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This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the
modern world. It collects 16 papers that look at this essential
topic from many facets, from the personal to the technological,
from the philosophical to the legal. The contributors examine such
issues as the value of privacy protection, the violation of
spreading personal falsehoods, the digital rights of children, an
individual's right to be forgotten from internet search engines,
and more. The organization of the volume helps provide a nuanced
understanding of this often controversial topic. Coverage starts
with key concepts before moving on to explore personal information
privacy and the impact of new technologies. Next, the papers
consider privacy in different contexts. These include work, sex,
family, crime, and religion. This structure enables greater
engagement with the difficult questions about privacy. Readers will
gain deep insight into the core concepts of privacy as well as its
application to everyday life. This interdisciplinary volume brings
together an international team of scholars. They provide a broad
combination of expertise in law, philosophy, and political science.
Overall, this thought-provoking examination will appeal to
interested readers in both academia and practice.
This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated
normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in
relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it,
philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both
fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as
specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume
include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights
and representation of citizens, general moral frameworks for
addressing immigration issues, the duty to obey immigration law,
the use of ethnic, cultural, or linguistic criteria for selective
immigration, domestic violence as grounds for political asylum, and
our duty to refugees in general. The urgency of the need to discuss
these matters is clear. Several humanitarian crises involving human
migration across national boundaries stemming from war, economic
devastations, gang violence, and violence in ethnic or religious
conflicts have unfolded. Political debates concerning immigration
and immigrant communities are continuing in many countries,
especially during election years. While there have always been
migrating human beings, they raise distinctive issues in the modern
era because of the political context under which the migrations
take place, namely, that of a system of sovereign nation states
with rights to control their borders and determine their
memberships. This collection provides readers the opportunity to
parse these complex issues with the help of diverse philosophical,
moral, and political perspectives.
This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the
modern world. It collects 16 papers that look at this essential
topic from many facets, from the personal to the technological,
from the philosophical to the legal. The contributors examine such
issues as the value of privacy protection, the violation of
spreading personal falsehoods, the digital rights of children, an
individual's right to be forgotten from internet search engines,
and more. The organization of the volume helps provide a nuanced
understanding of this often controversial topic. Coverage starts
with key concepts before moving on to explore personal information
privacy and the impact of new technologies. Next, the papers
consider privacy in different contexts. These include work, sex,
family, crime, and religion. This structure enables greater
engagement with the difficult questions about privacy. Readers will
gain deep insight into the core concepts of privacy as well as its
application to everyday life. This interdisciplinary volume brings
together an international team of scholars. They provide a broad
combination of expertise in law, philosophy, and political science.
Overall, this thought-provoking examination will appeal to
interested readers in both academia and practice.
This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated
normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in
relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it,
philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both
fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as
specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume
include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights
and representation of citizens, general moral frameworks for
addressing immigration issues, the duty to obey immigration law,
the use of ethnic, cultural, or linguistic criteria for selective
immigration, domestic violence as grounds for political asylum, and
our duty to refugees in general. The urgency of the need to discuss
these matters is clear. Several humanitarian crises involving human
migration across national boundaries stemming from war, economic
devastations, gang violence, and violence in ethnic or religious
conflicts have unfolded. Political debates concerning immigration
and immigrant communities are continuing in many countries,
especially during election years. While there have always been
migrating human beings, they raise distinctive issues in the modern
era because of the political context under which the migrations
take place, namely, that of a system of sovereign nation states
with rights to control their borders and determine their
memberships. This collection provides readers the opportunity to
parse these complex issues with the help of diverse philosophical,
moral, and political perspectives.
Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in
detail how capitalism affects the lives of women. Ann Cudd and
Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating
whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an
actually existing economic system it is good for women. In a
discussion covering a broad range of social and economic issues,
including unequal pay, industrial reforms and sweatshops, they
examine how these and other issues relate to women and how
effectively to analyze what constitutes 'capitalism' and 'women's
interests'. Each author also responds to the opposing arguments,
providing a thorough debate of the topics covered. The resulting
volume will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy,
political theory, women's studies and global affairs.
Analyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social
oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory
of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural
hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so
persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive
co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This
answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it
explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their
oppression. Cudd argues that oppression is an institutionally
structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using
direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force.
Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an
economic force that operates through oppressed persons' own
rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of
analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially
insidious because it conceals the fact of oppression from the
oppressed and from others who would be sympathetic to their plight.
The oppressed come to believe that they suffer personal failings
and this belief appears to absolve society from responsibility.
While on Cudd's view oppression is grounded in material
exploitation and physical deprivation, it cannot be long sustained
without corresponding psychological forces. Cudd examines the
direct and indirect psychological forces that generate and sustain
oppression. She discusses strategies that groups have used to
resist oppression and argues that all persons have a moral
responsibility to resist in some way. In the concluding chapter
Cudd proposes a concept of freedom that would bepossible for humans
in a world that is actively opposing oppression, arguing that
freedom for each individual is only possible when we achieve
freedom for all others.
Political philosophy and feminist theory have rarely examined in
detail how capitalism affects the lives of women. Ann Cudd and
Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue, debating
whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal and whether as an
actually existing economic system it is good for women. In a
discussion covering a broad range of social and economic issues,
including unequal pay, industrial reforms and sweatshops, they
examine how these and other issues relate to women and how
effectively to analyze what constitutes 'capitalism' and 'women's
interests'. Each author also responds to the opposing arguments,
providing a thorough debate of the topics covered. The resulting
volume will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy,
political theory, women's studies and global affairs.
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