The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory
Author: Iwao Hirose
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199959307

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Questions about value are important in many contexts. Value theory, or axiology, studies which things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. This handbook provides a comprehensive and state-of-art overview of the debate in value theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
Author: David Copp
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195147790

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The Handbook is a comprehensive reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned articles by leading scholars. The first part treats meta-ethics and the second part normative ethical theory. As with all the Oxford Handbooks, the collection is designed to achieve three goals: exposition of central ideas, criticism of other approaches, and defenses of distinct points of view.

The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory
Author: Haridimos Tsoukas
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780199275250

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2) How has organization theory developed over time, and what structure has the field taken? What assumptions does knowledge produced in organization theory incorporate, and what forms do its knowledge claims take as they are put forward for public adoption? 3) How have certain well-known controversies in organization theory, such as for example, the structure/agency dilemma, the study of organizational culture, the different modes of explanation, the micro/macro controversy, and the differnet explanations produced by organizational economists and sociologists, been dealt with? 4) How, and in what ways, is knowledge generated in organization theory related to action? What features must organization theory knowledge have in order to be actionable, and of relevance to the world 'out there'? How have ethical concerns been taken into account in organization theory? 5) What is the future of organization theory? What direction should the field take? What must change in the way research is conducted and key theoretical terms are conceptualized so that organization theory enhances its capacity to generate valid and relevant knowledge?

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology
Author: Shannon Vallor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2022
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019085118X

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology gives readers a view into this increasingly vital and urgently needed domain of philosophical understanding, offering an in-depth collection of leading and emerging voices in the philosophy of technology. The thirty-two contributions in this volume cut across and connect diverse philosophical traditions and methodologies. They reveal the often-neglected importance of technology for virtually every subfield of philosophy, including ethics, epistemology, philosophy of science, metaphysics, aesthetics, philosophy of language, and political theory. The Handbook also gives readers a new sense of what philosophy looks like when fully engaged with the disciplines and domains of knowledge that continue to transform the material and practical features and affordances of our world, including engineering, arts and design, computing, and the physical and social sciences. The chapters reveal enduring conceptual themes concerning technology's role in the shaping of human knowledge, identity, power, values, and freedom, while bringing a philosophical lens to the profound transformations of our existence brought by innovations ranging from biotechnology and nuclear engineering to artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and robotics. This new collection challenges the reader with provocative and original insights on the history, concepts, problems, and questions to be brought to bear upon humanity's complex and evolving relationship to technology.

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics

The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics
Author: George G. Brenkert
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Total Pages: 747
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019530795X

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The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics is a comprehensive treatment of business ethics from a philosophical approach. Each chapter is written by an accomplished philosopher who surveys a major ethical issue in business, offers his or her own contribution to the issues that define that topic, and provides a bibliography that identifies key works in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory
Author: Iwao Hirose
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2015-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190273356

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Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. Questions about value and about what is valuable are important to moral philosophers, since most moral theories hold that we ought to promote the good (even if this is not the only thing we ought to do). This Handbook focuses on value theory as it pertains to ethics, broadly construed, and provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary debates pertaining not only to philosophy but also to other disciplines-most notably, political theory and economics. The Handbook's twenty-two newly commissioned chapters are divided into three parts. Part I: Foundations concerns fundamental and interrelated issues about the nature of value and distinctions between kinds of value. Part II: Structure concerns formal properties of value that bear on the possibilities of measuring and comparing value. Part III: Extensions, finally, considers specific topics, ranging from health to freedom, where questions of value figure prominently.

Value Theory

Value Theory
Author: Francesco Orsi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1472532929

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A systematic introduction to concepts of value: good, bad, better, worse, valuable, and others, by examining dimensions of value expressed in ordinary usage and philosophical discourse.

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics
Author: Jerrold Levinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2005-01-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780199279456

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'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Free Will

The Oxford Handbook of Free Will
Author: Robert Kane
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 663
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199875561

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This second edition of the Oxford Handbook of Free Will is intended to be a sourcebook and guide to current work on free will and related subjects. Its focus is on writings of the past forty years, in which there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional issues about the freedom of the will in the light of new developments in the sciences, philosophy and humanistic studies. Special attention is given to research on free will of the first decade of the twenty-first century since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook. All the essays have been newly written or rewritten for this volume. In addition, there are new essayists and essays surveying topics that have become prominent in debates about free will in the past decade, including new work on the relation of free will to physics, the neurosciences, cognitive science, psychology and empirical philosophy, new versions of traditional views (compatibilist, incompatibilist, libertarian, etc.) and new views (e.g., revisionism) that have emerged. The twenty-eight essays by prominent international scholars and younger scholars cover a host of free will related issues, such as moral agency and responsibility, accountability and blameworthiness in ethics, autonomy, coercion and control in social theory, criminal liability, responsibility and punishment in legal theory, issues about the relation of mind to body, consciousness and the nature of action in philosophy of mind and the cognitive and neurosciences, questions about divine foreknowledge, providence and human freedom in philosophy of religion, and general metaphysical questions about necessity and possibility, determinism, time and chance, quantum reality, causation and explanation.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion
Author: Peter Goldie
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2009-12-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199235015

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This Handbook presents thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from the most notable writers on philosophy of emotion today. Anyone working on the nature of emotion, its history, or its relation to reason, self, value, or art, whether at the level of research or advanced study, will find the book an unrivalled resource and a fascinating read.