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The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: £12.99£10.24In this groundbreaking work, Kwame Anthony Appiah, hailed as "one of the most relevant philosophers today" (New York Times Book Review), changes the way we understand human behavior and the way social reform is brought about. In brilliantly arguing that... -
Living Together: Inventing Moral Science by David Schmidtz
RRP: £22.99£19.56Is moral philosophy more foundational than political theory? It is often assumed to be. David Schmidtz argues that the reverse is true: the question of how to live in a community is more fundamental than questions about how to live. This book questions... -
Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought by Michael Thompson
RRP: £25.95£21.04Any sound practical philosophy must be clear on practical concepts-concepts, in particular, of life, action, and practice. This clarity is Michael Thompson's aim in his ambitious work. In Thompson's view, failure to comprehend the structures of thought... -
Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction by Matthew Calarco
RRP: £11.99£9.60The rapidly expanding field of critical animal studies now offers a myriad of theoretical and philosophical positions from which to choose. This timely book provides an overview and analysis of the most influential of these trends. Approachable and... -
A Theory of Bioethics by David DeGrazia
RRP: £23.99£19.04This volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of... -
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave by Peter Singer 9781405119412 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.95£2.27Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal... -
In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave by Peter Singer
RRP: £23.95£21.78Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal... -
The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards by Paul Woodruff 9780199356881
RRP: £17.99£13.33We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often... -
Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue by Paul Woodruff 9780199350803
RRP: £15.99£13.33Reverence is an ancient virtue that survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of civility and moments of inarticulate awe. Reverence gives meaning to much that we do, yet the word has almost passed out of our vocabulary. Reverence, says philosopher... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion by Peter Goldie
RRP: £40.99£39.82This volume contains thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from leading figures in the study of emotion today. The volume addresses all the central philosophical issues in current emotion research, including: the nature of emotion and of emotional... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£18.30Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
Why Worry About Future Generations? by Samuel Scheffler 9780198854869
£19.64The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this as a question about our moral responsibilities, and... -
Files: Law and Media Technology by Cornelia Vismann
RRP: £25.99£20.84Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo. (What is not on file is not in the world.) Once files are reduced to the status of stylized icons on computer screens, the reign of paper files appears to be over. With the epoch of files coming to an end, we are... -
The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World by James Garvey 9780826497376 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99£1.98The debate about the existence of climate change seems finally at an end. We now have to decide what to do about it. Here, James Garvey argues that the ultimate rationale for action on climate change cannot be simply economic, political, scientific or... -
The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World by James Garvey
RRP: £22.99£17.44The debate about the existence of climate change seems finally at an end. We now have to decide what to do about it. Here, James Garvey argues that the ultimate rationale for action on climate change cannot be simply economic, political, scientific or... -
The Essence of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Hunter Lewis 9781604190557
RRP: £8.99£7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604190557Author Hunter LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Axios PressPublisher Axios PressWeight(grams) 99gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm * 8mm -
Ethics: " The Philosophy of Right & Wrong " by Edited by Paul F Kisak 9781519288721
RRP: £19.95£18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519288721Author Paul F KisakFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Knowledge and Ethics in Anthropology: Obligations and Requirements by Lisette Josephides
RRP: £37.99£33.38Inspired by the work of world-renowned anthropologist Marilyn Strathern, this collection of essays features contributions from a range of internationally recognized scholars - including Strathern herself - which examine a range of methodologies and... -
Courage: A Philosophical Investigation by Douglas N. Walton
RRP: £34.00£26.97This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit
RRP: £48.99£42.10On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of... -
Ethics in Medicine: Virtue, Vice and Medicine by Jennifer Jackson 9780745625690
RRP: £17.99£16.04How, in a secular world, should we resolve ethically controversial and troubling issues relating to health care? Should we, as some argue, make a clean sweep, getting rid of the Hippocratic ethic, such vestiges of it as remain? Jennifer Jackson seeks to... -
Meaning in Life by Thaddeus Metz 9780198748014
£37.74What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda. He proceeds by examining what, if anything, all the conditions that make a life meaningful have in... -
The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care by Estelle Ferrarese
RRP: £15.99£13.33Estelle Ferrarese argues for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political. Taking the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions his social philosophy by submitting it to ideas deriving from... -
Freedom and Reason by R. M. Hare 9780198810926
£44.76Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.Book InformationISBN 9780198810926Author R. M. HareFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University... -
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change by Stephen M. Gardiner 9780199985142
RRP: £36.49£22.77Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental... -
Foundations of Ethics: An Anthology by Russ Shafer-Landau
RRP: £32.95£29.54A substantial collection of seminal articles, Foundations of Ethics covers all of the major issues in metaethics. Covers all of the major issues in metaethics including moral metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophy of language... -
Mary Midgley by Gregory McElwain
RRP: £24.99£21.78For over 40 years, Mary Midgley made a forceful case for the relevance and importance of philosophy. With characteristic wit and wisdom, she drew special attention to the ways in which our thought influences our everyday lives. Her wide-ranging... -
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord 9780316484923
RRP: £19.99£12.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316484923Author Toby OrdFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm -
The Ethical Demand by Knud Ejler Logstrup
RRP: £36.00£28.21Knud Ejler Logstrup's The Ethical Demand is the most original influential Danish contribution to moral philosophy in this century. This is the first time that the complete text has been available in English translation. Originally published in 1956, it... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics by Harold Kincaid 9780190846220
RRP: £40.99£38.28The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics is a cutting-edge reference work to philosophical issues in the practice of economics. It is motivated by the view that there is more to economics than general equilibrium theory, and that the philosophy of... -
Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His <i>Oration</i> in Modern Memory by Brian P. Copenhaver 9780674238268
RRP: £50.95£41.56"This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture." -James Hankins, Harvard UniversityPico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one... -
The Genesis of Values by Hans Joas 9780745621548
£19.04One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the leading social theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of values in relation to some of the leading figures of... -
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham
RRP: £13.99£10.25How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mean when we talk about finding our soul,... -
Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the College de France, 1980-1981 by Michel Foucault 9781250195081
RRP: £21.00£13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250195081Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Advice from Aristotle by Andrew Younan 9781666735406
RRP: £18.00£13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666735406Author Andrew YounanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence by Angus Fletcher
RRP: £20.00£15.89Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan-and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough-starts with "what if?" Linking causes to effects, considering... -
The Fable of the Bees and Other Writings: Publick Benefits' by Bernard Mandeville 9780872203747
RRP: £15.99£13.36This edition includes, in addition to the most pertinent sections of The Fable's two volumes, a selection from Mandeville's An Enquiry into the Origin of Honor and selections from two of Mandeville's most important sources: Pierre Bayle and the Jansenist... -
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy by Barbara Applebaum 9780739144923
RRP: £44.00£38.64Contemporary scholars who study race and racism have emphasized that white complicity plays a role in perpetuating systemic racial injustice. Being White, Being Good seeks to explain what scholars mean by white complicity, to explore the ethical and... -
How To Analyze People The Art of Deduction & Observation: Reading Emotional Intelligence by Jason Gale 9781686428906
RRP: £16.97£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781686428906Author Jason GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing by Margaret Urban Walker
RRP: £22.99£18.88Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses...