Revision history. Download options PhilArchive copy. This entry has no external links. Add one. Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server Configure custom proxy use this if your affiliation does not provide a proxy. Only published works are available at libraries. Is It Good for Them Too? Ethical Concern for the Sexbots. Peter Danielson - - Topoi 24 2 Kathy Rudy - - Hypatia 27 3 Alan Soble - - Paragon House.

Daryl Bem - manuscript. A Sociology of Sex and Sexuality. Gail Hawkes - - Open University Press. Daryl J. Bem - - Psychological Review 2 Timothy F. Murphy - - Journal of Social Philosophy 42 3 Todd Brower - unknown.

Elie Spitz - - Journal of Religious Ethics 29 1 - Extraversion, Sexual Experience, and Sexual Emotions. Why Sex Offending Is Different. Moral Status of Animals in Applied Ethics. Speciesism in Applied Ethics. B'Imagine that you could choose a book that everyone in the world would read.

My choice would be this book. But how should we live? What is there to stop us behaving selfishly? In a highly readable account which makes reference to a wide variety of sources and everyday issues, Peter Singer Taking into consideration the beliefs of Jesus, Kant, Rousseau, and Adam Smith amongst others, he looks at a number of different cultures, including America, Japan, and the Aborigines to assess whether or not selfishness is in our genes and how we may find greater satisfaction in an ethical lifestyle.

Value Theory. Value Theory, Miscellaneous. We aimed to conduct the first controlled study of the effects of ordinary philosophical ethics classes on real-world moral choices, using non-self-report, non-laboratory behavior as the dependent measure. We assigned students in four large philosophy classes to either an experimental group on the ethics of eating meat or a control group on the ethics of charitable giving.

Students in each group read a philosophy article on their assigned topic and optionally They expressed their opinions about meat ethics and charitable giving in a follow-up questionnaire respondents after exclusions. We obtained 13, food purchase receipts from campus restaurants for of the students, before and after the intervention.

We also attempted to measure food choice using vouchers, but voucher redemption rates were low and no effect was statistically detectable. It remains unclear what aspect of instruction influenced behavior. Applied Ethics, Misc in Applied Ethics. Experimental Philosophy: Ethics, Misc in Metaphilosophy. Psychology in Cognitive Sciences. Direct download 3 more. Collection of historical, theoretical and applied articles on the ethical considerations in the treatment of animals by human beings.

Direct download 5 more. Biomedical Ethics in Applied Ethics. Social and Political Philosophy. Utilitarianism in Normative Ethics. If we agree with the notion of a global community, then we must extend our concepts of justice, fairness, and equity beyond national borders by supporting measures to decrease global warming and to increase foreign aid, argues Peter Singer.

Evolutionary accounts of the origins of human morality may lead us to doubt the truth of our moral judgments. Sidgwick tried to vindicate ethics from this kind of external attack. We present evidence from a pre-registered experiment indicating that a philosophical argument——a type of rational appeal——can persuade people to make charitable donations.

The effectiveness of this rational appeal did not differ significantly from that of a well-tested emotional appeal involving an image of a single child in need Small, Loewenstein, and Slovic This is a surprising result, given evidence that emotions are the primary drivers of moral action, a view that has been very influential in the work of development organizations.

We did not find support for our pre-registered hypothesis that combining our rational and emotional appeals would have a significantly stronger effect than either appeal in isolation.

However, our finding that both kinds of appeal can increase charitable donations is cause for optimism, especially concerning the potential efficacy of well-designed rational appeals. We consider the significance of these findings for moral psychology, ethics, and the work of organizations aiming to alleviate severe poverty. Charitable Giving in Applied Ethics. Moral Motivation in Meta-Ethics. What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live?

If we can, what would it be like, and how are we going to know when we have found it? To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to the classic moral philosophy of such By choosing some of the finest pieces of writing, old and new, in and about ethics, he conveys the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live.

From the debates of Socrates and the profound writing of Rousseau to Jane Goodall's reflections on the ethics of chimpanzee kinship and Luther's commentary on the Sixth Commandment thou shalt not kill , this engaging reader offers a complete and thorough introduction to the fascinating world of ethical debate. In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself.

The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive outline of contents and bibliographies of relevant literature, means that the volume also serves as a work Ethical Egoism in Normative Ethics. Singer and Dawson point out that two arguments against abortion, that the embryo is entitled to protection because from fertilization it is 1 a human being or 2 a potential human being, are also used by opponents of embryo experimentation.

They focus on the second argument, evaluating the notion of potentiality as it applies to gametes, to the unimplanted embryo, to the implanted developing embryo, and to the embryo created by in vitro fertilization IVF. They argue that there is a Reproductive techniques necessitate our rethinking of established views about potentiality, and how it should be applied to the embryo in a laboratory.

KIE abstract. In the Brazilian film "Central Station," Dora is a retired schoolteacher who makes ends meet by sitting at the station writing letters for illiterate people. All she has to do is persuade a homeless 9-year-old boy to follow her to an address she has been given. She is told he will be adopted by wealthy foreigners. She delivers the boy, gets the money, spends some of it on a television set and settles Perhaps Dora knew this all along, but after her neighbor's plain speaking, she spends a troubled night.

In the morning Dora resolves to take the boy back. Evolution of Phenomena in Philosophy of Biology. In Animal Liberation I argued that we commonly ignore or discount the interests of sentient members of other species merely because they are not human, and that this bias in favour of members of our own species is, in important respects, parallel to the biases that lie behind racism and sexism. Kagan also Although this view is not a form of speciesism, Kagan seems not to be aware of the fact that it is a view commonly defended by advocates of natural law ethics, on which there is already an extensive critical literature.

Applied Ethics. Utility in Philosophy of Action. This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race.

Biomedical Ethics, Misc in Applied Ethics. Personal Identity and Values in Metaphysics. For more than thirty years, in most of the world, the irreversible cessation of all brain function, more commonly known as brain death, has been accepted as a criterion of death.

Yet the philosophical basis on which this understanding of death was originally grounded has been undermined by the long-term maintenance of bodily functions in brain dead patients.

More recently, the American case of Jahi McMath has cast doubt on whether the standard tests for diagnosing brain death exclude a condition I argue that the evidence now clearly shows that brain death is not equivalent to the death of the human organism. We therefore face a choice: either we stop removing vital organs from brain dead patients, or we accept that it is not wrong to kill an innocent human who has irreversibly lost consciousness.

It is one thing to say that the suffering of non-human animals ought to be considered equally with the like suffering of humans; quite another to decide how the wrongness of killing non-human animals compares with the wrongness of killing human beings.

It is argued that while species makes no difference to the wrongness of killing, the possession of certain capacities, in particular the capacity to see oneself as a distinct entity with a future, does. It is claimed, however, that The application of these conclusions to killing animals for food is then considered, with some passing reflections on infanticide. Death and Dying, Misc in Applied Ethics. In this unprecedented moment, introducing a carbon price would be beneficial both now and for the future.

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Philadelphia: W. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Liliequist, J. Peasants against nature: Crossing the boundaries between man and animal in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Sweden. Journal of the History of Sexuality 1 3 , — Monter, E. Sodomy and heresy in early modern Switzerland. Murrin, J. Things fearful to name: Bestiality in early America.

Noske, B. Hoe heet is een ezelin? Opzij, Feministisch Maandblad 21, Pierson, M. Dark Horses and Black Beauties. New York: W. Regan, T. The Case for Animal Rights. Salisbury, J. New York: Routledge. Singer, P.