Introduction to Information Systems or Boundaries and Allegiances

Introduction to Information Systems

Author: Judith C Simon

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Aimed at undergraduate as well as graduate students, this text presents an introduction to information systems and their use in business. Topics include the components of an information system, the use of the Internet for electronic commerce, system software and hardware, and working with information systems developers. Each chapter contains a management perspective, a global perspective, and an ethical or social perspective. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Boundaries and Allegiances: Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal Thought

Author: Samuel Scheffler

This exceptional work--a collection of eleven essays by one of the most fascinating moral philosophers currently writing--explores a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal political philosophy. The essays address the capacity of liberal thought, and of the moral traditions on which it draws, to accommodate a variety of challenges posed by the changing circumstances of the modern world. They also consider how, in an era of rapid globalization, when our lives are structured by social arrangements and institutions of ever-increasing size, complexity, and scope, we can best conceive of the responsibilities of individual agents and the normative significance of our diverse commitments and allegiances. Linked by common themes, the volume examines the responsibilities we have in virtue of belonging to a community, the compatibility of such obligations with equality, the demands of distributive justice in general, and liberalism's relationship to liberty, community, and equality.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
1	Responsibility, Reactive Attitudes, and Liberalism in Philosophy and Politics	12
2	Individual Responsibility in a Global Age	32
3	Families, Nations, and Strangers	48
4	Liberalism, Nationalism, and Egalitarianism	66
5	The Conflict between Justice and Responsibility	82
6	Relationships and Responsibilities	97
7	Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism	111
8	The Appeal of Political Liberalism	131
9	Rawls and Utilitarianism	149
10	Justice and Desert in Liberal Theory	173
11	Morality Through Thick and Thin: A Critical Notice of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy	197
	Index	217