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Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment

By Conrad G. Brunk, Lawrence Haworth, and Brenda Lee
Subjects: Philosophy, Environmental Studies, Ethics

Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991.

Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is ...

Writing in Dust

By Jenny Kerber
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Animal Subjects

Edited by Jodey Castricano
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory ...

Clothed in Integrity

By Barbara Paleczny
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Studies in Women and Religion

Barbara Paleczny, herself a daughter of garment workers, tugs at the threads of homeworking in the garment industry to reveal a low-wage strategy that rends the fabric of social integrity and exposes ...

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World

Edited by Gary L. Redcliffe, Marilyn J. Legge, and Phyllis D. Airhart
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Series: Comparative Ethics

Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World is an apt title for this collection of essays in honour of Roger C. Hutchinson who, over many decades, has encouraged and participated in shaping a Canadian contextual ...

Dilemmas of Reconciliation

Edited by Carol Prager & Trudy Govier
Subjects: Political Science, History, Philosophy, Ethics

How can bitter enemies who have inflicted unspeakable acts of cruelty on each other live together in peace?
At a time in history when most organized violence consists of civil wars and when nations resort ...

Thinking the Unthinkable

By Lydia Dotto
Subjects: Philosophy, Environmental Studies, Ethics

An overwhelming majority of climatologists believe there will be significant changes in climate during the next century. Although the rate and magnitude of this change are uncertain, it could happen very ...

Towards an Ethics of Community

Edited by James Olthuis
Subjects: Religion, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Comparative Ethics

How do we deal with difference personally, interpersonally, nationally? Can we weave a cohesive social fabric in a religiously plural society without suppressing differences?
This collection of significant ...

The Moral Parameters of Good Talk

By Maryann Neely Ayim
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Should we not apply the same moral standards to language as we do to behaviour? Should we not demand fair treatment in how others speak to us or include us in conversations?
In The Moral Parameters ...