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Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings by Simone Weil
RRP: $35.68$29.90Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science,... -
The Nature of Moral Responsibility: New Essays by Randolph Clarke 9780190883942
RRP: $74.53$61.01What is it to be morally responsible for something? Recent philosophical work reveals considerable disagreement on the question. Indeed, some theorists claim to distinguish several varieties of moral responsibility, with different conditions that must be... -
Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically by Peter Singer 9781631498565 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$22.26Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now, in Why Vegan?, Singer brings together the most... -
From Principles to Practice: Normativity and Judgement in Ethics and Politics by Onora O'Neill
RRP: $52.48$44.48Knowledge aims to fit the world, and action to change it. In this collection of essays, Onora O'Neill explores the relationship between these concepts and shows that principles are not enough for ethical thought or action: we also need to understand how... -
How to be Good: The Possibility of Moral Enhancement by John Harris 9780198707592
RRP: $98.68$97.82'How to be Good?' is the pre-eminent question for ethics, although one that philosophers and ethicists seldom address head on. Knowing how to be good, or perhaps (more modestly and more accurately) knowing how to go about trying to be good, and the ways... -
The Ethical Project by Philip Kitcher 9780674284289
RRP: $58.70$46.52Principles of right and wrong guide the lives of almost all human beings, but we often see them as external to ourselves, outside our own control. In a revolutionary approach to the problems of moral philosophy, Philip Kitcher makes a provocative... -
A Nietzschean Metaethics: Criticism of Some Contemporary Themes in Metaethics by David Emmanuel Rowe 9781498579933
RRP: $178.50$156.47This book develops a novel interpretation of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position (a theory about our practice of ethics). It is, what might be called, a human-centered... -
Unbinding The Heart: A Dose Of Greek Wisdom, Generosity, AndUnconditional Love by Agapi Stassinopoulos 9781401930745
RRP: $37.78$27.22Unbinding the Heart invites us on an inspiring journey of inner exploration to reconnect with our true selves. Born in Greece, a country that celebrates life, Agapi Stassinopoulos learned the essential truths of happiness through the examples of wisdom,... -
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 9781495281792
RRP: $16.70$13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495281792Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life by Jeff McMahan 9780195169829
RRP: $115.50$84.00This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at... -
Partiality and Impartiality: Morality, Special Relationships, and the Wider World by Brian Feltham 9780199579952
RRP: $199.50$156.20Issues of impartiality and partiality are a major focus of debate in moral theory. What demands do the needs and interests of others place upon us? Should our personal relationships and commitments have a special place in our moral deliberations? Or, in... -
Democratic Law by Seana Valentine Shiffrin
RRP: $51.43$43.64In this book, based on her 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers an original, deontological account of democracy, law, and their interrelation. Her central thesis is that democracy and democratic law have intrinsically valuable,... -
Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality by Patricia S. Churchland
RRP: $31.48$25.20A provocative new account of how morality evolvedWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In Braintrust, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of... -
Dao De Jing by Laozi
RRP: $42.00$35.15From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated version of the classic work of Daoist philosophyC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in... -
Rational Powers in Action: Instrumental Rationality and Extended Agency by Sergio Tenenbaum 9780198889564
RRP: $41.98$38.24Human actions unfold over time, in pursuit of ends that are not fully specified in advance. Rational Powers in Action locates these features of the human condition at the heart of a new theory of instrumental rationality. Where many theories of rational... -
The Right and the Good by David Ross 9780199252657
RRP: $58.78$45.97The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral... -
Foucault: The Art of Ethics by Timothy O'Leary 9780826456274
$90.34The work of Michael Focault has been extremely influential in fields as varied as philosophy, history, cultural studies, sociology and sexualilty studies. In his later work, Focault turned to the question of ethics. Working back through history, through... -
The Ethics of Technology: Methods and Approaches by Sven Ove Hansson 9781783486588
RRP: $100.80$92.67Our daily lives are affected by new technologies at an ever increasing rate. It is becoming more and more important to assess future technologies from an ethical point of view, and to do this before they are introduced on a massive scale. Such... -
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hagglund
RRP: $39.90$25.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101873731Author Martin HagglundFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham 9780486454528
RRP: $44.08$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486454528Author Jeremy BenthamFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory by Hugh LaFollette
RRP: $58.70$51.77Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers. A new edition of this... -
A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings by Michael Ruse
RRP: $20.98$17.16Why do we think ourselves superior to all other animals? Are we right to think so? In this book, Michael Ruse explores these questions in religion, science and philosophy. Some people think that the world is an organism - and that humans, as its highest... -
The Categorical Imperative: A Study in Kant's Moral Philosophy by H. J. Paton 9780812210231
$49.90A classic exposition of Kant's ethical thought.A classic exposition of Kant's ethical thought.About the AuthorH. J. Paton was the author of several books, including Kant's Metaphysic of Experience and The Good Will.Reviews"The great merit of Paton's book... -
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume 9780198751724 [USED COPY]
RRP: $79.78$7.58A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts... -
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects by David Hume 9780198751724
RRP: $79.78$77.32A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts... -
The Evolution of Morality by Richard Joyce 9780262600729
RRP: $60.90$59.07Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent... -
Terrence Malick by Robert Sinnerbrink
RRP: $50.38$43.97Many critics have approached Terrence Malick's work from a philosophical perspective, arguing that his films express philosophy through cinema. With their remarkable images of nature, poetic voiceovers, and meditative reflections, Malick's cinema... -
The Fundamentals of Ethics by Russ Shafer-Landau
RRP: $121.78$113.65In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Fifth Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normative ethics,... -
The Moral Problem by Michael Smith
RRP: $62.90$55.88This widely anticipated volume offers a systematic introduction to and striking analysis of the central issues animating current debate in moral philosophy.About the AuthorMichael Smith is Reader in Philosophy at Monash University, Australia, having... -
Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life by Stanley Cavell 9780674018181
RRP: $60.80$48.93Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this... -
Trophy Hunting by Nikolaj Bichel 9789811999758
RRP: $104.98$72.14This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public. Bichel and Hart provide the first interdisciplinary and... -
Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $88.20$71.48Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound... -
Applied Ethics by Peter Singer 9780198750673 [USED COPY]
RRP: $90.28$4.75The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader... -
Applied Ethics by Peter Singer 9780198750673
$96.18The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader... -
Ethics and Business: An Introduction by Kevin Gibson
RRP: $48.28$41.08This updated introduction to business ethics offers a clear and accessible framework for understanding the important and complex ethical issues facing business in the contemporary world. Kevin Gibson explains ethical concepts in plain language, showing... -
Ethics in Practice: An Anthology by Hugh LaFollette
RRP: $102.80$91.62The bestselling and field-defining textbook which has introduced generations of students to the field of practical ethics, now in a new fully-revised fifth edition For more than twenty years, Ethics in Practice has paved the way for students to confront... -
Food Philosophy: An Introduction by David M. Kaplan 9780231167918
RRP: $63.00$48.91Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic... -
Responsibility from the Margins by David Shoemaker 9780198801184
$69.78David Shoemaker presents a new pluralistic theory of responsibility, based on the idea of quality of will. His approach is motivated by our ambivalence to real-life cases of marginal agency, such as those caused by clinical depression, dementia,... -
Rescuing Justice and Equality by G. A. Cohen 9780674030763
RRP: $117.50$94.14In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people's material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the... -
The Wisdom of Tolerance: A Philosophy of Generosity and Peace by Daisakui Ikeda 9781784530921
$44.04What do Buddhism and Islam have in common? And what positive characteristics might Buddhist Japan and Muslim Indonesia be able to offer one another? In this thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion which draws on creative artists and thinkers as diverse...