Ethical Issues & Debates

This book focuses on regulatory challenges of creating and sustaining freedom of speech and freedom of information two decades after the fall of th...

Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity. From fingerp...

There is a growing awareness among researchers in the humanities and social sciences of the rhetorical force of mathematical discourse—whether in r...

Transhumanism is widely misunderstood, in part because the media have exaggerated current technologies and branded the movement as dangerous, leadi...

Sound and statuary have had a complicated relationship in Western aesthetic thought since antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding statue—a type...

As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or d...

This book examines the question of what we mean when we talk about life, revealing new insights into what life is, what it does, and why it matters...

A 2015 survey of twenty-seven elite colleges found that twenty-three percent of respondents reported personal experiences of sexual misconduct on t...

Only a few years after the 2013 Sundance Film Festival premiere of Blackfish - an independent documentary film that critiqued the treatment of orca...

Slavery is a live issue today, but the people who talk about it as such are not all of a piece. Some insist the world is now plagued by the contemp...

Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. ...

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work throu...