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Contrastive Reasons by Justin Snedegar 9780198785934
RRP: $126.00$112.88Justin Snedegar develops and defends contrastivism about reasons. This is the view that normative reasons are fundamentally reasons for or against actions or attitudes only relative to sets of alternatives. Simply put, reasons are always reasons to do... -
Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory by Michael Moehler 9780198785927
$171.47Michael Moehler develops a novel multilevel social contract theory. In contrast to existing theories in the liberal tradition, it does not merely assume a restricted form of reasonable moral pluralism, but is tailored to the conditions of deeply morally... -
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 4 by David Shoemaker 9780198805601
$215.21Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: * What does it mean to be an agent? * What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics 12 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198805083
$78.18Oxford 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... -
Moral Reason by Julia Markovits 9780198798408
$69.78What is it to have a reason to do something? is one sort of question; what is it we have reason to do? is another. These questions are often explored separately. But our answers to them may not be independent: what reasons are may have implications for... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 6 by Mark Timmons 9780198790594
$71.88Oxford 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... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 6 by Mark Timmons 9780198790587
$220.50Oxford 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... -
The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities by John K. Roth 9780198785200
RRP: $53.53$52.75Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilization's keystone. The Failures of... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics 11 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198784654
$76.08Oxford 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 11 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198784647
$231.11Oxford 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... -
Humean Nature: How desire explains action, thought, and feeling by Neil Sinhababu 9780198783893
$162.14Neil Sinhababu defends the Humean Theory of Motivation, according to which desire drives all human action and practical reasoning. Desire motivates us to pursue its object, makes thoughts of its object pleasant or unpleasant, focuses attention on its... -
Fichte's Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood 9780198766889
$158.72Allen W. Wood presents the first book-length systematic exposition in English of Fichte's most important ethical work, the System of Ethics (1798). He places this work in the context of Fichte's life and career, of his philosophical system as conceived... -
The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft by Sandrine Berges 9780198766841
$170.63Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning. Intense research is underway to recover their works which have been lost or overlooked. At the forefront of this revival is Mary Wollstonecraft. While she has long... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 5 by Mark Timmons 9780198744672
$70.83Oxford 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... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 10 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198738695
$236.40Oxford 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... -
The Limits of Moral Authority by Dale Dorsey 9780198728900
$160.02Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative authority over us and our lives? Must we conform to moral requirements? Most who have addressed this question... -
The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities by John K. Roth 9780198725336
RRP: $87.13$86.69Defined by deliberation about the difference between right and wrong, encouragement not to be indifferent toward that difference, resistance against what is wrong, and action in support of what is right, ethics is civilization's keystone. The Failures of... -
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 2: 'Freedom and Resentment' at 50 by David Shoemaker 9780198722137
RRP: $78.73$78.54Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes in moral philosophy and philosophy of action. This special volume in the series presents ten new papers marking the... -
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 2: 'Freedom and Resentment' at 50 by David Shoemaker 9780198722120
$231.11Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes in moral philosophy and philosophy of action. This special volume in the series presents ten new papers marking the... -
Moral Psychology and Human Agency: Philosophical Essays on the Science of Ethics by Justin D'Arms 9780198717812
$169.32These ten original essays examine the moral and philosophical implications of developments in the science of ethics, the growing movement that seeks to use recent empirical findings to answer long-standing ethical questions. Efforts to make moral... -
Achievement by Gwen Bradford 9780198714026
$166.40From the magisterial to the mundane, achievements play a role in the best kind of human life, and many people think that they are of such importance that they are worth pursuing at the expense of serious sacrifices. Yet for all that, no philosophers have... -
The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant by Joachim Aufderheide 9780198714019
$198.22The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation... -
Explaining the Reasons We Share: Explanation and Expression in Ethics, Volume 1 by Mark Schroeder 9780198713807
RRP: $149.10$122.14Normative ethical theories generally purport to be explanatory--to tell us not just what is good, or what conduct is right, but why. Drawing on both historical and contemporary approaches, Mark Schroeder offers a distinctive picture of how such... -
From Valuing to Value: A Defense of Subjectivism by David Sobel 9780198712640
$213.07Subjective accounts of well-being and reasons for action have a remarkable pedigree. The idea that normativity flows from what an agent cares about-that something is valuable because it is valued-has appealed to a wide range of great thinkers. But at the... -
Evil: A Philosophical Investigation by Luke Russell 9780198712480
$162.14When asked to describe wartime atrocities, acts of terrorism, and serial killers, many of us reach for the word 'evil'. But what does it mean to say that an action or a person is evil? Some philosophers have claimed that there is no such thing as evil,... -
Morality and the Emotions by Carla Bagnoli 9780198709404
$62.16Emotions shape our mental and social lives. Their relation to morality is, however, problematic. Since ancient times, philosophers have disagreed about the place of emotions in morality. One the one hand, some hold that emotions are disorderly and... -
Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility by Manuel Vargas 9780198709367
$83.24Building Better Beings presents a new theory of moral responsibility. Beginning with a discussion of ordinary convictions about responsibility and free will and their implications for a philosophical theory, Manuel Vargas argues that no theory can do... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 9 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198709305
$72.93Oxford 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... -
Different Beasts: Humans and Animals in Spinoza and the Zhuangzi by Sonya N. Özbey 9780197686386
RRP: $149.10$136.58Different Beasts studies conceptions of human and animal identity as articulated in the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi and in the works of the seventeenth-century European philosopher Benedict de Spinoza. By examining how, in these very... -
The Ethics of Animal Shelters by Valery Giroux 9780197678633
$153.66Ethical dilemmas and decision-making are a persistent feature of the everyday operations of animal shelters and animal protection organizations. These organizations frequently face difficult decisions about how to treat the animals in their care,... -
What We Owe to Future People: A Contractualist Account of Intergenerational Ethics by Elizabeth Finneron-Burns 9780197653258
RRP: $123.90$111.83What do we owe future people? Intergenerational ethics is of great philosophical and practical importance, given human beings' ability to affect not only the quality of life of future people, but also how many of them there will be (if any at all). This... -
Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham by James E. Crimmins 9780198277415
$185.72Jeremy Bentham was an ardent secularist convinced that society could be sustained without the support of religious institutions or beliefs. This is writ large in the commonly neglected books on religion he wrote and published during the last twenty-five... -
Mind and Morality: An Examination of Hume's Moral Psychology by John Bricke 9780198250111
$97.15John Bricke presents a philosophical study of the theory of mind and morality that David Hume developed in his Treatise of Human Nature and other writings. The chief elements in this theory of mind are Hume's accounts of reasons for action and of the... -
Climate Ethics: Essential Readings by Stephen M. Gardiner 9780195399622
$249.80This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of... -
From Bondage to Freedom: Spinoza on Human Excellence by Michael Lebuffe 9780195383539
RRP: $199.50$174.80Spinoza rejects fundamental tenets of received morality, including the notions of Providence and free will. Yet he retrains rich theories of good and evil, virtue, perfection, and freedom. Building interconnected readings of Spinoza's accounts of... -
The Moral Skeptic by Anita M. Superson 9780195376623
RRP: $119.70$105.97Anita Superson challenges the traditional picture of the skeptic who asks, "Why be moral?" While holding that the skeptic's position is important, she builds an argument against it by understanding it more deeply, and then shows what it would... -
Observing Bioethics by Renee C. Fox 9780195365559
RRP: $119.70$105.65Based on original primary and extensive secondary source materials, the book views bioethics as a complex phenomenon that is not only related to advances in modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the fundamental values and beliefs and... -
Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile Life by Neera Kapur Badhwar 9780195323276
RRP: $184.80$151.56This book offers a new argument for the ancient claim that well-being as the highest prudential good - eudaimonia - consists of happiness in a virtuous life. The argument takes into account recent work on happiness, well-being, and virtue, and defends a... -
Natural Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism by David B. Wong 9780195305395
RRP: $157.50$110.27In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a relativist stance against alternative theories such that there... -
The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing by Luke William Hunt 9780190904999
RRP: $178.50$124.45There is a growing sense that many liberal states are in the midst of a shift in legal and political norms - a shift that is happening slowly and for a variety of security-related reasons. The internet and tech booms that are paving the way for new forms...