Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Stephen R. L. Clark, The Political – Biology, Ethics and Politics
Torbjörn Tannsjö, Coercive Care
David Carr and Jan Steutel, Virture Ethics and Moral Education
Laura Westra and Patricia Werhane, The Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Community
David Conway, Free-Market Feminism     

Book Reviews

Books Reviews in this Articles: Reconceptions in Philosophy and other Arts and Sciences The Element of Fire: science, art and the human world Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity Ethics and Environmental Responsibility Values, Conflict and the Environment (Report of the Environmental Ethics Working Party) When Did I Begin? Birthrights-Law and Ethics at the Beginnings of Life Art or Bunk The Values of Psychotherapy     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Ethics and Science. By HENRY MARGENAU. New York: Robert E. Krieger
Belief and Ethics: Essays in Ethics, the Human Sciences, and Ministry in Honor of W. Alvin Pitcher. Edited by W. WIDICK SCHROEDER and GIBSON WINTER.
Nature and Purpose. By JOHN F. HAUGHT. Lanham
Our Fragile Brains: A Christian Perspective on Brain Research. By D. GARETH JONES. Downers Grove     

Once More ≡

Short notices of reissued books:
J. Philip Wogaman, Christian Perspectives on Politics
J. Philip Wogaman, Christian Ethics: A Historical Introduction
J. Philip Wogaman and Douglas M. Strong (eds), Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical Sourcebook     

Reviews

Book reviews in this article: Population, Evolution, and Birth Control: A Collage of Controversial Ideas. Assembled by Garrett Hardin . Updating Life and Death: Essays in Ethics and Medicine. Edited by Donald R. Cutler . Who Shall Live? Medicine, Technology, Ethics. Edited by Kenneth Vaux . Sciences of Man and Social Ethics: Variations on the Theme of Human Dignity. Edited by Marvin Charles Katz .     

医学伦理学概念之探究

医学伦理学的概念看起来很简单,一般情况下人们便习以为常地接受了作为应用规范伦理学的一个分支的科学地位,而忽视了医学对医学伦理学所起的作用。本文认为：医学伦理学的具体内容是医学科技与伦理道德两因素相互作用的产物,对其相互作用的形式和产物的具体分析和总结便可构成这门学科的理论体系。     

Individuals and technology: Gilbert Simondon,from Ontology to Ethics to Feminist Bioethics

Two key themes structure the work of French philosopher of science Gilbert Simondon: the processes of individuation and the nature of technical objects. Moreover, these two themes are also at the heart of contemporary debates within Ethics and Bioethics. Indeed, the question of the individual is a key concern in both Virtue Ethics and Feminist Ethics of Care, while the hyper-technical reality of the present stage of medical technology is a key reason for both the urgency for and the success of the field of Bioethics. And yet, despite its potential for thinking about these issues, Simondon’s philosophy remains largely unknown. Rather than exploring Simondon’s complex ontology for itself, the aim of this paper is to establish what contribution his work can make in Ethics and Bioethics on two essential questions: the relational structure of the self and the nature of the human-technology relation. I argue that Simondon’s re-conceptualization of the individual harmonizes with perspectives in Feminist Bioethics (particularly the Ethics of Care) and points toward what I call an “open” Virtue Ethics that takes relations to be essential. In order to establish this connection, I explore at length the relational approach to Feminist Bioethics offered by Susan Sherwin’s work. I argue that a Simondonian account of technology and of the individual furthers the relational understanding of the self, offers a characterization of Virtue Ethics that is in harmony with the Ethics of Care, and clarifies a notion of responsibility that is implicated in the complex reality of the modern technological milieu.     

Should Moral Machines be Banned? A Commentary on van Wynsberghe and Robbins “Critiquing the Reasons for Making Artificial Moral Agents”

Science and Engineering Ethics - In a stimulating recent article for this journal (van Wynsberghe and Robbins in Sci Eng Ethics 25(3):719–735. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0030-8 ,...     

Book Reviews

Garrett Cullity and Berys Gaut (eds), Ethics and Practical Reason
Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics: a Defence of Conceptual Analysis
John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, Responsibility and Control: a Theory of Moral Responsibility
Ruth Chang, Incommensurability, Incomparability, and Practical Reason
Mary Warnock, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
R.A. Duff, Criminal Attempts
Derek Bolton and Jonathan Hill, Mind, Meaning and Mental Disorder: the Nature of Causal Explanation in Psychology and Psychiatry
David Archard, Sexual Consent
Matthew Kieran, Media Ethics: a Philosophical Approach
John Cottingham, Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics
Richard Swinburne, Providence and the Problem of Evil
Simon Glendinning, On Being with Others: Heidegger – Derrida – Wittgenstein     

Comment by Arvind Sharma

Comments on:
JRE Focus on The 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights, Journal of Religious Ethics 26.2 (Fall 1998)
"Rethinking Human Rights: A Review Essay on Religion, Relativism, and Other Matters" by David Little, Journal of Religious Ethics 27.1 (Spring 1999)     

公司丑闻、公司责任和新闻媒体:我们该相信谁?——美国经济伦理杂志2005年4月21日经济伦理纽约高峰会议综述

美国《经济伦理杂志》主办的2005年经济伦理高峰会议,在纽约Helmsley会议中心召开,这次会议是首次将经济伦理和企业社会责任学术会议聚焦于新闻媒体。大会有代表性的主题发言主要有三个方面:1、《华尔街杂志》、《纽约时报》资深经济评论主笔对媒体曝光公司丑闻的辩护;2、假定的诚信与过分简单化报导的危险;3、经济伦理杂志抽样调查结果对新闻媒体表现的评价。     

Rival reading: Deleuze on Hume

Book Information Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism. Environmental Philosophy and Ethics in Buddhism Padmasiri de Silva London Macmillan Press 1998 xviii + 195 Hardback AUS$69.95 By Padmasiri de Silva. Macmillan Press. London. Pp. xviii + 195. Hardback:AUS$69.95,     

Space curvature and repeatable properties,almost no problems with a peaceful coexistence

Book Information On Virtue Ethics. On Virtue Ethics Rosalind Hursthouse Oxford Oxford University Press 1999 ix + 275 Hardback £25 By Rosalind Hursthouse. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Pp. ix + 275. Hardback:£25,     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
David B. Burrell, Friendship and Ways to Truth
Graham Ward, Cities of God
Timothy J. Gorringe, Karl Barth: Against Hegemony
Peter Geach, Truth and Hope
Craig A. Carter, The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder
Gavin D'Costa, The Meeting of Religions and the Trinity
Jeffrey Stout, Ethics after Babel
Robert S. Corrington, A Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy     

Book Reviews

Book Reviews in this Article: The Grounds of Professional Ethics Daryl Koehn . Zoos and Animal Rights: The Ethics of Keeping Animals Stephen St. C. Bostock . How Are We to Live? Peter Singer . Freedom and Fulfilment: philosophical essays Joel Feinberg . In Harm's Way: Essays in honor of Joel Feinberg Jules Coleman and Allen Buchanan . Religion and Morality, Value Inquiry Book Series, Vol. 26 Avi Sagi and Daniel Statman .     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Philosophical Explanations, by Robert Nozick
Wittgenstein: Language and World, by John V. Canfield
Wittgenstein and his Times, edited by Brian McGuinness
Through a Darkening Glass by D. Z. Phillips
Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics, by R. G. Frey.
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, by Peter Singer
G. Stuart Watts, The Revolution of Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and Some "Ultimate Questions" (Sydney, Hale & Iremonger; 1982)     

Book Reviews

Onora O’Neill Towards Justice and Virtue: a Constructive Account of Practical Reasoning J. Keown (ed.) Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives E. J. Bond Ethics and Human Well-Being H. J. Reiss and R. Straughan Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Alasdair Macintyre, Dependent Rational Animals. Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
Mark Rowlands, Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence
F. Barbara Orlans, Tom L. Beauchamp, Rebecca Dresser, David B. Morton and John P. Gluck, The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice
Dale Jamieson (ed.), Singer and his Critics
Peter Singer, Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement
Melinda A. Roberts, Child versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law
Roger Brownswood, W. R. Cornish and Margaret Llewelyn (eds.), Law and Human Genetics: Regulating a Revolution     

Review

Book reviewed in this article:
Jean Porter, Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics     

The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics

Book reviewed in this article:
John E. Colwell, Living the Christian Story: The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics