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Creating the Kingdom of Ends by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: $68.23$56.96Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical... -
Animals and Why They Matter by Mary Midgley 9780820320410
$43.15Animals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human beings and animals and reveals that the too-often ridiculed subject of animal rights is an issue crucially related to such problems within the... -
Moral Vision: An Introduction to Ethics by David McNaughton
RRP: $66.20$58.46This book introduces the reader to ethics by examining a current and important debate. During the last fifty years the orthodox position in ethics has been a broadly non-cognitivist one: since there are no moral facts, moral remarks are best understood,... -
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178677
RRP: $48.75$38.98A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
RRP: $48.65$45.61Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf
RRP: $39.00$30.99Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably... -
Sour Grapes: Studies in the Subversion of Rationality by Jon Elster 9781316507001
RRP: $38.98$29.89Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history and literature, Jon Elster's classic book Sour Grapes continues and complements the arguments of his acclaimed earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens... -
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi 9780190900151
RRP: $74.08$63.51We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a... -
The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am by Richard Greene 9780812695588
RRP: $25.33$16.83Covering everything from Aristotle to ziti, this title explores such topics as: is Tony Soprano a good man?; is Carmella a feminist?; morally speaking who is the worst person on "The Sopranos"; is watching "The Sopranos" harmful to... -
Reasons First by Mark Schroeder 9780198868224
$68.07In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons. The vocabulary of reasons has become a common currency not only in ethics, but in epistemology, action theory, and many related areas. It is now common, for example, to... -
Empathy: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives by Amy Coplan 9780198706427
RRP: $84.81$65.99Empathy has for a long time, at least since the eighteenth century, been seen as centrally important in relation to our capacity to gain a grasp of the content of other people's minds, and predict and explain what they will think, feel, and do; and in... -
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe 9781548051938
RRP: $14.63$12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548051938Author Inazo NitobeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality by Kathryn Paige Harden 9780691242101
RRP: $31.18$21.86A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal societyIn recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have shown that DNA makes us different, in our personalities and in our health-and in ways... -
Training The Samurai Mind by Thomas Cleary
RRP: $42.90$28.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307212Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Religion without God by Ronald M. Dworkin 9780674726826
RRP: $70.10$56.47In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is... -
Death or Disability?: The 'Carmentis Machine' and decision-making for critically ill children by Dominic Wilkinson 9780198799054
$66.75In ancient Rome parents would consult the priestess Carmentis shortly after birth to obtain prophecies of the future of their newborn infant. Today, parents and doctors of critically ill children consult a different oracle. Neuroimaging provides a vision... -
Envy: The Seven Deadly Sins by Joseph Epstein 9780195158120
RRP: $27.28$21.14Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. While each of the other six deadly sins area a guilty pleasure, 'the green-eyed monster', as it is often called, is no fun. Jacob Epstein considers what the experts have written... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
RRP: $39.00$30.99Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may... -
Defending Animal Rights by Tom Regan
RRP: $38.98$31.01A multifaceted response to the question,A multifaceted response to the question, "Do animals have rights?" from an intellectual leader in the animal rights movementAbout the AuthorTom Regan is professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State... -
Ethics into Action: Learning from a Tube of Toothpaste by Peter Singer 9781538123898
RRP: $29.23$22.48More than twenty years after its publication, Peter Singer's Ethics into Action continues to inspire new generations of activists through its portrayal of Henry Spira and the animal rights movement. With a new preface from the author, this edition... -
Parfit's Ethics by Richard Yetter Chappell
RRP: $33.15$28.70Derek Parfit (1942-2017) was one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This Element offers a critical introduction to his wide-ranging ethical thought, focusing especially on his two most... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198854883
$35.16Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty by D. C. Schindler 9780268102623
RRP: $70.20$52.79It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.65$45.61The ethics of a statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $42.90$30.30An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary by Sarah Broadie
RRP: $83.83$79.56Amongst the works of Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics stands virtually alone in speaking not only to classicists, historians of ideas, and technical philosophers, but to anyone trying to make sense of practical human ideals. In this major new... -
Bioethics: The Basics by Alastair V. Campbell
RRP: $38.98$34.50Bioethics: The Basics is an introduction to the foundational principles, theories and issues in the study of medical and biological ethics. Readers are introduced to bioethics from the ground up before being invited to consider some of the most... -
The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility by Professor of Philosophy Dana Nelkin
$220.39The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility is a collection of 33 articles by leading international scholars on the topic of moral responsibility and its main forms, praiseworthiness and blameworthiness. The articles in the volume provide a comprehensive... -
Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi
RRP: $74.00$64.16Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought-those that explicate how we in fact think-must be... -
Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman
RRP: $37.03$27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385262422Author Jacob NeedlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: $48.65$45.61Artful hexameters.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the... -
Hegel's Naturalism: Mind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life by Terry P. Pinkard 9780199330072
RRP: $84.81$52.47Terry Pinkard draws on Hegel's central works as well as his lectures on aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of history in this deeply informed and original exploration of Hegel's naturalism. As Pinkard explains, Hegel's version of... -
The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin 9780801488337
RRP: $54.58$42.26A pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has crowded bookstores with autobiographies and biographies and generated an unprecedented amount of personal exposure. As columnists and reviewers tell us... -
Contractualism by Jussi Suikkanen
RRP: $33.15$28.70This Element begins by describing T.M. Scanlon's contractualism according to which an action is right when it is authorised by the moral principles no one could reasonably reject. This view has argued to have implausible consequences with regards to how... -
Haunted Data by Lisa Blackman 9781350047051
RRP: $50.68$44.09Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data - big or small - is never as simplistic or straightforward as might first appear. Indeed, Blackman argues that our relationship with data... -
Wayne Dyer books' wisdom concentrated: HEAVEN ON EARTH IS NOT A PLACE - IT IS A FEELING: Compendium of Dr. Wayne Dyer's 55+ most significant tenets of life and more by Freiheit Jetzt! 9781075547973
RRP: $17.53$14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075547973Author Freiheit Jetzt!Format PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Utopia by Merlin Coverley 9781842433164
RRP: $25.33$16.77For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society: from Plato to HG Wells, from Cloud cuckoo land to Shangri-La, the utopian impulse has generated a vast body of work, encompassing philosophy and... -
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) by Jordan Erica Webber 9781472137913
RRP: $29.23$20.75WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?These sound like questions from a... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724629
RRP: $29.23$22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724629Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Global Ethics and Climate Change by Paul G. Harris
RRP: $46.78$42.61New for This Edition: Includes recent climate diplomacy and international agreements. Presents current data and information on climate science. Updated statistics; e.g. in chapters and sections that look at poverty and Wealth Expanded learning guide for...