Disability in Islamic Law (2007)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 32
    DDC: 340.59
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    Keywords: Law ; Ethics ; Religion (General) ; Islam ; Behindertenrecht
    Abstract: Analyzes attitudes to people with various disabilities based on Muslim jurists' works (fiqh) in the Middle Ages and the modern era. This book focuses on people with disabilities and depicts the place and status that Islamic law has assigned to them, as well as how the law envisions their participation in religious, social, and communal life
    Description / Table of Contents: People with disabilities and the performance of religious duties; People with disabilities and jihad; People with disabilities and marriage; The Khuntha; Disabilities caused by humans: Intentional and unintentional injuries
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5052-6
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    Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education (2007)
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    Series Statement: Inclusive Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives 4
    DDC: 371.9046
    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Integrative Erziehung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Integrativer Unterricht
    Abstract: Represents a series of insights, ideas and questions concerning inclusive education and cross-cultural understandings. Drawing on historical and cultural material, policy developments, legislation and research findings, this book provides an exploration of key factors including Inclusive Education, human rights, diversity and educational needs
    Description / Table of Contents: Policy, Experience and Change: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Inclusive Education; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; 1. POLICY, EXPERIENCE AND CHANGE AND THE CHALLENGE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: THE CASE OF ENGLAND; 2. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN SPAIN: A VIEW FROM INSIDE; 3. THE INTEGRATION OF 'DISABLED' CHILDREN IN ORDINARY SCHOOLS IN FRANCE: A NEW CHALLENGE; 4. 'MADE IN ITALY': INTEGRAZIONE SCOLASTICA AND THE NEW VISION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION; 5. THE RHETORIC OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN LIBYA: ARE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS IN CRISIS?
    Description / Table of Contents: 6. THE LETHARGY OF A NATION: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN INDIA AND DEVELOPING SYSTEMIC STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE7. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; 8. DISABILITY AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN ZIMBABWE; 9. TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN CANADA; 10. EDUCATING THE OTHER: A JOURNEY IN CYPRUS TIME AND SPACE; 11. TO BE OR NOT TO BE INCLUDED - THAT IS THE QUESTION: DISABLED STUDENTS IN THIRD LEVEL EDUCATI; 12. IT'S A FIT-UP! INCLUSIVE EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, POLICY AND THE DISCORDANT VOICE; INDEX
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5119-7
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    Educational Research: Why 'What Works' Doesn't Work (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402053085
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    Series Statement: Educational Research v.1
    DDC: 370.7
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    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Forschung ; Pädagogik ; Praxis
    Abstract: Education and educational research are concerned with 'what works', to the exclusion of all other considerations. This book focuses on the problematical nature of the search for 'what works' in educational contexts, in practice as well as in theory
    Description / Table of Contents: The 'good practices' of Jozef Emiel Verheyenschoolman and Professor of Education at the Ghent University / Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon & Angelo Van Gorp -- Ovide Decroly, a hero of education / Angelo Van Gorp -- Why generalizability is not generalizable / Lynn Fendler -- The new languages and old institutions : problems of implementing new school governance / Daniel Tröhler -- Problematization or methodology / James D. Marshall -- The relevance of irrelevant research ; the irrelevance of relevant research / Paul Smeyers -- Expectations of what schientific research could (not) do / Kathleen Coessens and Jean Paul Van Bendegem -- Kuhnian science and education research : analytics of practice and training / Lynda Stone -- The international and the excellent in educational research / David Bridges -- Technical difficulties : the workings of practical judgement / Richard Smith -- The science of education -- disciplinary knowledge on non-knowledge/ignorance? / Edwin Keiner.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5308-5
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    Intervention, terrorism, and torture : contemporary challenges to just war theory (2007)
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    Series Statement: AMINTAPHIL, the philosophical foundations of law and justice v. 1
    DDC: 172.42
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Political Science ; Comparative law ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gerechter Krieg ; Terrorismus ; Folter ; Militärische Intervention
    Abstract: Just war theory is the traditional approach taken to questions of the morality of war, but war is far from traditional. This book asks whether just war theory is adequate to the challenges the social and technological developments pose. It examines the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Notes on Contributors; I. Introduction; Just War Theory and the Challenges It Faces; II. Some Theoretical Background; 1. A Postmodern View of Just War; 2. From Rights to Realism: Incoherence in Walzer'sConception of Jus in Bello; 3. A Realist Response to Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars; III. Intervention; 4. Walzer and Rawls on Just Wars and HumanitarianInterventions; 5. Humanitarian Intervention and Relational Sovereignty; 6. Just War Theory Post 9/11: Perfect Terrorismand Superpower Defense; 7. Preventive Intervention; IV. Terrorism
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Law, Just War, and the International FightAgainst Terrorism: Is It War?9. Determining Moral Rectitude in Thwarting SuicideTerrorist Attacks: Moral Terra Incognita; 10. Terrorism and the Ethics of War; 11. The War Against Terrorism and the "War"Against Terrorism; 12. Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction; V. Torture; 13. Humanity, Prisoners of War, and Torture; 14. Assessing the Prohibition Against Torture; 15. Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb; 16. Torture and Self-Defense; 17. War Rape's Challenge to Just War Theory
    Description / Table of Contents: 18. Prisons, POW Camps, and Interrogation Centers:Reflections on the Juridic Status of DetaineesVI. The Impact of Technology; 19. Non-Combatant Immunity in an Age ofHigh Tech Warfare; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4678-0
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    Efficiency, Justice and Care : Philosophical Reflections on Scarcity in Health Care (2007)
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    Series Statement: International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine v. 33
    DDC: 174.2
    Keywords: Ethics ; Medicine ; medicine Medical ethics ; Public health ; Philosophy (General) ; Medical ethics ; Health Services Accessibility ; Prejudice ; Social Justice ; Public Health ethics ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: This book attempts to answer the question how health care can be incorporated into a comprehensive theory of justice, while realising an acceptable balance between efficiency, justice and care. It seems to be that we can have any two but not all three. Essentially, the central question addressed by this book is the following: how best to square the proverbial welfare circle.
    Abstract: What does just health care imply? Does it mean that people have a right to health care? Does it entail that there are rights-based social obligations to provide equal access to health care for everyone? And if so, why? Why are health care interests so important that they deserve special protection? What kind of social good is health care? What are its functions and do these make it different from other commodities? Furthermore, how much equality should there be in health care? What inequalities are morally acceptable and how should the burdens of achieving equality be distributed? Which matters of health care belong to the domain of justice, and which to the domain of charity? To what extent should we allow personal responsibility to play a role in allocating health care services and resources, or in distributing the costs? And what does justice require with regard to long-term care for the chronically ill and irreversibly dependent? Since the 90's, issues of scarcity, priority setting, and rationing lie at the centre of most current debates on health care. These are pressing issues: one way or another, limits have to be set. As such, the question of what is involved in just health care becomes much more complex. This complexity can be represented as an inconsistent triad, a set of three propositions of which any two are compatible but which together form a contradiction. In the case of health care, the three rival values are: social efficiency, justice, and decent-quality care. It seems to be that we can have any two but not all three. Essentially, the central question is the following: how best to square the proverbial welfare circle. How can resources be matched to needs, or needs to resources in socially acceptable and economically feasible ways? This book attempts to answer the question how health care can be incorporated into a comprehensive theory of justice, while realising an acceptable balance between efficiency, justice and care. ' - I find it (the book) to be uncommonly good. The author very carefully analyzes key philosophical positions as they have been applied in this area, the research is very thorough, the writing is clear and engaging. This book could well be used in just about any university course dealing with public health care.' Professor David Novak, University of Toronto, Canada 'One of the most interesting books I have read in a long time - a very extensive overview of some prominent modern theories of justice and their application to resource distribution in health care. Based on this it raises a number of new and original questions, some of which also receive original and convincing answers.' Professor Søren Holm, Cardiff Law School, United Kingdom
    Description / Table of Contents: Just Health Care: Core Issues; Scarcity, Finitude and the Normative Value of Health; Justice as Fairness: John Rawls; Nussbaum's Approach: A Non-Contractarian Account of Care; Setting Limits: Dworkin's Proposal; Just Health Care: Foundations and Prospects
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5214-9
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    Careers of University Graduates : Views and Experiences in Comparative Perspectives (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402059261
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 17
    DDC: 331.114235
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    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Akademiker ; Berufslaufbahn
    Abstract: This book offers detailed comparative analyses of graduate employment and work, drawn from a survey of graduates in 11 European countries and Japan. The book shows how transition to employment, job assignments, employee assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It demonstrates more substantial differences in the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested.
    Abstract: "Graduates from institutions of Higher Education do not only hope to get employed and be better paid. Study can also have an impact on employment and work in many respects: facilitating transition to employment, opening up opportunities for demanding, interesting and responsible professional assignments, increasing remuneration and job security, providing opportunities for continuing learning and leading the way to international mobility and visibly international assignments. The book provides a series of detailed analyses of graduate employment and work in comparative perspective. It draws from the survey of graduates from 11 European countries and Japan first published in H. Schomburg und U. Teichler ""Higher Education and Graduate Employment and Work"" (Dordrecht: Springer 2006). In this volume, scholars from twelve countries show how transition to employment, job assignments, employment assessments of the quality of employment and work vary by the graduates' socio-biographic and educational background. It also focuses on experiences during the course of study and competences acquired, international experience, regional background and regions of employment. It demonstrates more substantial differences of the relationships between study and subsequent employment between various countries than previous debates and analyses have suggested."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Ulrich Teichler Graduate Employment and Work: Various Issues in a Comparative Perspective; Brenda Johnston and Brenda Little Socio-Biographical Background and Educational Path; Jake Murdoch and Jean-Jacques Paul Study Content and Process, Competences Upon Graduation and Employment; Jim Allen and Rolf van der Velden Transitions from Higher Education to Work; Trine Stavik and Clara Åse Arnesen Early Career; José García-Montalvo, José-Ginés Mora and Adela Garcia-Aracil The Employment Situation About Four Years After Graduation; Paul Kellermann Acquired Competences and Job Requirements
    Description / Table of Contents: Osmo Kivinen and Jouni Nurmi Job Requirements and Competences: Do Qualifications Matter?Jake Murdoch and Jean-Jacques Paul Links Between Knowledge and Work and Appropriate Employment; Gunhild Sagmeister Early Career Education; Torgerdur Einarsdottir ""On Different Tracks""; The Gendered Lanscape of Educational and Occupational Paths Amongst European Graduates; Roberto Moscati and Michele Rostan Regional Wealth, Employment and Mobility; Volker Jahr and Ulrich Teichler Graduates' International Experience and Mobility; Egbert de Weert Graduate Employment in Europe: The Employers' Perspective
    Description / Table of Contents: Harald Schomburg Work Orientation and Job SatisfactionUlrich Teichler Confirminf Conventional Wisdom and Contributing to New Insights: The Results of a Comparative Study on Graduate Employment and Work; List of Contributors
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    A Problem-based Approach for Management Education : Preparing Managers for Action (2007)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402057564
    Language: English
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    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DDC: 658.4/07124
    RVK:
    QP 371
    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education, Higher ; Economics ; Führungskraft ; Ausbildung ; Problemorientiertes Lernen
    Abstract: This book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. The book explores how PBL can make knowledge about management locally relevant, and clarifies how PBL can enable students to apply their knowledge to real problems.
    Abstract: The past two decades have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of management education around the world. At the same time, however, influential scholars - Mintzberg, Bennis, Pfeffer and others - have levelled pointed critiques at these programs questioning their quality and relevance, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning. 'Preparing Managers for Action' is a timely contribution for management schools as well as other higher education institutions seeking the means to increase the relevance and quality of their professional education programs. The book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. PBL is an active learning approach first pioneered in medical education, but whose use has grown steadily in a variety of professional fields over the past two decades. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. This book is designed to provide both novice and experienced users of PBL with resources for designing and implementing problem-based management education. The book provides the novice with useful theoretical and practical background on how design a PBL curriculum, use PBL in a classroom, and develop PBL materials. At the same time, the book will challenge experienced users of PBL and case teaching to extend their applications through the use of learning technologies and more systematic approaches to assessment and curriculum design.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Preparing 'Managers for Action'; Chapter 2 PBL: A Promising Approach to Education in the Professions; Chapter 3 Developing Problem-based Learning Materials; Chapter 4 Implementing Problem-based Learning in the Classroom; Chapter 5 Integrating Technology and Problem-Based Learning; Chapter 6 Student Assessment in a PBL Environment; Chapter 7 Problem-Based Learning as a Curriculum Approach; Chapter 8 Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Higher Education Programs; PART II: INTRODUCTION
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 9 Leading Organizational Change PHILIP HALLINGERChapter 10 Data to Intelligence KAMONTIP SNIDVONGS; Chapter 11 New Product Positioning RANDALL SHANNON; Chapter 12 Retail to e-Tail VICHITA VATHANOPHAS; Chapter 13 Reorganizing for Competitiveness SOOKSAN KANTABUTRA; Chapter 14 Employee Selection PHILIP HALLINGER & EDWIN M. BRIDGES; Chapter 15 PHILIP HALLINGER & BRIAN HUNT; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5756-4
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    Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056666
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 22
    DDC: 378
    RVK:
    DV 2850
    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education and state ; Education, Higher
    Abstract: Part of a series which offers a compendium of integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. This book focuses on twelve general areas that encompass the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; A Career Out of Control (Maybe); Accountability, Assessment, and the Scholarship of "Best Practice"; Striving for What? Exploring the Pursuit of Prestige; 'Outsiders', Student Subcultures, and the Massification of Higher Education; Teachers' Nonverbal Behavior and its Effects on Students; The Pell Program at Thirty Years; The Political Economy of Redistribution Through Higher Education Subsidies; Adjusting for Nonresponse in Surveys; Neoliberal Policies and Community College Faculty Work; Signals and Strategies in Hiring Faculty of Color
    Description / Table of Contents: Marketing Sameness: Consumerism, Commercialism, and the Status QuoBack Matter;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5666-6
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    The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402056123
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    Series Statement: Educational Innovation in Economics and Business 10
    DDC: 658.40711
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Führungskräfteentwicklung ; Betriebswirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftspädagogik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements ; Führungskraft ; Hochschulbildung
    Abstract: This volume explores the challenges of educating professionals to succeed in a complex, uncertain and global business world. The book contains intellectual concepts and practical advice from leaders in innovative education around the globe. It will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges.
    Abstract: "As an educator, are you struggling with any of the following challenges? Do you know what competencies, capacities, attitudes, and perspectives learners need to develop so they can be contributing, productive members of organizations and society? What resource constraints do you need to address in trying to provide innovative and meaningful education? How can you make the learning process more effective? How can you best use technology to effectively deliver content and meaningfully engage learners in the educational process? What can you do to help people become effective leaders of businesses and other organizations in an increasingly complex and values-driven world that is changing rapidly and often contentiously? How do you accommodate the needs of learners throughout their lives? How do you accomplish all of this in a multicultural and global environment? If you are facing any of these challenges, this volume is a ""must read"" it tackles these questions and more, providing perspectives and insights from leading educators around the globe. This volume will help educators and the educational enterprise become more innovative, efficient, and effective in addressing the teaching/learning challenges associated with helping students prepare to face their own challenges as leaders and followers in an increasingly complex, uncertain, and global economy."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributing Authors; Acknowledgments; Editorial Team; Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION; The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World; PART II: THE TEACHING/LEARNING CONUNDRUM: ISSUES, CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS; The Education Objective for the Knowledge Economy; A Process for Implementing Problem-based Learning; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; A Tempus Tacis Project as a Catalyst for Change in Post-Soviet Georgia; Is There a Gap Between the Idea and its Application in Higher Education?; Implementing and Sustaining Educational Innovations
    Description / Table of Contents: Use, Misuse, and Abuse of Student Evaluations of InstructionPART III: ASSESSING THE DIMENSIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF LEARNING AND LEARNERS; The Identification of Constructivist Pedagogy in Different Learning Environments; Development of Competence in Translating Business Ideas into Practice; Commonalities in Attitudes and Beliefs Toward Different Academic Subjects; Multicultural Perceptions of the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle; Developing Learning Materials for the Unknown Online Learner; Piloting the Accreditation of Experiential Learning - A Case Study
    Description / Table of Contents: PART IV: DEVELOPING COMPETENCIES FOR CAREER SUCCESS: ISSUES AND PRACTICESTeaching for Life - Generic Capabilities that Link University Learning with Workplace Learning; How Distance Education Can Sustain the Development of Competencies; An Approach for Helping Students Become Authentic Ethical Role Models; Developing Critical Thinking Skills Online to Facilitate a Discursive Multicultural Classroom; The Role of University Education; PART V: USING TECHNOLOGY TO FACILITATE TEACHING AND LEARNING; Where Did the Didactics Go?; An Exploratory Analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Applying the Concept of a Corporate University to a Business SectorThe ITESM Model; An Exploratory Case Study Examining the Impact of Action Learning on the Design of Management-level Web-based Instruction; Lower Perceived Performance by Students; PART VI: TEACHING AND LEARNING INSIGHTS FROM UNIQUE APPLICATIONS; Powerful Ideas for Innovative Learning Design and the Use of IT in Corporate Education; Leveraging Diversity in Globalizing Education; The Relevance of a Public Sector Experiment for Innovative Education; Principles and Practices; PBL Experience with First Year Business Undergraduates
    Description / Table of Contents: Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5612-3
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    Financing Public Universities : The Case of Performance Funding (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055607
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    Series Statement: HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS 18
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Education ; Education, Higher ; Finance ; Social policy ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung
    Abstract: This crucial book addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie university funding to indicators of performance. It covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding, the public management reform debate within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved, and sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead. Four appendices cover more technical matters.
    Abstract: "Financing Public Universities addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public universities is part of broader efforts to reform public management, and it is being promoted and implemented by various government agencies around the globe. In particular, European universities with their normally strong governmental ties, or higher education systems molded on European universities, are prime targets of such reforms. Performance funding has made its inroads in attempts to grant university systems managerial autonomy: autonomy was to be granted in exchange for funding modes which are tied to the measurement of performance indicators. Unfortunately, performance-based budgeting or funding measures cannot meet the various expectations: they do not raise the quality of teaching or learning, they do not raise research performance, they take back a great deal of managerial autonomy which is commonly judged to be essential for the well being of higher education institutions, in particular research universities, and they act as automata in place of proper governance and management. ""Financing Public Universities"" addresses policy makers, higher education administrators, scholars and students of higher education management. After an introduction to the theme and to the book (Chapter 1), ""Financing Public Universities"" covers the evolvement of mass higher education and the associated curtailment of funding (Chapter 2), the public management reform debate (Chapter 3) within which performance-based budgeting or funding evolved (Chapter 4), sketches alternative governance and management modes which can be used instead (Chapter 5), and epitomizes inertia or challenges (Chapter 6). Four appendices cover more technical matters, such as a comparative exposition of the research performance of universities by nation (Appendix C) and examples of funding systems in the UK and in the USA (Appendix D)."
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Mass Higher Education and Funding Bases; Public Management Reform Debate; Performance-Based Budgeting or Funding; Alternative Governance and Management Modes; Inertia and Challenges; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5560-7
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    Successful Principal Leadership in Times of Change : An International Perspective (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402055164
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    Series Statement: Studies In Educational Leadership 5
    DDC: 371.2012
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    DK 1040
    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Schulleitung ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, and Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
    Abstract: The leadership of school principals is an enormously powerful influence on the quality of schools and the learning of pupils. While the work of principals has been examined intensively over the past 20 years, almost no effort has been made to understand the role from an international or cross-cultural perspective. This book contributes significantly to our understanding of successful school leaders by describing similarities and differences in the work of such leaders in countries ranging from England to Australia, the United States to Norway, Sweden to Hong Kong. Bringing together case study research, the book helps explain what all successful principals do and the ways in which context shapes some of their work.
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5516-4_BookFrontmatter_OnlinePDF.pdf; 978-1-4020-5516-4_1_OnlinePDF.pdf; Starting with What we Know; 978-1-4020-5516-4_2_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful School Principalship in Tasmania; 978-1-4020-5516-4_3_OnlinePDF.pdf; Models of Successful Principal Leadership: Victorian Case Studies; 978-1-4020-5516-4_4_OnlinePDF.pdf; Sustaining Success in Challenging Contexts: Leadership in English Schools; 978-1-4020-5516-4_5_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Leadership Based on Democratic Values; 978-1-4020-5516-4_6_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful PrincipalshipThe Swedish Case
    Description / Table of Contents: 978-1-4020-5516-4_7_OnlinePDF.pdfCommunicative Strategies Among Successful Danish School Principals; 978-1-4020-5516-4_8_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Leadership: Does Context Matter and If So, How?; 978-1-4020-5516-4_9_OnlinePDF.pdf; Successful Principalship in Shanghai: A Case Study; 978-1-4020-5516-4_10_OnlinePDF.pdf; Against the Odds: Successful Principals in Challenging U.S. Schools; 978-1-4020-5516-4_11_OnlinePDF.pdf; Building and Sustaining Successful Principalship: Key Themes; 978-1-4020-5516-4_12_OnlinePDF.pdf; What We Learned: A Broad View
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5516-1
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    Quality Assurance In Higher Education : Trends in Regulation, Translation and Transformation (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402060120
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 20
    DDC: 378.107
    RVK:
    AL 19800
    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Educational tests and measurements
    Abstract: By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on the same subject. Containing comprehensive discussion of the most relevant trends in quality assurance regulation, translation and transformation, researchers and policy makers will find an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.
    Abstract: By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on quality assurance. First, it brings together views from micro to macro levels in the multi-actor space, showing how quality assurance impacts the higher education system throughout. Second, it links quality assurance solidly to issues of regulation, translation (rather than mechanical implementation ) and transformation, instead of being only focused on quality assurance as a single policy instrument. Third, it uses this broad range of research insights to criticize current practices, explaining for instance why sometimes people have difficulty in tracing any concrete effects of all initiatives taken in this area. Finally, the book offers proposals for better focusing quality assurance in the future to address institutional challenges better. The general purpose of the book then is to give an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; The Public Regulation of Higher Education Qualities: Rationale, Processes, and Outcomes; Will Market Competition Assure Academic Quality? An Analysis of the UK and US Experience; States and Europe and Quality of Higher Education; Quality as Fashion: Exploring the Translation of a Management Idea into Higher Education; The 'Quality Game': External Review and Institutional Reaction over Three Decades in the United States; Analysing Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Proposals for a Conceptual Framework and Methodological Implications
    Description / Table of Contents: A Self-assessment of Higher Education Institutions from the Perspective of the EFQM Excellence ModelImproving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Can Learning Theory Add Value to Quality Review?; Transforming Quality Evaluation: Moving On; Conclusions and Further Challenges; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6012-0
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    Competencies, Higher Education and Career in Japan and the Netherlands (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402060441
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics 21
    DDC: 378.1
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Labor economics ; Sociology
    Abstract: This book investigates how social and cultural factors affect the education, training and career development of graduates of higher education in Japan and the Netherlands. The aim of this book is to explore how Dutch and Japanese graduates choose and develop their careers in reference to the above-mentioned challenges. It is based on a unique data set consisting of surveys held among graduates three and eight years after leaving higher education.
    Abstract: This book investigates how social and cultural factors affect the education, training and career development of graduates of higher education in Japan and the Netherlands. Despite their different historical paths, both countries are now subject to the common pressure of globalization. As a result, the higher education sector in both countries is becoming more universal and available to a larger population, and the economy and society are becoming increasingly knowledge-intensive. The aim of this book is to explore how Dutch and Japanese graduates choose and develop their careers in reference to the above-mentioned challenges. It is based on a unique data set consisting of surveys held among graduates 3 and 8 years after leaving higher education.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; policies on the transition from higher education to employment since the 1990s; Competencies acquired at university and required in the workplace; University and college differences in the returns to education in japan and the netherlands; University education and its relevance to working life; On the use and generation of knowledge economy competencies; Influence of diversified employment on the initial career of higher education graduates; Career and mobility in japan and the netherlands; Japanese and dutch graduates' work orientations and job satisfaction
    Description / Table of Contents: Individualism and collectivismDoes Higher Education Provide Opportunities For Career Development Of Men And Women?; The relationships between higher education and employment in japan and the netherlands; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6044-1
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    Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781402053429
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 6
    DDC: 305.55
    RVK:
    DL 4000
    RVK:
    DW 1000
    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Education Philosophy ; Lebenslanges Lernen ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Explains why generic capacities have become so important and presents an argument that the process of acquiring them is both lifelong and developmental. By using case studies and theoretical analyses, this book provides a comprehensive and contemporary coverage of the issues concerning generic abilities
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Nature And Development of Generic Attributes; Graduate Attributes in an Age of Uncertainty; Graduate Attributes and Changing Conceptions of Learning; Graduate Employability and Lifelong Learning: A Need for Realism?; The OECD: Its Role in the Key Competencies Debate and in the Promotion of Lifelong Learning; Graduate Attributes and the Transition to Higher Education; Academics' Understandings of Generic Graduate Attributes: A Conceptual Basis for Lifelong Learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Skills Development: Ten Years of Evolution from Institutional Specification to a more Student-Centred ApproachLifelong Learning, Graduate Capabilities and Workplace Learning; Work-Based Learning, Graduate Attributes and Lifelong Learning; Generic Attributes and the First Job: Graduates' Perceptions and Experiences; Constructing Professionals' Employ-Abilities: Conditions for Accomplishment; Synthesis: A Lifelong Learning Framework for Graduate Attributes;
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    Education and the Public Interest : School Reform, Public Finance, and Access to Higher Education (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402052484
    Language: English
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    DDC: 370
    RVK:
    DI 2002
    Keywords: Education ; Political science ; Education, Higher ; Political science Philosophy ; USA ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsreform ; Effizienzanalyse ; USA ; Bildungsfinanzierung ; Bildungsreform ; Hochschulzulassung ; Öffentliches Interesse
    Abstract: Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. This book provides a systematic evaluation of the effects of state education reforms and finance policies over the past decades. It includes a discussion of the need for a fundamental rethinking of educational policy in the United States.
    Abstract: Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. In the U.S. these reforms are rationalized based on intermediate variables, like the number of math credits completed in high school and net prices. However, the reforms rationalized based on this research are seldom evaluated in relation to outcomes (i.e., measures of student achievement and equal opportunity to attain an education). In Education and the Public Interest the editor re-examines the political rationales for these reforms. John Rawls's theory of justice is reconstructed to develop a framework for assessing the effects of public policy on these outcomes. This volume undertakes a comparative study of the states in the U.S. to examine how education reforms influence student achievement, high school graduation, and college access, and finance schemes influence college access. Policies implemented by states in the 1990s were associated with improved achievement, as measured by test scores for high school students. These policies also correlate with increased high school drop out rates and the widening gap in college enrolment rates across income groups. This volume considers how privatization and accountability policies can be reconstructed to reduce inequality while continuing to improve student achievement and college enrolment. 'I enjoyed reading the book and benefited from it, and I feel confident others will as well. I am particularly taken by its sweep and by the skill and persuasiveness with which the author ties together the broad trends and themes of privatization, globalization, school reform, preparation, equity, equality and college access.' Prof. James C. Hearn, Vanderbilt University, USA '(What I)...especially like about this book is the framing of the importance of the topic in terms of the global political and economic changes and the notion of access to quality education as a basic right.' Prof. Laura W. Perna, College of Education, University of Maryland, USA
    Description / Table of Contents: Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 284
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    Transforming Higher Education : A Comparative Study (2nd edition) (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402046575
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 13
    DDC: 378
    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; England ; Norwegen ; Schweden ; Hochschulreform
    Abstract: Drawing together the implications of studies of Sweden, Norway and England, this work assess the reforms of the higher education systems on three distinct levels, the state, the institution and the individual. It examines change in government policy and in the leadership and management of higher education institutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Comparison and Theories; Higher Education Policies: Historical Overview; Policy Regimes and Policy Making; The State and Higher Education; Higher Education Institutions; Policy Change and the Academic Profession; Academic Identities; Change and Continuity: Some Conclusions; Back Matter;
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    The Sphere Of Attention : Context and Margin (2006)
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    Series Statement: Contributions To Phenomenology 54
    DDC: 153.733
    Keywords: Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Consciousness ; Attention ; Gestalt Theory ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Sphere of Attention uses the latest empirical research to illustrate how attention is organized according to gestalt-phenomenological principles inside and outside the focus of attention. For the first time, this book classifies how attention shifts, and argues that self-awareness, reflection, and even morality, are best thought of as dynamic transformations in the sphere of attention. The radical thesis of this book is that attention is always the center of a sphere of attention, which consists in contextual and marginal processing. Together these three organizational dimensions - focus, context, margin - constitute the human being as a sphere of attention. In addition to assessing the most recent laboratory results from prominent psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists, The Sphere of Attention also examines the views of phenomenologists such as Gurwitsch, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre. This book demonstrates that gestalt-phenomenology is a powerful new method for investigating human nature.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; Contents; CHAPTER 1 THE SPHERE OF ATTENTION IS THEME CONTEXT AND MARGIN; CHAPTER 2: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SPHERE OF Attention; CHAPTER 3: TRANSFORMATIONS IN ATTENDING; CHAPTER 4: GURWITSCH AND HUSSERL ON ATTENTION; CHAPTER 5: SUBJECTIVITY AND THE SPHERE OF ATTENTION; CHAPTER 6: MORALITY AND THE SPHERE OF ATTENTION; CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3572-1
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    YEARNING FOR FORM AND OTHER ESSAYS ON HERMANN COHEN'S THOUGHT (2006)
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    Series Statement: Studies in German Idealism 5
    DDC: 193
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Cohen, Hermann 1842-1918
    Abstract: Hermann Cohen's philosophy has now, finally, received the recognition it deserves. His thought undoubtedly has all the characteristics of a classic. It faced the great problems of philosophical tradition, with full critical awareness and at the same time, with the capacity to open up new, original routes. It represents one of the last expressions of great systematic thought. The papers collected in this volume deal with different aspects of Cohen's thought, ethical, political, aesthetic and religious aspectsin particular. However they all represent attempts to follow the ubiquitous presence of certain important themes in Cohen and their capacity for containing meanings that cannot be limited to a single philosophical sphere: themes that are keys to reading unity of inspiration in his thought, which is more deeply imbedded than the exterior architectural unity of his work. The search for the fundamental themes behind Cohen is an important task, if we wish to see this philosopher as a present-day vital point of reference.
    Description / Table of Contents: Hermann Cohen's Response to Anti-Judaism; Plato's Idea of the Good in Its Different Interpretations; Authentic and Historical Theodicy in Kant and Cohen; Correlation in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy of Religion: A Method and More than a Method; Cohen and Mozart: Considerations on Drama, the Beautiful and Humaneness in Cohen's Aesthetics; Religion of Reason and Judaism in Hermann Cohen; Similarity and Diversity of the Other: The Foreigner. Topical Motives in Hermann Cohen's Ethical Idealism; The Portrait in Hermann Cohen's Aesthetics; Religion as a Fact of Culture and the System of Philosophy
    Description / Table of Contents: Humour in Religion: Peace and ContentmentLyric Poetry and Prayer; Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen; Autonomy of the Law; The Existence of the Ideal in Hermann Cohen's Ethics; The Holy Spirit out of the Sources of Judaism and Kantianism; Yearning for Form Hermann Cohen in Postmodernism
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    THE TASTE FOR ETHICS (2006)
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 7
    DDC: 178
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Biology Philosophy ; Lebensmittelüberwachung
    Abstract: The field of ethics must be extended to cover responsibility for the production and choice of foodstuffs. This book shows how the focus of ethics can be expanded from its concern for the good life with and for others to cover the good life in fair food production practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Eating, Society and Ethics; Food to Science: On the Intellectualization of Food; The Storylessness of Food; Tracing the Production History; Food Ethics as the Ethics of the Trace; Traceability and Food Ethics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4554-9
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    Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility (2006)
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 22
    DDC: 362.10973
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Economics ; Health Services Administration ; Health Services Administration ethics
    Abstract: This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.
    Abstract: The effective management of appropriate health care should be able to contain medical care costs and improve accessibility while addressing rationing concerns. However, managed care in the United States has not lived up to the expectations set for it.Managed care quickly gained popularity among employers and public policy makers as a mechanism for curbing the excessive growth of health care insurance costs. Nonetheless, since its introduction, the system of largely for-profit managed care has been the subject of much public and political debate. The change from a fee-for-service system toward a system in which the health care insurance component is combined with the delivery of a broad range of integrated health care services for populations of plan enrollees that are financed prospectively from a limited budget has been widely criticized and has even been called repugnant. Instead of placing the blame on managed care organizations, however, we need to keep in mind that such organizations operate without societal agreement on critical issues such as a workable definition of health, an authoritative standard for defining the scope of entitlements, and on the distribution of labor between public and private sector entities. The health care system in the United States is also characterized by decentralization as well as the absence of a comprehensive health care planning or budgeting system, substantive access rules, and agreed-upon minimum health care benefit package. Therefore, managed care organizations only have limited responsibilities. The nonexistence of a shared, unifying paradigm of responsibility has been called the leading cause of the inability to manage health care appropriately. The stakeholders in health care operate on a set of widely varying interpretations of the notion of responsibility. The concept of genuine responsibility, recognizing the complexity of health care and the need for stakeholder-specific interpretations of responsibility, proposes as the underlying premise of responsibility (at least in regard to health care) the social agreement that distributive choices should be made on the basis of the premise of deliberate reciprocity. When all parties share the same foundation on which the notion of responsibility is built the resulting trust and cooperation among stakeholders enables them to find morally appropriate solutions in reforming health care.
    Description / Table of Contents: HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SCARCITY OF HEALTH CARE RESOURCES; THE CONCEPT OF MANAGED CARE AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS; IDEOLOGY: THE SILENT PARTNER; THE CONCEPT OF GENUINE RESPONSIBILITY; REVISING THE TEMPLATE FOR MODELING HEALTH CARE; THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS; IMPLEMENTATION IN THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4185-3
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    The voice of breast cancer in medicine and bioethics (2006)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine 88
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 616.99449
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Oncology ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Developmental psychology ; Breast Neoplasms ; Bioethical Issues ; Ethics, Medical ; Philosophy, Medical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Brustkrebs ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: Unlike any other volume focusing on women's health issues, this collection brings together a wealth of cross-disciplinary perspectives to bear on the intersection of breasts and medicine.Among other works on similar subject matters, the academic versatility of this volume is unparalleled. This collection can serve as a textbook in a wide range of courses including those in philosophy, women's studies, biology, psychology, literature, history, and medicine.
    Abstract: Few diseases have made more difference to our understanding of illness, the relation of the patient to the physician and other health care professionals, and the social context of disease than breast cancer. Breast cancer activism has provided a model of public policy advocacy for women, as well as for sufferers from other diseases, and even in causes unrelated to health. In many ways it has become emblematic of issues in women's health. This volume offers a discursive analysis of breast cancer. From multiple perspectives - historical, philosophical, psychological, socio-political - these essays explore the competing narratives that have made breast cancer a contested site. It addresses debates about the autonomy of the patient in relation to the authority of the physician, as well as the importance of patient narratives in understanding disease. It analyzes the relation between the community and medical practice, particularly with regard to the effect of breast cancer activists and feminists on the medical understanding and treatment of breast cancer. And, it questions the intersection of medical science with political institutions and agencies of public policy in determining priorities of research and strategies of treatment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Women Finding Their Own Ways to Live with Human Contingency Negotiating Personal and Political Settlements with Breast Cancer; Power, Gender, and Pizzazz: The Early Years of Breast Cancer Activism; Breast Cancer: Dueling Discourses and the Persistence of an Outmoded Paradigm; Doing Things with Ideas and Affects in the Illness Narratives Of Susan Sontag and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; The Breast Cancer Diaries; Breast Cancer: The Maternal Body Reflected in a Three-way Mirror; Learn to Love What's Left; Death and the Other; Breast Cancer Research
    Description / Table of Contents: Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer and Informed ConsentThe Role of Psychosocial Research in Understanding and Improving the Experience of Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Risk; Teaching about Breast Cancer and ""Common Health""; Theoretical Considerations on ""Reading"" the Breast; Recent Developments in Breast Cancer Research
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4477-1
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    Impossible Bodies, Impossible Selves: Exclusions and Student Subjectivities (2006)
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    Series Statement: Inclusive education--cross cultural perspectives v. 3
    DDC: 371.835
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    Keywords: Education ; Sociology ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Bildungswesen ; Diskriminierung
    Abstract: Brings sophisticated but accessible theoretical tools together with ethnographic data from real schoolsDemonstrates the inseparability of categories such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, ability, disability, special needsDevelops tools for understanding the relationships between schools, subjectivities, and students as learnersWorks across national contexts to show the wide applicability of these toolsProblematises narrow understandings of inclusion found in contemporary policyExplores a new politics for interrupting educational inequalities
    Abstract: Looking across national contexts and drawing on ethnographic studies of schools in the UK and Australia, the book explores the implications of the contemporary education policy context and processes and practices inside schools for students as learners and for educational inequalities. The book uses tools offered by post-structural theory to read ethnographic data and show how the discourses that circulate inside schools at once mobilise and elide gender, sexuality, social class, ability, disability, race, ethnicity, religious and cultural belongings at the same time as they open up and close down 'who' students can be as learners. In demonstrating these processes the book offers new insights into how these 'truths' about students and learners are created and how they come to be bound so tightly to the educational inclusions, privileges and successes that some students enjoy and the exclusions, disadvantages and 'failures' that other students face.
    Description / Table of Contents: Who's in and who's out? Inclusion and exclusion, globalised education policy, and inequality; Rendering subjects: Theorising the production of the Self; Researching subjectivity and educational exclusions; Names and practices: making subjects in/of school; Excluded White-working-class-hetero-adult-masculinity; Excluded White-working-class-hetero-(un)femininity; Excluded Black femininity; Excluded 'specialness' (White-working class-hetero-(hyper-masculinity)
    Description / Table of Contents: Included and excluded? Middle class-White-queer-high ability-alternative youth-culture/Working class-White-Black-hetero-low ability-mainstream youth-cultureIncluded learners, impossible girls: The incommensurability of Indian-ness and desirable femininity; Included students, impossible boys: The 'racing' and 'specialing' of (un-)masculinity; Intelligible impossibility: The (un-)feminine subject-hood of a 'geeza-girl'; Good students, acceptable learners, intelligible girls: Class, race, gender, sexuality and the adornment of feminine bodies
    Description / Table of Contents: Between good and bad student, between acceptable and unacceptable learnerPracticing performative politics for inclusive education
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4549-2
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    EMBODIMENT AND EDUCATION (2006)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 15
    DDC: 370.1
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    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Humanities ; Körper ; Erziehung
    Abstract: Discursive accounts of the body have been prominent recently. While acknowledging the usefulness of these, the author, drawing upon specific philosophers of the body and a wide range of other theorists, focuses attention on the experiencing body - which she refers to as 'creatural existence'. Thinking in terms of the creatural, she argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity', in which place-based existence is understood anew. The educational implications of focusing on what bodies 'do' and not so much in terms of how they are socially inscribed, presents them as practico-sensory totalities which should perhaps be seen as systems rather than an as a mere organism or entity. Such an articulation of creatural existence emphasizes animality, and in so doing reminds us of the centrality of the senses in all knowing and doing, including crucially, in relation to those practices which we have understood as 'work'. Multi-sensorial education is a major sub-theme of the book and the author argues persuasively for this by means of a critical analysis of the ocular centrism that is characteristic of contemporary culture. With its strong philosophical anchoring and its judicial use of interdisciplinary sources this book will appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers not only in the field of philosophy of education but those from many others disciplines. It will also interest primary and secondary school teachers, curriculum designers and education policy makers. 'Marjorie O'Loughlin shows in this book that embodiment ought to be central to human hopes to be whole persons, who are not merely productive but who are also expressive of our potentiality. Her 'creatural existence' grounds this in our fleshly selves, and she explores it through the emotions, through work, and through citizenship. Her achievement here is profound: in one book, we find an interdisciplinary account of the evidence for creatural existence, presented accessibly in first-person philosophical narrative, based mainly on Merleau-Ponty. If bodies matter more than ever in everyday life, educators should start with our fleshly selves and move creatively forward. O'Loughlin points out the direction...and pushes us persuasively: you can feel the nudge!' David Beckett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
    Description / Table of Contents: The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World; Creatural Embodiment; Working Bodies; Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment; Embodied Citizenship
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4588-3
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    Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Europe : Results from Graduate Surveys from Twelve Countries (2006)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 15
    DDC: 378.013094
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    Keywords: Education ; Labor Economics ; Education, Higher ; Europa ; Akademiker ; Beschäftigung
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5154-8
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    Moral Education : Beyond the Teaching of Right and Wrong (2006)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 14
    DDC: 370.114
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    Keywords: Education ; Ethics ; Teachers Training of ; Education Philosophy ; Sittliche Erziehung
    Abstract: This volume is unique in providing a comprehensive discussion of moral education in the light of a range of ethical theories. In a balanced, thoughtful and penetrating account, the author addresses important contemporary issues and controversies (morality and citizenship, family values, sexual morality). The author is a highly respected authority on this and related educational topics. The book is written in an accessible and jargon-free style.
    Abstract: Though divine command is rejected as a source of moral justification, the possible contribution of some religious traditions to moral education is sympathetically considered. This book addresses contemporary issues such as the links between personal morality and citizenship, including world citizenship, family values, and sexual morality
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 Responding to a Moral crisis; 2 The Scope of Moral Education; 3 Morality and Religion; 4 The Status of Moral Judgements; 5 The Development of Moral Reasoning; 6 Maximising Happiness; 7 Rights and Rationality; 8 Virtues; 9 Communitarianism; 10 Caring; 11 Morality One or Many; 12 The Outcomes of Moral Education; 13 Sexual Morality; 14 Families and Family Life; 15 Moral Education and Citizenship; 16 And Global Citizenship; 17 Moral Education in Practice; Bibliography; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3709-0
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    Bioethics in Cultural Contexts : Reflections on Methods and Finitude (2006)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 28
    DDC: 174.957
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    XC 2800
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    CC 7264
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medicine ; medicine Philosophy ; Social sciences Methodology ; Bioethics ; Ethical Relativism
    Abstract: "This book discusses a range of methodological issues for an interdisciplinary bioethics. How can bioethics be an enterprise that does not only isolate issues and moral reasons but also (re)contextualises them? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different traditional and innovative modes of ethical work in terms of these tasks? By introducing the term ""finitude"" in the sense of limits of human existence, limits of human knowledge and knowledge capacity, a difference was set in the cultural apprehension of medicine. Is medicine aimed at overcoming our existential limits: to fight diseases and prolong life? Finitude reintroduces the existential and cultural basis on which every medicine (limits-sensitive or off-limits medicine) depends, but it concerns also ethical judgment. An apprehension of the limitations of different ethical approaches to biomedicine, however, could strengthen the collaborative effort of an interdisciplinary bioethics that embraces also cultural studies and social sciences."
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Introduction; Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Switzerland; Marcus Düwell, the Netherlands and Dietmar Mieth; Germany; I. Fundamental Aspects; II. Classical Approaches; III. Culture and Society; IV. Body and Identity; V. Innovative Modes of Analysis; Erica Haimes, UK; List of Contributors
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4241-8
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    Being Apart from Reasons : The Role of Reasons in Public and Private Moral Decision-Making (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402042836
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 76
    DDC: 170
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Law Philosophy ; Begründung ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Recht
    Abstract: Being Apart from Reasons deals with the question of how we should go about using reasons to decide what to do. More particularly, the book presents objections to the most common response given by contemporary legal and political theorists to the moral complexity of decision-making in modern societies, namely: the attempt to release public agents from their argumentative burden by insulating a particular set of reasons from the general pool of reasons and assigning the former systematic priority over all other reasons. If those attempts succeed, public agents should not reason comprehensively, taking into account all reasons and weighing them against one another. Some reasons would be excluded from decision-making by kind. That strategy is apparent both in Rawls' claim that reasons concerning the right are systematically prior to reasons concerning the good and in Raz's claim that pre-emptive reasons are systematically prior to first-order reasons. The same strategy is also instantiated by certain arguments for the procedural value of law, such as Jeremy Waldron's. In the book, each of those arguments for the insulation of reasons is objected to in order to defend the thesis the reasoning by public agents must always be as comprehensive as possible. In order to reach that conclusion a particular picture of public decision-making is needed. That picture is provided by the comparison between the use of reasons in public and private decision-making which is carried out in the first two chapters of the book. That comparison brings to light peculiar features of public decision-making that imply the need for public agents to reason comprehensively before deciding. The remaining chapters object to those arguments mentioned above which aim at justifying the exclusion of certain reasons from public agents' decision-making.
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION; MORAL ACTION, REASON AND INCLINATION; REASONING IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTEXTS; NEUTRALIST PUBLIC LIBERALISM AND THE INSULATION OF THE RIGHT FROM THE GOOD; LEGAL AND NON-LEGAL REASONS IN THE COMMON GROUND OF DELIBERATION; THE PROCEDURAL VALUE OF LAW AND THE INSULATION BETWEEN LEGAL AND MORAL REASONS FOR ACTION; CONCLUSION
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4283-3
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    Life conduct in modern times : Karl Jaspers and psychoanalysis (2006)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine v. 89
    DDC: 150.195
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    Keywords: Jaspers, Karl ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Psychoanalysis History ; Dissent and Disputes History ; History, 20th Century ; Jaspers, Karl 1883-1969 ; Kritik ; Psychoanalyse ; Jaspers, Karl 1883-1969 ; Psychoanalyse
    Abstract: This award-winning book investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over some five decades, systematically examining Jasper's arguments against Freud and his followers. The book traces the medico-historical roots of Jasper's criticism of psychoanalysis and places it within the framework of scientific theory before devoting itself extensively to medico-ethical aspects of the controversy, which are ultimately treated in terms of a history of mentalities.
    Abstract: This award-winning book investigates the critique of psychoanalysis formulated by the psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) over a period of five decades. His arguments against Freud and his followers are examined from systematic perspectives. The study traces the medico-historical roots of Jasper's criticism of psychoanalysis and then places it within the framework of scientific theory before devoting itself extensively to medico-ethical aspects of the controversy, which are ultimately treated in terms of a history of mentalities. According to this view, Jasper's student Hannah Arendt saw to it that the philosopher be made aware of the socio-cultural impact which psychoanalysis was beginning to have in the USA. The philosopher came to look upon psychoanalysis as a theory - in particular as it was propagated after 1945 in Germany and the US - whose claim to scientific objectivity constituted a serious threat to the freedom of the individual. Max Weber's theory of science and his concept of modernity serve as a critical guide for the interpretation. Thus the normative premise of the investigation is the liberal idea that in a secular and pluralistic society it is ultimately the individual who is to take responsibility for life conduct.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Critique of Psychoanalysis 1913-1920; Life Conduct in Modern Times; Critique of Psychoanalysis in 1931; Critique of Psychoanalysis in 1941; The Founding of the Psychosomatic Clinic in Heidelberg 1946-1949; Critique of Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics 1949-1953; On the Critique of Psychoanalysis and Society 1950-1968; Summary and Prospective View
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4765-7
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    Transforming Unjust Structures The Capability Approach (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402044328
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 19
    DDC: 330.556
    Keywords: Sen, Amartya ; Lebensqualität ; Einkommensverteilung ; Sozialethik ; Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Wirtschaft ; Gerechtigkeit ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sen, Amartya 1933-
    Abstract: " The ""capability approach"" of development economist Amartya Sen, who received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998, poses a major challenge to the dominant paradigm of neo-classical economics. According to Sen, human well-being does not depend on the consumption of commodities but on the freedoms human beings have reason to choose and value. The capability approach has frequently been criticised for a lack of attention to the ways in which unjust social, political and economic structures restrict human capabilities. The contributors to this volume take up this criticism in a number of ways, both theoretical and practical. The theoretical discussion engages with the thought of Sen himself and with the hermeneutical tradition represented by Paul Ricoeur. The practical discussion consists of five case studies examining the effectiveness of the capability approach in dealing with cases of structural injustice. These cover: racism in South Africa, access to labour markets in Europe, participation in higher education in the UK, poverty and welfare reforms in the US, and biotechnology patents. How effectively, ask all the contributors, can Sen's capability approach be deployed in the transformation of unjust structures? "
    Description / Table of Contents: Capabilities and Rights; "Necessary Thickening": Ricoeur's Ethic of Justice as a Complement to Sen's Capability Approach; Structural Injustice and Democratic Practice: The Trajectory in Sen's Writings; "Capable Individuals" and Just Institutions: Sen and Rawls; Justice for Women: Martha Nussbaum and Catholic Social Teaching; Narrative Capability: Telling Stories in the Search for Justice; Promoting Capability for Work: The Role of Local Actors; Enhancing Students' Capabilities?: UK Higher Education and the Widening Participation Agenda
    Description / Table of Contents: Enter the Poor: American Welfare Reform, Solidarity and the Capability of Human Flourishing"Patent Injustice": Applying Sen's Capability Approach to Biotechnologies
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4432-1
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    Contemporary Reflections on Business Ethics (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402049842
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 23
    DDC: 174.4
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Unternehmensethik ; Wirtschaftsethik
    Abstract: Includes a selection of the articles on ethics, business ethics, teaching ethics, agency theory, postmodernism, employee rights, and ethics in accounting and the financial services industry. These articles reflect the author's underlying philosophical concerns and their application to the real-world challenges of practitioners
    Description / Table of Contents: What is Ethics?; The Why's of Business Revisited; Business Ethics: Oxymoron or Good Business?; Aristotle: A Pre-Modern Post-Modern? Implications for Business Ethics; The Religious Roots of Business Ethics; Life Boat Ethics: A Problem in Economic Justice; What's the Point of a Business Ethics Course?; Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty; Why Be A Loyal Agent? A Systemic Ethical Analysis; Employee Rights; Ethical Issues in Financial Services; The Corruption of Financial Markets: Systemic Inevitability or Aberration?; Should Mutual Fund Managers Be Banned From Personal Trading?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Responsibilities of AccountantsFinancial Planning-The New Century Ethics;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4984-2
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    The Concept of Rights (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402039775
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 73
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science Philosophy ; Rechtsbegriff ; Rechtssubjekt ; Rechtstheorie
    Abstract: What does it mean to have a right? Previous answers to this question fall into two groups: interest/benefit theories of rights and choice/will theories. This book proposes an alternative to these traditional views: the justified-constraint theory of rights, which avoids the pitfalls of earlier theories, and solves the puzzle of the relational nature of rights. The analysis shows that this theory applies without modification to past, present and future beings.
    Abstract: What is it to have a right? This book defends an alternative to traditional views, the justified-constraint theory of rights. It also solves the puzzle of the relational nature of rights. It gives a systematic account of an important alternative to the best theories of rights in the literature
    Description / Table of Contents: Rights and Hohfeldian Analysis; Normative Constraints; Deontic and Alethic Concepts; The Relational Nature of Rights; Rights, Reasons, and Persons; Rights Conflict; Right Holders: Present; Right Holders: Past and Future; A Final Comparison
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3977-8
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    Transformation in Higher Education : Global Pressures and Local Realities (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402040061
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 10
    DDC: 378.68
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Business planning ; Südafrika ; Hochschulreform ; Südafrika ; Hochschulreform
    Abstract: This book presents the most comprehensive and most thorough study of the developments in South African higher education and research after the first democratic elections of 1994 that is of post-Apartheid South African higher education. This volume will provide its readers with a detailed insight into the new (i.e. post-1994) South African higher education system. The large number of experienced authors and editors involved in the book guarantees that the reader will be introduced in the new SA higher education system from a large number of perspectives that are presented in a consistent and coherent way.This book will be of interest to scholars, students, administrators, policymakers and politicians interested in South Africa, higher education and research, and policy analysis.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Global Reform Trends in Higher Education; The Higher Education Landscape Under Apartheid; Policy Expectations; Introduction; Funding; Students; Conclusion; Introduction; Staff; Leadership; Conclusion; Introduction; Curriculum; Research; Conclusion; Introduction; Private Higher Education; The Emergent Landscape; Conclusion; New South African Realities; Modes of Governance and the Limits of Policy
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4006-7
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    The death of metaphysics; the death of culture : Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Morality (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402046216
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 12
    DDC: 170
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Political science Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Metaphysik ; Kultur ; Ethik
    Abstract: The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In both interpretations the outcome is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume offers a critical examination of the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis, focused on its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding.
    Abstract: The Latin root of the English word culture ties together both worship and the tilling of the soil. In each case, the focus is the same: a rightly-directed culture produces either a bountiful harvest or falls short of the mark, materially or spiritually. This volume critically explores the nature and depth of our contemporary cultural crisis: its lack of traditional orientation and moral understanding. Prime among the issues at stake are the meaning and significance of birth, copulation, suffering, and death, expressed in debates regarding human embryo-experimentation and stem cell research, the character of moral and scientific norms, as well as more fundamentally, the character of an adequate epistemology for coming to appreciate the deep nature of reality and its normative implications. Given varying background ontological, epistemological, and axiological presuppositions, different moral positions and political objections will appear as not merely morally permissible but as socially and politically obligatory. The volume is addressed to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists and public policy professionals as it critically assesses the increasing void between the traditional Christian metaphysical and moral understandings that guided the flourishing of Christian culture and today's very secular, and frequently empty, cultural backdrop.
    Description / Table of Contents: A ccepting God's Offer of Personal Communion in the Words and Deeds of Christ, Handed on in the Body of Christ, His Church; Whose Nature? Natural Law in a Pluralistic World; Intellectual Virtues and the Prospects of A Christian Epistemology; God Manifested in God's Works: The Knowledge of God in the Reformed Tradition; Holy Knowing: A Wesleyan Epistemology; Subversive Natural Law: MacIntyre and African-American Thought; Is there a Distinctive American Version of Natural Law?; Why did the Principle of Double Effect Appear in the West?
    Description / Table of Contents: How much Guidance can a Secular Natural Law Ethic Offer? A Study of Basic Human Goods in Ethical Decision-MakingOn Women's Health Care: In Search of Nature and Norms; Toward an Inclusive Epistemology; Using Natural Law to Guide Public Morality: The Blind Leading the Deaf; Ethical Life and the Natural Law: Hegel and the Limits of Morality
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4621-9
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    Recordkeeping, Ethics and Law : Regulatory Models, Participant Relationships and Rights and Responsibilities in the Online World (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402047145
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: The archivist's library 4
    DDC: 651.5
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    Keywords: Dokumentation ; Betriebliche Dokumentation ; Elektronische Archivierung ; Datenschutz ; Datensicherheit ; IT-Recht ; Informationsfreiheit ; Law ; Ethics ; Information systems ; Computers Law and legislation ; Regional planning ; Internet ; Dokumentation ; Recht ; Ethik ; Regulierung
    Abstract: This book analyses the interrelationship of recordkeeping, ethics and law in terms of existing regulatory models and their application to the Internet. It proposes an Internet model based on the notion of a legal and social relationship as a means of identifying the legal and ethical rights and obligations of recordkeeping participants in networked transactions. It also provides a unique approach to property, access, privacy and evidence for online records.
    Abstract: Distributed networks such as the Internet have altered the fundamental way a record is created, captured, accessed and managed over time. Law and ethics provide the major sources of regulatory controls over participants in such networks. This book analyses the interrelationship of recordkeeping, ethics and law in terms of existing regulatory models and their application to the Internet environment. It proposes an Internet model based on the notion of a legal and social relationship as a means of identifying the legal and ethical rights and obligations of recordkeeping participants in networked transactions. Medical, business and governmental relationships within communities of common interest based on trust illustrate the practical application of the model. As legal relationships have their basis in the law of obligations found in common and civil law systems, as well as archival science, the model has a broad-based application. The relationship model also provides a unique ethical and legal approach to property, access, privacy and evidence. Most importantly, the book provides an interdisciplinary approach to Internet regulation, which contributes to closer ties between those who research, teach and work in fields of ethics, law and archival science.
    Description / Table of Contents: The recordkeeping-ethics-law nexus and recordkeeping regulatory models; Identity, trust, evidence and the recordkeeping nexus; Legal and social relationships and the recordkeeping nexus; Recordkeeping participants: legal and ethical responsibilities; Property, privacy, access and evidence as legal and social relationships; Legal and social relationships as regulatory mechanisms; Recordkeeping regulatory models in the web environment; Legal and social relationships: an alternative Internet regulatory model
    Note: Expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral - Melbourne) under the title: Ethical-legal frameworks for recordkeeping , Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-328) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4714-2
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    Why Care for Nature? : In Search of an Ethical Framework for Environmental Responsibility and Education (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402050039
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics 9
    DDC: 333.7071
    RVK:
    BK 3350
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Education Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Education and state ; Environmental sciences ; Umwelterziehung ; Umweltethik ; Naturschutz ; Norm ; Umweltethik ; Umwelterziehung
    Abstract: Dirk Willem Postma
    Abstract: What inspires us humans to take responsibility for the natural environment? How do we familiarise children with environmental responsibility? This book looks at a comprehensive inquiry into the ethical and politico-philosophical dimensions of environmental education. It discusses two sources of inspiration and responsibility in particular
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; About the Author; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 1.1 A brief history of environmental education; 1.2 ESD: Research questions and directions; 2. Because we are citizens; 2.1 Future generations as fellow citizens; 2.2 Future generations as heirs of our community; 2.3 Future generations as imagined strangers; 2.4 Education for an open future; 3. Because we are human; 3.1 In defense of an aesthetic account of intrinsic natural value; 3.2 On the status of nature and her evaluators; 3.3 Towards an ethic of environmental responsibility; 3.4 Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: 4. Because we educate citizens caring for natureBibliography; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5003-8
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    MORAL DILEMMAS IN REAL LIFE : Current Issues in Applied Ethics (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402041051
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 74
    DDC: 170
    RVK:
    PI 3580
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Technology Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Angewandte Ethik ; Dilemma ; Recht
    Abstract: OVADIA EZRA
    Abstract: Aims to supply ways of thinking of, and dealing with, the ins and outs of ethical argument. Applied ethics is that intellectual locale where theory meets praxis. This book is designed to make that meeting point explicit, by presenting a series of issues in philosophical formulations
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface; A. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC DUTIES; 1. Privacy and the Public Sphere; 2. The Obligation of the State toward Individuals; 3. Public Security vs. the Right to "Be Let Alone"; 4. Freedom of Expression in Academia and the Media; B. MEDICAL ETHICS; 5. Mercy Death or Killing; 6. Donating or Selling Organs; 7. Genetic Engineering and Reproduction; C. PARENTHOOD AND THE FAMILY; 8. Rights of Relatives and Generations; 9. Procreation after Death; 10. Babies as Commodities; D. PUNISHMENT; 11. Punishment of Sex Offenders; 12. Punishment and Domestic Violence
    Description / Table of Contents: 13. Capital Punishment and the Mentally RetardedIndex
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4105-5
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    Action and Responsibility (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402039829
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 18
    DDC: 128.4
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Handlung ; Verantwortung ; Philosophische Psychologie ; Moralisches Handeln
    Abstract: "What makes an event count as an action? Typical answers appeal to the way in which the event was produced: e.g., perhaps an arm movement is an action when caused by mental states (in particular ways), but not when caused in other ways. Andrew Sneddon argues that this type of answer, which he calls ""productionism"", is methodologically and substantially mistaken. In particular, productionist answers to this question tend to be either individualistic or foundationalist, or both, without explicit defence. Instead, Sneddon offers an externalist, anti-foundationalist account of what makes an event count as an action, which he calls neo-ascriptivism, after the work of H.L.A. Hart. Specifically, Sneddon argues that our practices of attributing moral responsibility to each other are at least partly constitutive of events as actions."
    Description / Table of Contents: Two Questions; Ascriptivism Resurrected: The Case for Ascriptivism; Ascriptivism Defended: The Case Against Ascriptivism; Responsibility and Causation I: Legal Responsibility; Responsibility and Causation II: Moral Responsibility; Foundationalism and the Production Question; Foundationalism and the Status Question: Strong Productionism; Nouveau Volitionism; Weak Productionism; Concluding Reflections on Ascriptivism and Action
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3982-4
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    Responsibility and Punishment (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402041488
    Language: English
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    Edition: Third Edition
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 9
    DDC: 170
    RVK:
    CC 7250
    RVK:
    PI 4510
    Keywords: Ethics ; Ontology ; Criminology ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethik ; Strafe
    Abstract: Responsibility and Punishment, Third Edition presents a clear-headed defense of retributivism against several long-standing criticisms. In the end, a viable version of retributivism emerges as one which withstands more criticism than competing theories of responsibility and punishment. Extending the problem of wrong doing to collectives and compensation, Corlett explores the matter of reparations for past wrongs in the case of the crimes committed against Native Americans by the United States Government. No other philosophical work on responsibility and punishment exhibits this breadth of scope, as it delves deeply into particular concerns with retributivism, responsibility, and certain areas of compensation. Academicians and professionals in ethics, moral, social, political, and legal philosophy are likely to benefit from this analytical treatment of responsibility and punishment.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; The Problem of Responsibility; The Problem of Punishment; Foundations of a Kantian Retributivism; Assessing Retributivism; Forgiveness, Apology, and Retributive Punishment; Capital Punishment; The Problem of Collective Responsibility; Corporate Responsibility and Punishment; Collective Wrongdoing, Reparations, and Native Americans; Conclusion
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4148-9
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    The Selected Works of Arne Naess (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402045196
    Language: English
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    DDC: 198/.1
    RVK:
    CI 8000
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of nature ; Political science Ecology ; Ecology ; Philosophy (General)
    Abstract: Arne Naess is considered one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He has been a prolific author, yet his works as a whole have remained largely unavailable. This work presents an overview of his thinking and provides a collection of this prolific philosopher's principal writings
    Description / Table of Contents: Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_01_Interpretation.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_02_Scepticism.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_03_Which_World.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_04_Pluralist.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_05_Gandhi.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_06_Freedom.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_07_Communication.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_08_Common Sense.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_09_Reason.pdf; Book_Neass_ISBN_1402037279_Vol_10_Deep_Ecology.pdf;
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4519-6
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    Clinical Bioethics : A Search for the Foundations (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402035937
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 26
    DDC: 174.2
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medical ethics ; Ethics, Clinical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bioethik
    Abstract: "A theory of Clinical Bioethics based on the integration of the moral logic of health care practice (""internal morality"") and the larger social concerns and processes (""external morality"") Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations compares major theoretical models in the foundation of clinical bioethics and explains medicine as a normative practice. The goals of medicine are discussed with particular reference to the subjectivisation of health and the rationalisation of health care institutions. This volume provides a consistent reconstruction of bioethical judgment both at the level of epistemological statute and institutional context, i.e. clinical ethics committees and clinical ethics consultation."
    Description / Table of Contents: Clinical Bioethics in a Post Modern Age; The "Telos" of Medicine and the Good of the Patient; The Foundation of Medical Ethics in the Democratic Evolution of Modern Society; A Communitarian Approach to Clinical Bioethics; A Hermeneutical Approach to Clinical Bioethics; A Deliberative Approach to Clinical Bioethics; "A Helping and Caring Profession": Medicine as a Normative Practice; Medicine as a Practice and the Ethics of Illness; The Right to Choose One's Health; The Tension Between Ethics and Evidence-Based Medicine; Maintaining Integrity in Times of Scarse Resources
    Description / Table of Contents: Interpreting Clinical Judgment: Epistemological Notes on the Praxis of MedicineFor an Ethical Function in Hospitals; The Ethical Function in the Health Care Institutions: Clinical Ethics Committees
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3593-4
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    Ethics Expertise : History, Contemporary Perspectives, and Applications (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402038204
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 87
    Series Statement: Philosophy and medicine
    DDC: 170
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medical ethics ; Ethics, Medical ; Bioethical Issues ; Morals ; Philosophy, Medical ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Medizinische Ethik
    Abstract: The complexity of the modern world has led to increasing professional specialization. Experts in a variety of fields, including ethics, offer advice and solutions. But where professional expertise often involves mastering certain facts, ethics expertise is distinct. It is not clear, for example, whether moral expertise consists of knowledge of right and wrong, the ability to articulate implications of moral premises, or the display of an outstanding character oneself. This volume examines philosophical conceptions of ethics expertise from both historical and contemporary perspectives, including applications of ethics expertise in such areas as bioethics consultation, expert witnessing and policy making. It will be of interest to scholars of moral philosophy as well as contemporary practitioners in many areas of bioethics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: In Search of Ethics Expertise; Socrates and Moral Expertise; Aristotle's Moral Expert: The phronimos; Hume on True and False Philosophy; Moral Expertise: A Millian Perspective; The Ineffable and the Incalculable: G.E. Moore on Ethical Expertise; Pragmatism and Ethical Expertise; Expert Moral Choice in Medicine: A Study of Uncertainty and Locality; Societal Consensus and the Problem of Consent: Refocusing the Problem of Ethics Expertise in Liberal Democracies; Ethical Expertise, Maternal Thinking, and the Work of Clinical Ethicists
    Description / Table of Contents: The Roles of Scientific and Normative Expertise in Public Policy Formation: The Anthrax Vaccine CasePhilosophers Return to the Agora; Ethical Expertise in the Clinical Setting; Bioethical Expertise in Health Care Organizations; The Expert Ethics Witness as Teacher
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3820-8
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    The Professoriate : Profile of a Profession (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402033834
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 7
    DDC: 378.12
    RVK:
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    RVK:
    AL 32600
    RVK:
    CW 5500
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    MS 5200
    Keywords: Education ; Comparative Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulunterricht ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This indispensable guide provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America. For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change when the profession is fracturing along fault lines.
    Abstract: This volume provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America. For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change. The profession is fracturing along fault lines associated with gender, tenure, age, rank and system and institutional status. Globalization is also re-shaping the world of higher education, including academic work practices. This book draws upon a major international study of the academic profession, as well as upon new data. Both thematic treatments and case studies of the academic profession in various parts of the world present challenging insights into the tensions in the profession, as well as some of the aspects that, despite all the changes, bind academics in very different institutions and systems, together. Researchers, planners, students and national and international agencies concerned with the changing world of higher education, will find this book an indispensable guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times; Globalisation's Impact on the Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities; Academics and Institutional Governance; Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States; From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The Internationalisation of the Profession; Academics' View of Teaching Staff Mobility; How Satisfied Are Women and Men with Their Academic Work?; Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia
    Description / Table of Contents: Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative PerspectiveImprove Teaching Methods or Perish; The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective; The Academic Profession in Hong Kong; Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3383-4
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    Governing Knowledge : A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan (2005)
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 9
    DDC: 378
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    Keywords: Comparative Education ; Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Studium ; Governance ; Kogan, Maurice 1930-
    Abstract: " In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts. However, strong common themes bind these contributions together. They include not only the significance of massification, globalisation, neo-liberalism and managerialism for the governance of higher education, its knowledge and values, but also the complexities of change processes, the importance of context and history and the strength of the stabilities that remain.The inspiration for this work comes from the career and personal influence of an individual scholar, Maurice Kogan. A central feature of his work has been empirically grounded analysis of interconnections between knowledge, values, authority and power and how these are reflected in institutional structures and individual practices. As a historian as well as a political scientist, he has always insisted on locating contemporary developments in a longer term perspective. This volume is for researchers in higher education studies, students in postgraduate courses in higher education policy and management, higher education policy makers in national and international organisations, higher education institutional leaders, senior academics, managers and administrators. Professor Teboho Moja, New York University, USA: ""It will be an invaluable resource inter alia for higher education students, scholars, and institutional leadership."" ""The book could provide a major contribution to the field of higher education because of the different perspective different authors present and an array of issues as well as frameworks to discuss them.""""This book is bound for the desktops instead of the bookshelves of administrators, researchers, and graduate students. It is likely to be used time and again as readers explore new ways to transform education systems or institutions, meet their needs for program improvement, policy development, and general research. I expect that most readers will weave through the chapters (...) on an as-needed basis, until they have engaged all its excellent content."""
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Distinctive Local Continuities Amidst Similar Neo-Liberal Changes: The Comparative Importance of the Particular; Higher Education in Times of Discontent?; Reform and Transformation Following Regime Change; Change or Continuity in Higher Education Governance?; The Governance and Management of Student Learning in Universities; New Patterns of Diversity in Higher Education: Towards a Convergent Knowledge; The Organisation of Knowledge: Imperatives for Continuity and Change in Higher Education; The Endurance of the Disciplines; Academic Identity and Autonomy Revisited.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3504-7
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    The Christian Religion and Biotechnology : A Search for Principled Decision-making (2005)
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    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 25
    DDC: 241.697
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    Keywords: Biomedical Engineering ; Ethics ; Public Law ; Public health laws ; Medical ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Biotechnologie ; Christentum
    Abstract: Religion is a dominant force in the lives of many Americans. It animates, challenges, directs and shapes, as well, the legal, political, and scientific agendas of the new Age of Biotechnology. In a very real way, religion, biomedical technology and law are - epistemologically - different. Yet, they are equal vectors of force in defining reality and approaching an understanding of it. Indeed, all three share a synergetic relationship, for they seek to understand and improve the human condition. This book strikes a rich balance between thorough analysis (in the body), anchored in sound references to religion, law and medical scientific analysis, and a strong scholarly direction in the end notes. It presents new insights into the decision-making processes of the new Age of Biotechnology and shows how religion, law and medical science interact in shaping, directing and informing the political processes. This volume will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners in the fields of religion and theology, philosophy, ethics, (family) law, science, medicine, political science and public policy, and gender studies. It will serve as a reference source and can be used in graduate and undergraduate courses in law, medicine and religion.
    Description / Table of Contents: Lawmaking and Interpretation in The Age of Biotechnology; Religion: Medico-Legal Norms or Constructs; Procreational Autonomy or Theological Restraints; Freedom of Scientific Investigation; Genetic Enhancement; A Compassionate Death
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3148-3
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    Medical Law and Moral Rights (2005)
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 71
    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Medical ethics ; Law ; Law Philosophy ; Legislation, Medical ; Ethics, Medical ; Morals ; Patient ; Rechtsgefühl ; Medizinische Ethik ; Moralische Verantwortung ; Medizinische Ethik ; Rechtsethik
    Abstract: Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice. Do patients undergoing intolerable irremediable suffering have a moral right to physician-assisted suicide? Ought they to have a comparable legal right? Do the moral duties of a mother to care for and not abuse her child also apply to her fetus? Ought fetuses to be given legal rights requiring pregnant women to submit to medical treatment without their consent? Ought single women, homosexual couples or persons carrying serious genetic defects to have a legal right to procreate? Ought a physician to perform an abortion requested for some frivolous reason? Ought physicians to be permitted to refuse to provide medically futile treatment demanded by their patients? An examination of relevant court cases shows how United States law answers these questions. The author then advocates improvements in the law to make it respect our moral rights more fully. To justify his conclusions, he proposes original conceptions of the human rights to life, procreational autonomy, privacy, equitable treatment and personal security. Thus, these essays test the usefulness of the theory of rights explained and defended in An Approach to Rights and elsewhere.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Defining the Rights to Physician-Assisted Suicide; Glucksberg v. Compassion; A Legal Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide; A Moral Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide; The Concept of Fetal Rights; Maternal Duties and Fetal Rights; The Scope of the Right to Procreational Autonomy; Possessors of the Right to Procreational Autonomy; Medical Futility and Moral Rights
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3752-X
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    Recent Work on Intrinsic Value (2005)
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    Series Statement: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy 17
    DDC: 171.2
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wertethik ; Wertethik
    Abstract: Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intrinsic Value; Isolating Intrinsic Value; Defining Intrinsic Value; The Concept of Intrinsic Value; Should We Pass the Buck?; Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value; Intrinsic Value; Two Distinctions in Goodness; Rethinking Intrinsic Value; A Distinction in Value: Intrinsic and for Its Own Sake; The Right and the Good; Defending the Concept of Intrinsic Value; Objectives and Intrinsic Value; The Bearers of Intrinsic Value; Intrinsic Value and Individual Worth; A Concrete View of Intrinsic Value; Tropic of Value; The Intrinsic Value in Disjunctive States of Affairs
    Description / Table of Contents: Improved Foundations for a Logic of Intrinsic ValueCounterexamples to the Transitivity of 'Better Than'; Defending Transitivity Against Zeno's Paradox; Intransitivity Without Zeno's Paradox; The Structure of Higher Goods; Superiority in Value; Organic Unities; Chisholm's Definition of Organic Unity; The Particularist's Progress; Toward a Theory of Intrinsic Value; The Intrinsic Value of Non-Basic States of Affairs; Harman's Equation and Non-Basic Intrinsic Value; Basic Intrinsic Value; Virtual Intrinsic Value and the Principle of Organic Unities
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3846-1
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    The Edge of Life : Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics (2005)
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 85
    DDC: 179.7
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medicine ; Medical ethics ; Bioethical Issues ; Catholicism ; Personhood ; Philosophy, Medical ; Religion and Medicine ; Right to Die ethics ; Beginning of Human Life ethics ; Menschenwürde ; Lebensschutz
    Abstract: "The Edge of Life: Human Dignity and Contemporary Bioethics resituates bioethics in fundamental outlook by challenging both the dominant Kantian and utilitarian approaches to evaluating how new technologies apply to human life. Drawing on an analysis of the dignity of the human person, both as an agent and as the recipient of action, The Edge of Life presents a ""theoretical"" approach to the problems of contemporary bioethics and applies this approach to various disputed questions. Should conjoined twins be split, if the division will end the life of the weaker twin? Was Bush's stem cell research decision morally acceptable? Are the 'quality of life' and 'sanctity of life' ethics irreconcilably incompatible? Accessible to both scholars and students, The Edge of Life focuses particularly on the controversial issues surrounding the beginning and ending of human life, tackling some of the toughest practical questions of bioethics including new reproductive technologies (artificial wombs), stem cell research, abortion and physician assisted suicide, as well as many of its vexing theoretical disputes."
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; When Does a Human Being Become a Person?; All Human Beings are Persons; How is the Dignity of the Person as Agent Recognized?; An Ethical Assessment of Bush's Guidelines for Stem Cell Research; Moral Absolutism and Ectopic Pregnancy; Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?; Solomon's Dilemma; Capital Punishment and the Catholic Tradition
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3156-4
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    Hermann Cohen's Critical Idealism (2005)
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    Series Statement: Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought 10
    DDC: 193
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Philosophy, modern ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Cohen, Hermann 1842-1918
    Abstract: Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism. The Marburg School was a leading school in German academic philosophy and in German Jewish philosophy for a period of over thirty years preceding the first World War. Initially standing at the front of the 'Return to Kant' movement, Cohen subsequently went beyond Kant in developing a system of critical idealism in which he offered a critique of and alternative to absolute idealism, positivism, and materialism. A critical idealist in heart and soul, Cohen is also recognized as a man who embodied German Jewish culture. Publications on Cohen in the English language are small in number and this volume aims to fill the gap. It offers an analysis of Cohen's System of Philosophy - the three-volume classic on logic, ethics, and aesthetics - and his writings on Judaism and religion. The book highlights Cohen's contributions in these fields, including his discussions with Maimonides, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel. It demonstrates the congeniality of Cohen's critical idealism as expounded in the System and his writings on Judaism, and offers an overview of contemporary Cohen research.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; Helmet Holzhey: Cohen and the Marburg School in Context; LOGIK; Werner Flach: Cohen's Ursprungsdenken; Reiner Wiehl: Identity and Correlation in Hermann Cohen's System of Philosophy; Gianna Gigliotti: Beweis and Aufweis: Transcendental a Priori and metaphysical a prioiru in Cohen's neo-Kantianism; Pierfrancesco Fiorato:Notes on Future in Hermann Cohen's Anti-Eschatological, Messianism; Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky: Hanging over the Abyss: On the Relation between Knowledge and Experience in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin; ETHIK
    Description / Table of Contents: Robert Gibbs: Jurisprudence is the Organon of Ethics: Kant and Cohen on Ethics, Law, and ReligionPeter A. Schmid: Hermann Cohen's Theory of Virtue; David Novak: Hermann Cohen on State and Nation: A Contemporary Review; ASTHETIK; Andrea Poma: The Portrait in Hermann Cohen's Aesthetics; Marc de Launay: The Statue of Music in Hermann Cohen's Ästhetik; Ursula Renz: Critical Idealism and the Concept of Culture: Philosophy of Culture in Hermann Cohen and Ernst Cassirer; RELIGION; Arthur Hyman: Maimonidean Elements in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy of Religion
    Description / Table of Contents: Irene Kajon: Critical Idealism in Hermann Cohen's Writings on JudaismNorman Solomon: Cohen on Atonement, Purification and Repentance; Andrea Poma: Suffering and Non-Eschatological Messianism in Hermann Cohen; Contributors; Index
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4047-4
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    The Enigma of Good and Evil; The Moral Sentiment in Literature (2005)
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    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 85
    DDC: 809.93353
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    Keywords: Aesthetics ; Ethics ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy of Mind ; Philosophy (General) ; Literatur ; Moral
    Abstract: Striking toward peace and harmony the human being is ceasely torn apart in personal, social, national life by wars feuds, inequities and intimate personal conflicts for which there seems to be no respite. Does the human condition in interaction with others imply a constant adversity? Or, is this conflict owing to an interior or external factor of evil governing our attitudes and conduct toward the other person? To what criteria should I refer for appreciation, judgment, direction concerning my attitudes and my actions as they bear on the well-being of others? At the roots of these questions lies human experience which ought to be appropriately clarified before entering into speculative abstractions of the ethical theories and precepts. Literature, which in its very gist, dwells upon disentangling in multiple perspective the peripeteia of our life-experience offers us a unique field of source-material for moral and ethical investigations. Literature brings preeminently to light the Moral Sentiment which pervades our life with others -- our existence tout court. Being modulated through the course of our experiences the Moral Sentiment sustains the very sense of literature and of personal human life (Tymieniecka). Papers by: Tony E. Afejuku, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Gary Backhaus, Alain Beaulieu, M. Avelina Cecilia Lafuente, Predrag Cicovacki, Dorothy G. Clark, Jerre Collins, Michael D. Daniels, Michel Dion, Tsung-I Dow, William Edelglass, Richard Findler, Jorge Garcia-Gomez, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Andrew Jones-Cathcart, Lawrence Kimmel, Ken Kirby, Marlies Kronegger, Megan Laverty, Lew Livesay, Annika Ljung- Baruth, Bernard Micallef, Rebecca M. Painter, Bernadette Prochaska, Sitansu Ray, Valerie Reed, Victor Gerald Rivas, Kristine S. Santilli, Christopher Schreiner, Jadwiga Smith, Max Statkiewicz, George R. Tibbetts, Rosaria Trovato, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Peter Weigel, Raymond J. Wilson III, John Zbikowski.
    Note: "Published under the auspices of the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning , Includes bibliographical references and index , Papers from the 27th and 28th Annual Conferences of the International Society of Phenomenology and Literature, held at the Harvard Divinity School, May 14-15, 2003 and May 12-13, 2004 , Intuition of good/evil in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu: from the axis of time to the axis of desire , Literature and the play of attention: a new/ancient look at the roots of evil , Question of interest? Between good and evil in Instinto de Ines by Carlos Fuentes , Searching for the abandoned soul: Dostoyevsky on the suffering of humanity , Searching moral standards in a love diatribe , Changing landscapes of good and evil in the moral world of Huckleberry Finn , Nature and a calm mirror: Anna Maria Ortese's ethics , Interplay of virtue and romantic ethics in Chang-Rae Lee's A gesture life , Camus' Meursault and Sartrian irresponsibility , Death, truth, and sinfulness: of various characters and scenes in Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Comedias bárbaras , Accusation, betrayal and murder in literature , Autobiography and the impossibility of evil in Kurt H. Wolff's existential sociology , On the fourfold ontology of evil throughout western tradition and its final disappearance in the present time , Dostoyevsky on the problem of evil , Poetry in the cerebral cortex, the nervous system and the digestive tracts: a study of Romanus Egudu's moral poetry , Asymmetry and normativity: Levinas reading Dostoyevsky on desire, responsibility, and suffering , Redemptive gestures of the poetry of Wisława Szymborska , Life beyond go(o)d: a criticism of wisdom and the foundation of a poetic conception of life based on Goethe's Faust , Antigone's (re)turn: the Éthos of the "coming community" , "I know everything": the governess's failures of consciousness in The turn of the screw , Politics of intersubjectivity and the logic of discourse , Literature as the laboratory of the moral life: building moral communities through literary study , Being's wound: evil and explanation in The killer inside me , Paradox of love: the manifestation of life and the moral sentiment in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Her son's wife , Levinas's language , Sympathy for the Devil?: a historical tour of literature and cultural representation , Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling: an experiment in the self-recognition of evil , Beyond evil in Heart of darkness: Levinasian face-to-face as reliable narration , Bartleby's existential reduction and its impact on others , Reading Achille Mizzi: a phenomenological hermeneutics of the Christian narrative , Gilles Deleuze et la littérature: le langage, la vie et la doctrine du jugement , Culture and the philosophy of life: the true, the good, the beautiful, and the sacred , Phenomenology of ethical criticism: how literature affects ethical development , Moral sentiment and the ethics of representation in holocaust literature , Aesthetics of salvation in Sartre's Nausea , "With foolish shadows, with hollow signs": a reflection on subjective perception and personal identity in Hispano-American Golden Age Intrigue comedies , Medicine-dreams of Chief Plenty-coups: a study in phenomenological anthropology , Bizet's Carmen "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle ..." , In search of moral standardsWalker Percy's Lancelot , In search of a moral erotic standard: female subjectivity and eros in Dorothy Canfield Fisher's Rough-hewn and The brimming cup , Morals in history: violence and the ideal of peace , Phantom relations and the writer's niche in Paul Auster's Leviathan , "Some freedom within a small range": Tagore on moral standard , Search for a universal standard of morality: filial piety and its Chinese experience , In first century Rome: a test case of literary influence on ethical development , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Levinas Concordance (2005)
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    DDC: 194
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Ontology ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Philosophy (General) ; Konkordanz ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
    Abstract: This work is the first Levinas Concordance. The particularity of this index is that it covers on all the 28 books published by Levinas in French. The Levinas Concordance comprises the complete list of meaningful words of Levinas' oeuvre and their corresponding occurrences, indicated by book, page and line. The Levinas Concordance contains eight specific indexes: General Index of French Terms, General Index of Proper Names, Index of Hebrew, Biblical and Talmudic Proper Names, Index of Hebrew Terms, Index of Greek Terms, Index of Latin Terms, Index of German Terms, Index of Works.
    Abstract: Covering all the 28 books published by Levinas in French, this book comprises the complete list of meaningful words of Levinas' oeuvre and their corresponding occurrences, indicated by book, page and line. It contains eight specific indexes
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminary; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; General Index of French Terms; General Index of Proper Names; Index of Hebrew, Biblical and Talmudic Proper Names; Index of Hebrew Terms; Index of Greek Terms; Index of Latin Terms; Index of German Terms; Index of Works
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4125-X
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    Territorial Rights (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402038235
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Law and Philosophy Library 72
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    PK 233
    Keywords: Ethics ; Political science Law_xPolitical science ; Political Science ; Philosophy (General) ; Law Philosophy ; Rechtsphilosophie ; Territorialer Anspruch ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's. Curiously, they have largely neglected the fact that nationalism is primarily about land. Should liberals throw up their hands in despair when confronting conflicting claims stemming from incommensurable national narratives and holy texts? Should they dismiss conflicting demands that stem solely from particular cultures, religions and mythologies in favour of a supposedly neutral set of guidelines? Does history matter? Should ancient injustices interest us today? Should we care who reached the territory first and who were its prior inhabitants? Should principles of utility play a part in resolving territorial disputes? Was John Locke right to argue that the utilisation of land counts in favour of its acquisition? And should western style settlement projects work in favour or against a nation's territorial demands? When and how should principles of equality and equal distribution come into play? Territorial Rights examines the generic types of territorial claims customarily put forward by national groups as justification for their territorial demands, within the framework of what has come to be known as 'liberal nationalism'. The final outcome is a multifarious theory on the ethics of territorial boundaries that supplies a workable set of guidelines for evaluating territorial disputes from a liberal-national perspective, and offers a common ground for discussion (including disagreement) and for the mediation of claims.
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionThe collective nature of territorial entitlement -- 'Historical rights' to land -- 'Looking forward to the past' : an analysis of territorial claims based on principles of corrective justice -- 'A land without a people' : an evaluation of nations' efficiency-based claims -- The ethical significance of settlement -- Global justice and principles of equal distribution -- Earth : the final frontier.
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-3823-5
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    Current Debates in Global Justice (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402038471
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    Series Statement: Studies in Global Justice 2
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Current debates in global justice
    DDC: 303.3/72090511
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    MD 4700
    Keywords: Ethics ; Political Science ; Philosophy (General) ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Globalisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Internationale Politik
    Abstract: The papers collected in this volume represent some of the finest recent work by political philosophers and political theorists in the area of global justice. Covering both theoretical and applied issues, these papers are distinguished by their exceptional quality. Moreover, they give the reader a sense both of the scope of the field as it is currently emerging and the direction that the debates seem to be taking. This anthology is essential reading for anyone serious about understanding the current pressing issues in Global Justice Studies. With contributions from: Richard Arneson, Charles Beitz, Luis Cabrera, Omar Dahbour, Robert Goodin, Dale Jamieson, John Lango, David Miller, Thomas Pogge, Sanjay Reddy, Mathias Risse, Gopal Sreenivasan, and James Sterba.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice; Real World Justice; Against Global Egalitarianism; What We Owe to the Global Poor; The Role of Apparent Constraints in Normative Reasoning: A Methodological Statement and Application to Global Justice; Do Patriotic Ties Limit Global Justice Duties?; Duties to the Distant: Aid, Assistance, and Intervention in the Developing World; The Cosmopolitan Imperative: Global Justice through Accountable Integration; Three Models of Global Community; Toward an International Rule of Law: Distinguishing International Law-Breakers from Would-be Law-Makers
    Description / Table of Contents: Preventive Wars, Just War Principles, and the United NationsDoes the Gats Undermine Democratic Control over Health?; Global Justice for Humans or for All Living Beings and What Difference it Makes
    Note: "Derives from a mini-conference held in conjunction with the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Pasadena, California, in 2004"--Introd , Includes bibliographical references and index , Reprinted from the Journal of ethics, vol. 9, nos. 1-2 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3847-X
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    Real World Justice : Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402031427
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource , v.: digital
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Studies in Global Justice 1
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Political Science ; Philosophy (General) ; Social sciences ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Gerechtigkeit ; Institution ; Globalisierung ; Menschenrecht ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Armut ; Sozialeinrichtung
    Abstract: The concept of global justice makes visible how we citizens of affluent countries are potentially implicated in the horrors so many must endure in the so-called less developed countries. Distinct conceptions of global justice differ in their specific criteria of global justice. However, they agree that the touchstone is how well our global institutional order is doing, compared to its feasible alternatives, in regard to the fundamental human interests that matter from a moral point of view. We are responsible for global regimes such as the global trading system and the rules governing military interventions. These institutional arrangements affect human beings worldwide, for instance by shaping the options and incentives of governments and corporations. Alternative paths of globalization would have differed in how much violence, oppression, and extreme poverty they engender. And global institutional reforms could greatly enhance human rights fullfillment in the future. The importance of this global justice approach reaches well beyond philosophy. It helps ordinary citizens evaluate their options and their responsibility for global institutional factors, and it challenges social scientists to address the causes of poverty and hunger that act across borders. The present volume addresses four main topics regarding global justice: The normative grounds for claims regarding the global institutional order, the substantive normative principles for a legitimate global order, the roles of legal human rights standards, and some institutional arrangements that may make the present world order less unjust. All royalties from this book have been assigned to Oxfam.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Poverty and Global Justice: Some Challenges Ahead; Justice, Morality and Power in the Global Context; "Saving Amina": Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue; Poverty as a Human Rights Violation and the Limits of Nationalism; International or Global Justice? Evaluating the Cosmopolitan Approach; Understanding and Evaluating the Contribution Principle; World Poverty and Moral Responsibility; The Principle of Subsidiarity; "It's the Power, Stupid!" On the Unmentioned Precondition of Social Justice
    Description / Table of Contents: Egalitarian Global Distributive Justice or Minimal Standard? Pogge's PositionResponsibility and International Distributive Justice; From Natural Law to Human Rights - Some Reflections on Thomas Pogge and Global Justice; Deliberation or Negotiation? Remarks on the Justice of Global and Regional Human Rights Agreements; Human Rights and Relativism; The Nature of Human Rights; Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation - Weak and Strong; The First UN Millennium Development Goal: A Cause for Celebration?
    Description / Table of Contents: Can Global Distributive Justice be Minimalist and Consensual? - Reflections on Thomas Pogge's Global Tax on Natural ResourcesRedistributing Responsibilities - The UN Global Compact with Corporations
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3142-4
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    Governing knowledge : a study of continuity and change in higher education ; a festschrift in honour of Maurice Kogan (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 140203489X , 9781402034893 , 1402035047 , 9781402035043
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 277 S. , 25cm
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics 9
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Bleiklie, Ivar Governing Knowledge
    DDC: 378
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    AL 11800
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    AL 40000
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    Keywords: Education, Higher ; Educational change ; Higher education and state ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bibliografie ; Festschrift ; Festschrift ; Studium ; Governance ; Kogan, Maurice 1930-
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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