The Future of Value Inquiry
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-90-420-1377-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the nature of values, and the status of value studies, at the turn of the millennium. The contributors, nineteen philosophers from fourteen countries, introduce and defend an enriching variety of views regarding the present state and future prospects of value inquiry.
Reviews / Votes
"students, teachers and researchers will find this new volume very useful." - in: Educational Book Review (May-June 2002)More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1377-3 (9789042013773)
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Persons
Matti Haeyry is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kuopio, Finland, and Head of Centre for Professional Ethics and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has taught philosophy and bioethics in various Finnish Universities since 1985, and coordinated research projects in bioethics at the University of Helsinki. He has been a permanent adviser on bioethics to the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health since 1991, and he has participated in the work of legislative committees at the Finnish Ministries of Justice and Health. His publications include Critical Studies in Philosophical Medical Ethics (1990), Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics (1994), Playing God: Essays on Bioethics (2001), and many articles on bioethics and general philosophy in academic journals and edited collections.
Tuija Takala is Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has taught philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Kuopio in Finland. Her research interests include political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly bioethics. Her publications include Genes, Sense, and Sensibility: Philosophical Studies on the Ethics of Modern Biotechnologies (2000), and articles in Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
Tuija Takala is Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has taught philosophy at the Universities of Helsinki and Kuopio in Finland. Her research interests include political philosophy and applied ethics, particularly bioethics. Her publications include Genes, Sense, and Sensibility: Philosophical Studies on the Ethics of Modern Biotechnologies (2000), and articles in Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
Content
ONE Robert GINSBERG: Value Inquiry as the Future of Philosophy
TWO Amihud GILEAD: What Does Value Inquiry Really Need for the Future?
THREE Andre MINEAU: Value Inquiry and Nazism: Some Considerations on Relativism and Ordinary Morality
FOUR C.L. SHENG: On the Transfer of Economic Value as Legacy or Gift
FIVE Dane GORDON: Value Inquiry, Not a Straightforward Business
SIX Frederick KRAENZEL: Natural Value and Artificial Immortality
SEVEN GERHOLD K. BECKER: In Search of Humanity. Human Dignity as a Basic Moral Attitude
EIGHT Jiang CHANG: Axiology and Ethics: Past, Present and Future
NINE John R. WELCH: Two Types of Moral Dilemma
TEN Jon MILLS: Homo homini lupus. Hegel and Freud on the Future of Humanity
ELEVEN Jozef NIONIK: Arbitrariness and Sense
TWELVE L.D. KEITA: Value in Neoclassical Economic Theory: On Efficiency, Equity, and Human Welfare
THIRTEEN Matti HAEYRY: Happiness and the Friction of Moral Revolutions
FOURTEEN Minoru KITAMURA: Multiculturalism and Universal Values
FIFTEEN Mona ABOUSENNA: The problematic of Values in the Next Millennium
SIXTEEN Pio COLONELLO: Nihilism, Melancholy and Values: A Theoretical Approach.
SEVENTEEN Samantha BRENNAN: The Future and Value of Rights: Rights versus Responsibilities
EIGHTEEN William M. ROBB: Can Value Inquiry Be More Effective with Greater Philosophical Discipline?
NINETEEN William SWEET: Value Inquiry, Cultural Diversity, and Ecumenism
TWO Amihud GILEAD: What Does Value Inquiry Really Need for the Future?
THREE Andre MINEAU: Value Inquiry and Nazism: Some Considerations on Relativism and Ordinary Morality
FOUR C.L. SHENG: On the Transfer of Economic Value as Legacy or Gift
FIVE Dane GORDON: Value Inquiry, Not a Straightforward Business
SIX Frederick KRAENZEL: Natural Value and Artificial Immortality
SEVEN GERHOLD K. BECKER: In Search of Humanity. Human Dignity as a Basic Moral Attitude
EIGHT Jiang CHANG: Axiology and Ethics: Past, Present and Future
NINE John R. WELCH: Two Types of Moral Dilemma
TEN Jon MILLS: Homo homini lupus. Hegel and Freud on the Future of Humanity
ELEVEN Jozef NIONIK: Arbitrariness and Sense
TWELVE L.D. KEITA: Value in Neoclassical Economic Theory: On Efficiency, Equity, and Human Welfare
THIRTEEN Matti HAEYRY: Happiness and the Friction of Moral Revolutions
FOURTEEN Minoru KITAMURA: Multiculturalism and Universal Values
FIFTEEN Mona ABOUSENNA: The problematic of Values in the Next Millennium
SIXTEEN Pio COLONELLO: Nihilism, Melancholy and Values: A Theoretical Approach.
SEVENTEEN Samantha BRENNAN: The Future and Value of Rights: Rights versus Responsibilities
EIGHTEEN William M. ROBB: Can Value Inquiry Be More Effective with Greater Philosophical Discipline?
NINETEEN William SWEET: Value Inquiry, Cultural Diversity, and Ecumenism