Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary

📁 Autonomy, Rationality, and Contemporary Bioethics.

✍ Pugh, Jonathan 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Personal autonomy is often lauded as a key value in contemporary Western bioethics, and the claim that there is an important relationship between autonomy and rationality is often treated as an uncontroversial claim in this sphere. Yet, there is also considerable disagreement about how we should cas

Vagueness and Thought (Oxford Philosophi

📁 Vagueness and Thought (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

✍ Andrew Bacon 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald. The epistemology of vagueness concerns the sorts of attitudes we ought to have towards propositions we know to

Discrimination and Disrespect (Oxford Ph

📁 Discrimination and Disrespect (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

✍ Benjamin Eidelson 📂 Library 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about what makes something an act of discrimination, as well as precisely why (and hence when) such acts are wrong. In Discrimination and Disrespect, Ben

Discrimination and Disrespect (Oxford Ph

📁 Discrimination and Disrespect (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

✍ Benjamin Eidelson 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Everyone agrees that discrimination can be a grave moral wrong. Yet this consensus masks fundamental disagreements about what makes something an act of discrimination, as well as precisely why (and hence when) such acts are wrong. In Discrimination and Disrespect, Ben

Nietzsche and Metaphysics (Oxford Philos

📁 Nietzsche and Metaphysics (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

✍ Peter Poellner 📂 Library 📅 1995 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Poellner, Peter

The Justification of Science and the Rat

📁 The Justification of Science and the Rationality of Religious Belief (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

✍ Michael C. Banner 📂 Library 📅 1990 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

In this critical examination of recent accounts of the nature of science and of its justification given by Kuhn, Popper, Lakatos, Laudan, and Newton-Smith, Banner contends that models of scientific rationality which are used in criticism of religious beliefs are in fact often inadequate as