Victoria Camps (born 1941,

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) is a Spanish

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and professor of

ethics Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns m ...

Career

She obtained a degree in philosophy at the

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, completing her thesis, entitled “ La dimensión pragmática del lenguaje”, in 1975. She has been the vice-rector, lecturer and full professor of ethics at the

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. She has participated in the

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

committees of the Hospital del mar and of the Hospital de la Vall d’Hebron. Between 1993 and 1996 she was a senator for the

Socialists' Party of Catalonia The Socialists' Party of Catalonia ( ca, Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya, PSC–PSOE official acronym) is a social-democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain, resulting from the merger of three parties: the Socialist Party of Catalonia� ...

. She is currently a member of the Bioethics Committee of Spain and collaborates in journals such as “Isegoría” and “Letra internacional”. As a philosopher, she is deemed a very influential author and one of the main inheritors of the thought of philosophers José Luis Aranguren and José Luis Ferrater Mora. Her work and ideas cover a vast arrays of topics, from

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, and from the exclusion of women from work to ideals of well-being and citizenship in the modern state, together with ethics in communication and in public representation.

Awards

In 2008 she became the 22nd recipient of the

Menéndez Pelayo International Prize The Menéndez Pelayo International Prize has been awarded since 1987 by the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) with the objective of honoring those persons whose literary or scientific work has a humanistic orientation and application, ...

Bibliography

* Los teólogos de la muerte de Dios, 1968. * Pragmática del lenguaje y filosofía analítica, 1976. * La imaginación ética, 1983; * Ética, retórica y política, 1983. * Virtudes públicas 1990. * Paradojas del individualismo, 1993. * Los valores de la educación, 1994. * El malestar de la vida pública, 1994. * El siglo de las mujeres, 1998. * Manual de civismo 1998. * Qué hay que enseñar a los hijos, 2000. * Una vida de calidad: reflexiones sobre bioética, 2002. * La voluntad de vivir, 2005. * Hablemos de Dios 2007 written in collaboration with

Amelia Valcarcel Amelia may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Amélia'' (film), a 2000 Brazilian film directed by Ana Carolina * ''Amelia'' (film), a 2009 film based on the life of Amelia Earhart Literature * '' Amelia (magazine)'', a Swedish ...

* Creer en la educación, 2008. * El gobierno de las emociones, 2011. * Breve historia de la ética, 2013.

References

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