Fiona Woollard

Gebundenes Buch

Doing and Allowing Harm

Beschreibung

Fiona Woollard presents an original defence of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing, according to which doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm. She argues that the Doctrine is best understood as a principle that protects us from harmful imposition, and offers a moderate account of our obligations to offer aid to others.

Autor

Fiona Woollard has been a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton since September 2010. She was born and raised in Scotland. She studied Philosophy and Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford, before returning to Scotland to do an M.Litt in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She completed her PhD at the University of Reading in 2008 and then held a temporary lectureship at the University of Sheffield for two years. She has research interests in normative ethics, applied ethics, and the philosophy of sex and pregnancy, and has published on topics including the distinction between doing and allowing harm, climate change and the non-identity problem, the moral significance of numbers, pornography, and the norm of monogamy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199683642
• ISBN-10: 0199683646
• Artikelnr.: 47870635