In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Many people, including a number of philosophers, believe that results from neuros...
S. Matthew Liao
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Oxford University Press
0199357676
9780199357673
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S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is t...
S. Matthew Liao
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272
Oxford University Press
0190234830
9780190234836
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S. Matthew Liao
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Oxford University Press
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Volunteer management has many challenges, not the least of which is how we study it and view it. Academics examine it from a variety of disciplines and practitioners experience it in a variety of contexts. However both approaches have limitations. In academia we go to public administration schools t...
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292
Information Age Publishing
1593119240
9781593119249
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Advances in our scientific understanding and technological power in recent decades have dramatically amplified our capacity to intentionally manipulate complex ecological and biological systems. An implication of this is that biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approac...
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Lexington Books
0739184873
9780739184875
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What makes something a human right? What is the relationship between the moral foundations of human rights and human rights law? What are the difficulties of appealing to human rights?This book offers the first comprehensive survey of current thinking on the philosophical foundations of human rights...
Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao, Massimo Renzo
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720
Oxford University Press
019968863X
9780199688630
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Bioethics is the study of ethical issues arising out of advances in the life sciences and medicine. Historically, bioethics has been associated with issues in research ethics and clinical ethics as a result of research scandals such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and public debates about the definit...
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200
Routledge
1138855820
9781138855823
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S. Matthew Liao (born 1972) is a philosopher known for his work on defending the right of children to be loved. He obtained his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford