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The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome by Jenny Reardon
RRP: $65.10$63.40While the sequencing of the human genome was a landmark achievement, the availability and manipulation of such a vast amount of data about our species has inevitably led to questions that are increasingly fundamental and urgent: now that information... -
On Killing Remotely: The Psychology of Killing with Drones by Lieutenant Colonel Wayne Phelps
RRP: $46.20$35.85Throughout history society has determined specific rules of engagement between adversaries in armed conflict. With advances in technology, from armor to in the Middle Ages to nerve gas in World War I to weapons of mass destruction in our own time, the... -
Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic by Serene J. Khader 9780190664206
RRP: $75.58$55.23Decolonizing Universalism argues that feminism can respect cultural and religious differences and acknowledge the legacy of imperialism without surrendering its core ethical commitments. Transcending relativism/ universalism debates that reduce feminism... -
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: $86.08$57.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533750Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 620g -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton 9780691168753
RRP: $42.00$33.37A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary... -
Six Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics by Karen Lebacqz 9780806622453
$27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806622453Author Karen LebacqzFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g -
Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality: Volume 8 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $46.18$38.58Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayistic period (1872-76), the stylized forays and jabs of the aphoristic period (1878-82), and the... -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231181624
RRP: $63.00$49.75Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing... -
Love and the Dignity of Human Life: On Nature and Natural Law by Robert Spaemann 9780802866936
RRP: $25.18$18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802866936Author Robert SpaemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Martin Buber's Dialogue: Discovering Who We Really Are by Kenneth Paul Kramer 9781532665752
RRP: $42.00$31.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532665752Author Kenneth Paul KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures by Dominic McIver Lopes 9780199277346
$179.13Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts... -
Fish Feel Pain!: Scrutiny of a Dogma by Alexander Schwab 9781913159733
RRP: $31.50$26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159733Author Alexander SchwabFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 2: Offense to Others by Joel Feinberg 9780195052152
RRP: $83.98$58.57Offense to Others is the second volume of Joel Feinberg's magisterial work, The Moral Limits of Criminal Law, a four-volume work that addresses the question: what kinds of conduct may the state make criminal without infringing on the moral autonomy of... -
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham 9781978106222
RRP: $15.20$13.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978106222Author Jeremy BenthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Handbook of Professional Ethical and Research Practice for Psychologists, Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Psychiatrists by Rachel Tribe 9781138352087
RRP: $73.48$64.79This exciting new edition provides an overview of the main professional, ethical and research issues that are required knowledge for counsellors, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists engaging in therapeutic or clinical work. These issues form part... -
The Mark of the Sacred by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
RRP: $46.18$36.83Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying," has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of... -
The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch 9780415854733
RRP: $54.58$47.52Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather... -
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy by Khaled El-Rouayheb 9780190070076
RRP: $86.08$80.39The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised... -
Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind: Moral Education in the late Scottish Enlightenment by Charles Bradford Bow 9780192865380
RRP: $159.60$145.11Dugald Stewart's Empire of the Mind recasts the cultivation of a democratic intellect in the late Scottish Enlightenment. It comprises an intellectual history of what was at stake in moral education during a transitional period of revolutionary change... -
Moralia: v.13 by Plutarch
RRP: $52.40$49.12Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given... -
Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy 9780062278791
RRP: $46.20$27.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062278791Author Lecturer in Chemistry John F KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
$36.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601753Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Cosmopolitan War by Cecile Fabre 9780198708575
RRP: $73.48$56.39War is about individuals maiming and killing each other, and yet, it seems that it is also irreducibly collective, as it is fought by groups of people and more often than not for the sake of communal values such as territorial integrity and national... -
Situation Ethics: The New Morality by Joseph Fletcher 9780664257613
RRP: $60.90$44.75Igniting a firestorm of controversy upon its publication in 1966, Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics was hailed by many as a much-needed reformation of morality--and as an invitation to anarchy by others. Proposing an ethic of loving concern, Fletcher... -
Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics by Roger Teichmann 9781839980930
RRP: $168.00$160.61The essays in Logos and Life, mainly dating from 2014 and later, cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. There are numerous strands connecting these four areas, which Roger Teichmann highlights: in... -
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall 9780199729883
RRP: $48.28$36.98This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does... -
Ultimate Questions by Bryan Magee 9780691170657
RRP: $29.38$23.98We human beings had no say in existing--we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here. We have a fundamental need to understand who we are and the world we live in. Reason takes us a long way, but mystery remains. When our minds and senses are... -
Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death by Marc Crepon
RRP: $62.98$55.65Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as... -
The Trolley Problem or Would You Throw the Fat Guy off the Bridge? by Thomas Cathcart 9780761175131
RRP: $23.08$17.41A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a lone individual. You, a bystander, happen to be standing next to a switch that could divert the trolley, which would save the five, but sacrifice the one-do... -
On Duties by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9781944482114
RRP: $25.18$17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944482114Author Marcus Tullius CiceroFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Roman Roads MediaPublisher Roman Roads MediaWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
The Erotic Phenomenon by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: $50.40$48.36While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means "love of wisdom," but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. In "The... -
On Escape: De l'evasion by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804741408
RRP: $39.88$31.65First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a... -
Who Needs a World View? by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $67.10$52.86One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems-the perceived need for a world view.We live in a unitary cosmos created and cared for in all its details by a benevolent god. That, for... -
Madness: A Philosophical Exploration by Justin Garson 9780197613832
RRP: $147.00$124.91Since the time of Hippocrates, madness has typically been viewed through the lens of disease, dysfunction, and defect. Madness, like all other disease, happens when something in the mind, or in the brain, does not operate the way that it should or as... -
The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims by Thomas Bailey Saunders 9781548157968
RRP: $17.30$14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548157968Author Thomas Bailey SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Faith of the Faithless: Experiments on Political Theology by Simon Critchley
RRP: $20.98$17.16The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a... -
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5: January 1794 to December 1797 by Jeremy Bentham 9781911576235
RRP: $94.50$83.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911576235Author Jeremy BenthamFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 830g -
Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy by Madison Powers
RRP: $76.63$56.51In bioethics, discussions of justice have tended to focus on questions of fairness in access to health care: is there a right to medical treatment, and how should priorities be set when medical resources are scarce. But health care is only one of many... -
Work: Theological Foundations and Practical Implications by R. Keith Loftin 9780334055297
RRP: $69.30$67.14Moving from biblical theology to systematic theology to practical theology, "Work: Theological Foundations and Practical Implications" offers a comprehensive theology of work. With contributions from a variety of leading theologians including... -
Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond by David J. Gunkel 9780262546157
$92.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546157Author David J. GunkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd