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Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy by Martin Rhonheimer 9780823219780
£96.97Rhonheimer applies moral theology to practical questions, such as, what does it mean to violate the natural law, or to be "unnatural"?Book InformationISBN 9780823219780Author Martin RhonheimerFormat HardbackPage Count 620Imprint Fordham... -
Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body by Ralph Acampora 9780822963233
£46.14Most approaches to animal ethics ground the moral standing of nonhumans in some appeal to their capacities for intelligent autonomy or mental sentience. Corporal Compassion emphasizes the phenomenal and somatic commonality of living beings; a philosophy... -
Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism by Mitchell Aboulafia 9780804770194
£98.16Notions of self-determination are central to modern politics, yet the relationship between the self-determination of individuals and peoples has not been adequately addressed, nor adequately allied to cosmopolitanism. Transcendence seeks to rectify this... -
John Locke's Moral Revolution: From Natural Law to Moral Relativism by Samuel Zinaich 9780761833758
RRP: £47.00£41.20Contrary to the long-cherished opinion of John Locke's infatuation with natural law, there is abundant proof that the amount of intellectual energy Locke devoted to his philosophical views was nowhere as narrow as the attempt to justify a natural law... -
Face to Face in Dialogue: Emmanuel Levinas and (the) Communication (of) Ethics by Jeffrey S. Murray 9780761826590
RRP: £59.00£51.45As the title indicates, Face to Face in Dialogue: Emmanuel Levinas and (the) Communication (of) Ethics is about a transformation. It is about a transformation from thinking about the ethics of communication to thinking about the communication of ethics... -
Joss Whedon as Philosopher by Dean Kowalski 9780739196656
RRP: £95.00£83.52In this book, Dean Kowalski argues that filmmakers can "do" philosophy when creating a fictional narrative film, and utilizes a careful and extensive analysis of Joss Whedon's fictive creations-Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly,... -
Greek Heroes in and out of Hades by Stamatia G. Dova 9780739192856
RRP: £45.00£39.49Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in... -
Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management by Christopher J. Preston 9780739190548
RRP: £45.00£39.49Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced... -
The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Carol Rovane 9780691655055
£112.45The subject of personal identity is one of the most central and most contested and exciting in philosophy. Ever since Locke, psychological and bodily criteria have vied with one another in conflicting accounts of personal identity. Carol Rovane argues... -
A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III: Metaphilosophical Inquiries by Nicholas Rescher 9780691636672
£108.70This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect... -
Immorality by Ronald Dmitri Milo 9780691640365
£112.65This book explores a much-neglected area of moral philosophy--the typology of immorality. Ronald D. Milo questions the adequacy of Aristotle's suggestion that there are two basic types of immorality--wickedness and moral weakness--and argues that we must... -
The Greeks and Us: Essays in Honor of Arthur W. H. Adkins by Robert B. Louden 9780226493954
RRP: £32.00£31.11Arthur W. H. Adkins's writings have sparked debates among a wide range of scholars over the nature of ancient Greek ethics and its relevance to modern times. The essays in this volume show how leading classicists, philosophers, legal theorists, and... -
Debating Same-Sex Marriage by John Corvino 9780199756322
£118.55As the uproar over the recent New York State law demonstrates, same-sex marriage is a perennial hot-button issue, certain to impact the 2012 election. Debating Same-Sex Marriage provides a useful roadmap to both sides of this contentious matter. Taking a... -
Is a Little Pollution Good for You?: Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research by Kevin C. Elliott 9780199755622
RRP: £92.00£81.03Could low-level exposure to polluting chemicals be analogous to exercise-a beneficial source of stress that strengthens the body? Some scientists studying the phenomenon of hormesis (beneficial or stimulatory effects caused by low-dose exposure to toxic... -
Morality, Competition, and the Firm: The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics by Joseph Heath 9780199990481
RRP: £107.50£77.00In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 3 by Mark Timmons 9780199685912
RRP: £41.99£41.74Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches... -
Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics by Timothy Chappell 9780199684854
£90.74Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. His question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer he defends is 'By... -
Moral Aggregation by Iwao Hirose 9780199933686
£76.20Some ethical theories tolerate or require aggregation -- a trade-off between benefits to a group of individuals and losses to another group of individuals. Since aggregation is an essential feature of utilitarianism, many critics of utilitarianism --... -
The Morality of Defensive War by Cecile Fabre 9780199682836
£72.16Most of us take it for granted that wars in defence of one's political community are the quintessential just wars. Indeed, while in recent years philosophers have subjected all of our other assumptions about just war theory to radical revision, this... -
On Loving Our Enemies: Essays in Moral Psychology by Jerome Neu 9780199862986
£89.34This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action. Can there be an ethics of emotion or an ethics of fantasy? If what we feel and what we think are beyond the direct control of our will, does it make... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 8 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199678051
£30.16Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes... -
Confronting Injustice: Moral History and Political Theory by David Lyons 9780199662555
£80.23The essays presented in this volume challenge both theorists and citizens to confront grave injustices committed in the United States. David Lyons encourages us to take a fresh look at the beginnings of America, including the colonists' early adoption of... -
From Morality to Metaphysics: The Theistic Implications of our Ethical Commitments by Angus Ritchie 9780199652518
£77.21From Morality to Metaphysics offers an argument for the existence of God, based on our most fundamental moral beliefs. Angus Ritchie engages with a range of the most significant secular moral philosophers of our time, and argues that they all face a... -
Meaning in Life by Thaddeus Metz 9780199599318
£90.74What 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... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 5 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199588602
RRP: £47.99£47.55Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes... -
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy by J. B. Schneewind 9780199576678
RRP: £48.99£48.91J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume Four by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199566310
RRP: £39.99£39.81Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes... -
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy by J. B. Schneewind 9780199563012
£61.13J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth... -
Value, Reality, and Desire by Graham Oddie 9780199562381
RRP: £46.49£46.11Value, Reality, and Desire is an extended argument for a robust realism about value. The robust realist affirms the following distinctive theses. There are genuine claims about value which are true or false - there are facts about value. These... -
Making Morality Work by Holly M. Smith 9780199560080
£77.61Most of us hope to do what morality requires of us. But what if we can't figure out what it does require? A soldier may know that morality requires him not to kill an innocent civilian but he can't tell whether the driver of a suspicious car is an... -
Well-Being and Death by Ben Bradley 9780199557967
£85.30Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death and the good life: what makes a life go well? Is death bad for the one who dies? How is this possible if we go out of existence when we die? Is it worse to die as an infant or as a young... -
A Metaphysics for Freedom by Helen Steward 9780199552054
£89.34A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism. For determinism is threatened just as surely by the existence of powers which can be unproblematically... -
Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason by R. Jay Wallace 9780199287482
£56.55Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important _ papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay _ Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working_ in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and _... -
Human Welfare and Moral Worth: Kantian Perspectives by Thomas English Hill, Jr. 9780199252626
£68.80Thomas Hill presents a set of essays exploring the implications of basic Kantian ideas for practical issues. The first part of the book provides background in central themes in Kant's ethics; the second part discusses questions regarding human welfare;... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume III by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199542079
RRP: £39.99£39.81Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 1 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199291892
£44.76The contents of the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics nicely mirror the variety of issues that make this area of philosophy so interesting. The volume opens with Peter Railton's exploration of some central features of normative guidance,... -
The Retreat of Reason: A dilemma in the philosophy of life by Ingmar Persson 9780199276905
£68.24One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar... -
Moral Fictionalism by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780199275977
£45.75Moral realists maintain that morality has a distinctive subject matter. Specifically, realists maintain that moral discourse is representational, that moral sentences express moral propositions - propositions that attribute moral properties to things... -
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy Volume 3 by Tania Lombrozo 9780198852520
£39.24The new field of experimental philosophy has emerged as the methods of psychological science have been brought to bear on traditional philosophical issues. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is the place to go to see outstanding new work in the... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 15 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198859512
£97.41Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes...