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Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals by Jacqueline Taylor 9780199603732
£112.97Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of moral philosophy; this volume presents a section-by-section study of the work in the form of new interpretative essays by leading Hume scholars. The result... -
Fichte's Ethics by Michelle Kosch 9780198849759
£29.22One of Fichte's most important ideas - that nature can place limits on our ability to govern ourselves, and that anyone who values autonomy is thereby committed to the value of basic research and of the development of autonomy-enhancing technologies -... -
From Valuing to Value: A Defense of Subjectivism by David Sobel 9780198843887
£36.73Subjective 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... -
Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm by David Boonin 9780198842101
RRP: £76.00£55.96It is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol 7 by Mark C. Timmons 9780198808947
£33.73Oxford 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, Vol 7 by Mark C. Timmons 9780198808930
£97.41Oxford 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 12 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198805076
£93.37Oxford 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 Normative Ethics Volume 8 by Mark C. Timmons 9780198828310
£91.35Oxford 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... -
Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges by Francoise Baylis 9780198776581
£36.23This volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. For many people, these methods are separate and distinct: they can choose either adoption or assisted reproduction. But for others,... -
Oxford Studies Normative Ethics, Volume 4 by Mark Timmons 9780198722151
RRP: £37.99£37.88Oxford 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... -
Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism by Erik J. Wielenberg 9780198714323
£77.21Erik J. Wielenberg draws on recent work in analytic philosophy and empirical moral psychology to defend non-theistic robust normative realism and develop an empirically-grounded account of human moral knowledge. Non-theistic robust normative realism has... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics 13 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198823841
£96.41Oxford 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... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 9 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198709299
£112.57Oxford 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... -
Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics by John Casey 9780198249580
£56.15Casey argues that the classical virtues of courage, temperance, practical wisdom, and justice centrally define the good for Man, and that they are insufficiently acknowledged in modern moral philosophy. The associated values of success, pride, and... -
Articulating the Moral Community: Toward a Constructive Ethical Pragmatism by Henry Richardson 9780190247744
RRP: £46.99£41.53Is morality fixed objectively, independently of all human judgment, or do we "invent" right and wrong? Articulating the Moral Community argues that neither of these simple answers is correct. Its central thesis is that, working within zones of objective... -
Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations by Philip Stratton-Lake 9780198250999
£68.40Ethical Intuitionism was the dominant moral theory in Britain for much of the 18th, 19th and the first third of the twentieth century. However, during the middle decades of the twentieth century ethical intuitionism came to be regarded as utterly... -
What Am I Feeling? by John Gottman 9781884734526
RRP: £17.95£12.80Adapted from Dr. John Gottman's Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, this book helps adults identify their parenting and care giving style. It explains the five important steps in "emotion coaching" children to ensure that children are guided to... -
Creatures Like Us? by Lynne Sharpe 9781845400170
£21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400170Author Lynne SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300g -
Moral Mind: A Study of What it is to be Human by Henry Haslam 9781845400163
£11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400163Author Henry HaslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm... -
A Consequentialist Defense of Libertarianism by Richard Fumerton 9781793632043
RRP: £85.00£74.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793632043Author Richard FumertonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
The Challenges of Modern Sport to Ethics: From Doping to Cyborgs by Jose Luis Perez Trivino 9781498511308
RRP: £40.00£35.22The book attempts to provide a wide overview of key ethical matters in the philosophy of sport: What is fair play? Is strategic fouling legitimate? What is the role of cheating and gamesmanship in sport? What can be said about doping and physical... -
Adam Ferguson and Ethical Integrity: The Man and His Prescriptions for the Moral Life by Jack A. Hill 9781498504577
RRP: £95.00£83.52This book is about learning how to live the good life. Part biography and part philosophical inquiry, it is a fresh, original interpretation of the intellectual world of the largely forgotten, eighteenth-century professor, Adam Ferguson. Although less... -
Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis by Stephen Kershnar 9781498504461
RRP: £88.00£77.09This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult-child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are... -
Foundation for a Natural Morality: A Deductive Approach for Defending and Developing a Moral Theory by Edmund Wall 9781498503006
RRP: £85.00£74.51Few philosophers attempt to establish that there is an evaluative and moral realm. They make these major assumptions without argument. This plays into the hands of moral nihilists and certain other moral skeptics. A major obstacle that prevents... -
Violence and Nonviolence: Conceptual Excursions into Phantom Opposites by Peyman Vahabzadeh 9781487523183
RRP: £33.00£29.99Through an original and close reading of the key literature regarding both revolutionary violence and nonviolence, this book collapses the widely-assumed concepts of violence and nonviolence as mutually exclusive. By revealing that violence and... -
Corrupting Youth: History and Principles of Philosophical Enquiry by Peter Worley 9781475859201
RRP: £25.00£21.79A practical guide to facilitating philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) based on philosophical and pedagogical principles derived from the ancient Greek philosophers but supported my modern-day research and pedagogical practices... -
Corrupting Youth: History and Principles of Philosophical Enquiry by Peter Worley 9781475859195
RRP: £56.00£48.89A practical guide to facilitating philosophical conversations with groups (especially in schools) based on philosophical and pedagogical principles derived from the ancient Greek philosophers but supported my modern-day research and pedagogical practices... -
The Taste for Ethics: An Ethic of Food Consumption by Christian Coff 9781402045530
£95.22This book marks a new departure in ethics, which has up to now been a question of 'the good life' in relation to other people, based on Greek concepts of friendship and the Judaeo-Christian 'caritas.' No early moral teaching discussed man's relation to... -
Character and Environment: A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics by Ronald Sandler 9780231141062
£100.18Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an... -
Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness by Steven Luper 9780812693225
RRP: £14.99£13.17Steven Luper analyzes the nature of happiness and compares two strategies of pursuit: the western approach known as 'optimizing', in which we try to bring about the satisfaction of our desires, and the eastern method known as 'adapting', in which we... -
Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment by Serene J. Khader 9780199777884
£102.48Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women's acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food, their positive attitudes toward clitoridectemy and... -
Rethinking Responsibility by K. E. Boxer 9780199695324
£72.16This book explores moral responsibility, and whether it is compatible with causal determinism. Its author, K. E. Boxer, started out with deeply incompatibilist intuitions but became dissatisfied with the arguments that she and other contemporary... -
Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 1 by David Shoemaker 9780199694853
£116.01Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: DT What does it mean to be an agent? DT What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of... -
Human Interests: or Ethics for Physicalists by Joseph Mendola 9780199682829
£107.92Human Interests develops an ethical theory in the consequentialist tradition, but incorporating contractarian and deontological elements. Joseph Mendola argues that this theory is required by physical reality and the correct metaethics. Innovative... -
Impassioned Belief by Michael Ridge 9780199682669
£69.52We all form judgments about what ways of life are worthwhile, what we are morally required to do and so on. These so-called "normative" judgments have seemed puzzling in part because they exhibit both belief-like and desire-like features. Traditional... -
Forgiveness and Love by Glen Pettigrove 9780199646555
£77.21What is forgiveness? When is it appropriate? How is it encouraged or inhibited? Answering these questions one way rather than another can alter our lives and our relationships in dramatic ways. If we think that forgiveness is or involves a passion that... -
Lying, Misleading, and What is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and in Ethics by Jennifer Mather Saul 9780199603688
£82.26Many people (both philosophers and not) find it very natural to think that deceiving someone in a way that avoids lying--by merely misleading--is morally preferable to simply lying. Others think that this preference is deeply misguided. But all sides... -
Persons, Interests, and Justice by Nils Holtug 9780199580170
£102.88In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is, to live good lives. But we also have another, more impartial perspective, where we aim to balance our concern for our own welfare against a concern for the welfare of others. This is a... -
Happiness for Humans by Daniel C. Russell 9780199583683
£90.74In Happiness for Humans, Daniel C. Russell takes a fresh look at happiness from a practical perspective: the perspective of someone trying to solve the wonderful problem of how to give himself a good life. From this perspective, 'happiness' is the name... -
Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity by Christopher Janaway 9780199583676
£90.34Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Normativity comprises ten original essays which critically engage with one of the western canon's most controversial ethical thinkers. Bringing together an internationally renowned line-up of Nietzsche specialists and...