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  • Ethics & International Affairs

    A Reader, Third Edition

    by Joel H. Rosenthal, David C. Hendrickson, Neta C. Crawford, David A. Crocker, Michael J. Smith, Terry Nardin, Alex J. Bellamy, Robyn Eckersley, Allen Buchanan0, Robert O. Keohane1, Seyla Benhabib2, Alison M. Jaggar3, Joseph H. Carens4, Ethan B. Kapstein5, Robert Wade6, Leif Wenar7, Thomas Pogge8, Mathias Risse9 ...
    The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Better than Human

    The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should we view our biology as fixed or should we try to improve on it? College students are already taking cognitive enhancement drugs. The U.S. army is already working to develop drugs and technologies to produce "super soldiers." Scientists already know how to use genetic engineering ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Better than Human

    The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    Series series Philosophy in Action
    Is it right to use biomedical technologies to make us better than well or even perhaps better than human? Should we view our biology as fixed or should we try to improve on it? College students are already taking cognitive enhancement drugs. The U.S. army is already working to develop drugs and technologies to produce "super soldiers." Scientists already know how to use genetic engineering ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Ideology and Revolution

    How the Struggle against Domination Drives the Evolution of Morality and Institutions

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    In our society there is a constant struggle between powerful, institutionalized hierarchies and people who try to resist them. Whether this resistance succeeds (either partially or completely) or fails, the struggle causes large-scale social change, including changes in morality and institutions and in how hierarchy and the struggle itself are conceived. In this book, Allen Buchanan analyzes the ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Political Tribalism

    How it Hijacks Our Minds and Diminishes Our Humanity

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    Combining hard data with the author’s personal story of a life in the U.S. South and then as a university professor, this book sheds a new light on tribalistic ideologies. Such ideologies are a deeply troubling feature of civic life in America and in many Western democracies as they erode trust among citizens, sow divisions, and pervert a larger pursuit of truth and understanding. Philosopher ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Kindness of Strangers

    Philanthropy and Higher Education

    by Deni Elliott, Lynn G. Beck & Joseph Murphy, Robert L. Payton, W Bruce Cook, Allen Buchanan, Neil Levy ...
    Series series Issues in Academic Ethics
    In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    The thirteen essays by Allen Buchanan collected here are arranged in such a way as to make evident their thematic interconnections: the important and hitherto unappreciated relationships among the nature and grounding of human rights, the legitimacy of international institutions, and the justification for using military force across borders. Each of these three topics has spawned a significant ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Justice and Health Care

    Selected Essays

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    In this volume Allen Buchanan collects ten of his most influential essays on justice and healthcare and connects the concerns of bioethicists with those of political philosophers, focusing not just on the question of which principles of justice in healthcare ought to be implemented, but also on the question of the legitimacy of institutions through which they are implemented. With an emphasis on ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

  • Our Moral Fate

    Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    A provocative and probing argument showing how human beings can for the first time in history take charge of their moral fate.Is tribalism—the political and cultural divisions between Us and Them—an inherent part of our basic moral psychology? Many scientists link tribalism and morality, arguing that the evolved “moral mind” is tribalistic. Any escape from tribalism, according to this thinking, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Evolution of Moral Progress

    A Biocultural Theory

    by Allen Buchanan, Russell Powell ...
    In The Evolution of Moral Progress, Allen Buchanan and Russell Powell resurrect the project of explaining moral progress. They avoid the errors of earlier attempts by drawing on a wide range of disciplines including moral and political philosophy, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, history, and sociology. Their focus is on one especially important type of moral progress: ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Heart of Human Rights

    by Allen Buchanan ...
    This is the first attempt to provide an in-depth moral assessment of the heart of the modern human rights enterprise: the system of international legal human rights. It is international human rights law--not any philosophical theory of moral human rights or any "folk" conception of moral human rights--that serves as the lingua franca of modern human rights practice. Yet contemporary philosophers ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Negotiating Self-Determination

    by Erin Jenne, Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler, Allen Buchanan, Susan Slymovics ...
    Living in the age of American "hyperpower" the relevance of both international law and conflict resolution have been called into question. Hannum and Babbitt, highly respected practitioners in these respective fields, have collected a series of experts to examine the relationship between these two disciplines. Focusing on self-determination, a particularly thorny issue of international law, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD