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Space Ethics by Brian Patrick Green 9781786600264
RRP: £94.00£82.26Throughout history, humans have explored new places, making both good and bad moral decisions along the way. As humanity proceeds to explore space, it is important that we learn from the successes and not repeat the mistakes of the past. This book... -
Blame: Its Nature and Norms by D. Justin Coates 9780199860821
£118.95One mark of interpersonal relationships is a tendency to blame. But what precise evaluations and responses constitute blame? Is it most centrally a judgment, or is it an emotion, or something else? Does blame express a demand, or embody a protest, or... -
Essays on the History of Ethics by Michael Slote 9780195391558
RRP: £83.00£73.28In Essays on the History of Ethics Michael Slote collects his essays that deal with aspects of both ancient and modern ethical thought and seek to point out conceptual/normative comparisons and contrasts among different views. Arranged in chronological... -
Edibility and In Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations by Rachel Robison-Greene 9781793614667
RRP: £77.00£67.62Consumers and policy makers have unprecedented choices to make in the years to come about how and what we eat. If we continue down our current path of food production, we risk ever-increasing levels of animal exploitation, environmental destruction,... -
Moral Sentimentalism by Michael Slote 9780195391442
RRP: £89.00£73.28There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in meta-ethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their... -
Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics by Margaret Urban Walker 9780195315394
RRP: £78.00£63.71This is a revised edition of Walker's well-known book in feminist ethics first published in 1997. Walker's book proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the... -
Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights by Steven Lecce 9780190227180
RRP: £110.00£97.63This book is based upon a lecture series inaugurating the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights that took place in Winnipeg, Canada between September 2013 and May 2014. Fragile Freedoms brings together some of the most influential contemporary thinkers on... -
Ethics at the Cinema by Ward Jones 9780195320398
RRP: £64.00£55.80The editors of Ethics at the Cinema invited a diverse group of moral philosophers and philosophers of film to engage with ethical issues raised within, or within the process of viewing, a single film of each contributor's choice. The result is a unique... -
Test-Driving the Future: Autonomous Vehicles and the Ethics of Technological Change by Diane Michelfelder 9781786613233
RRP: £89.00£77.95As the development of autonomous vehicles proceeds full-speed ahead, it is often said that this new, disruptive form of transportation will change everything. Such a claim has drawn both philosophical and public attention to what could be called ethical... -
Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning by Larry S. Temkin 9780199759446
RRP: £122.50£86.45In choosing between moral alternatives -- choosing between various forms of ethical action -- we typically make calculations of the following kind: A is better than B; B is better than C; therefore A is better than C. These inferences use the principle... -
In Praise of Desire by Nomy Arpaly 9780199348169
RRP: £84.00£58.56Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise of Desire takes the side of appetite. Acting for moral reasons, acting in a praiseworthy manner, and acting out of virtue amount to nothing more than acting out... -
The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robert L. Simon 9780190270209
RRP: £47.99£35.52The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports, especially competitive athletics, in a manner that is accessible not only to sports fans or participants but also to those critical of sports or simply interested in an introduction to the... -
The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account by Dennis L. Krebs 9780199778232
RRP: £69.00£60.75Why do people behave in moral ways in some circumstances, but not in others? In order to account fully for morality, Dennis Krebs departs from traditional approaches to morality that suggest that children acquire morals through socialization, cultural... -
Social Media Ethics and COVID-19: Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation, and Authenticity by Pamela A. Zeiser 9781666911862
RRP: £81.00£71.06Social Media Ethics and COVID-19: Well-Being, Truth, Misinformation and Authenticity explores ways that some of the best and worst moments of the pandemic resulted from the interconnection of social media and ethics. The ethical challenges social media... -
Normativity in African Regional Relations by Frank Aragbonfoh Abumere 9781786615893
RRP: £85.00£74.51In cases that involve domination of, and discrimination against, minorities, the most common solution is the promotion of minority rights. However, this book contends that in the context of migrant minorities in Africa, appealing to minority rights is... -
Essays on Ethics and Feminism by Sabina Lovibond 9780198801269
£28.71Essays on Ethics and Feminism is a selection of the shorter writings of Sabina Lovibond, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary philosophy since the 1980s. This work lays claim to a broad thematic unity based on its affiliation to the realist... -
Developing the Virtues: Integrating Perspectives by Julia Annas 9780190271466
RRP: £97.00£81.43Ethicists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the development of virtue in recent years, approaching the topic from the perspectives of virtue ethics and developmental psychology respectively. Such interest in virtue development has... -
Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9781624661181
RRP: £59.99£48.82An excellent new translation and commentary. It will serve newcomers as an informative, accessible introduction to the Nicomachean Ethics and to many issues in Aristotle's philosophy, but also has much to offer advanced scholars. The commentary is... -
Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity? by Eric J. Silverman 9780367522674
RRP: £135.00£117.28This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity. The virtue of chastity has traditionally been portrayed as an excellent... -
Applied Philosophy: Morals and Metaphysics in Contemporary Debate by Brenda Almond 9780367457204
£116.59In bringing the concepts and methods of philosophy to bear on specific, pressing, practical concerns, applied philosophy is the modern expression of a perennial concern: to understand, in part to control, and to come to terms with the conditions in which... -
Utilitarianism by Tom Patrick 9781912303397
RRP: £19.99£17.69John Stuart Mill's 1861 Utilitarianism remains one of the most widely known and influential works of moral philosophy ever written. It is also a model of critical thinking - one in which Mill's reasoning and interpretation skills are used to create a... -
Modern Moral Philosophy by Jonny Blamey 9781912302932
RRP: £19.99£17.69Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 essay "Modern Moral Philosophy" is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative and analytical critical thinking skills. Though only 16 pages long, Anscombe's paper set... -
Moral Principles by Dr. Maike Albertzart 9781472574206
RRP: £95.00£94.80The history of moral philosophy has been dominated by attempts to find and defend the correct moral principle or set of principles. However, over the last two decades the assumption that morality can and should be understood in terms of principles has... -
Personalised Medicine, Individual Choice and the Common Good by Britta van Beers 9781108473910
RRP: £90.00£81.43Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 years later, 'personalised medicine', based on individual genetic profiling and the achievements of genomic... -
The Skillfulness of Virtue: Improving our Moral and Epistemic Lives by Matt Stichter 9781108472371
RRP: £90.00£81.03The Skillfulness of Virtue provides a new framework for understanding virtue as a skill, based on psychological research on self-regulation and expertise. Matt Stichter lays the foundations of his argument by bringing together theories of self-regulation... -
Duty and the Beast: Should We Eat Meat in the Name of Animal Rights? by Andy Lamey 9781107160071
RRP: £90.00£81.03The moral status of animals is a subject of controversy both within and beyond academic philosophy, especially regarding the question of whether and when it is ethical to eat meat. A commitment to animal rights and related notions of animal protection is... -
From Principles to Practice: Normativity and Judgement in Ethics and Politics by Onora O'Neill 9781107113756
RRP: £69.00£61.67Knowledge 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... -
Integrity and the Virtues of Reason: Leading a Convincing Life by Greg Scherkoske 9781107000674
RRP: £57.00£51.13Many people have claimed that integrity requires sticking to one's convictions come what may. Greg Scherkoske challenges this claim, arguing that it creates problems in distinguishing integrity from fanaticism, close-mindedness or mere inertia. Rather,... -
Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity by Drucilla Cornell 9780823230136
RRP: £31.00£27.36In this risk-taking book, a major feminist philosopher engages the work of the actor and director who has progressed from being the stereotypical "man's man" to pushing the boundaries of the very genres-the Western, the police thriller, the war or boxing... -
Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics by Peter A. French 9780631221517
RRP: £43.95£38.42Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume XXIV, Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of issues of metaphysics and issues of ethics. In the Midwest Studies tradition, twenty of the more... -
The Moral Demands of Memory by Jeffrey Blustein 9780521883306
RRP: £50.00£45.38Despite an explosion of studies on memory in historical and cultural studies, there is relatively little in moral philosophy on this subject. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of... -
Leadership Ethics: An Introduction by Terry L. Price 9780521875837
RRP: £75.00£67.74Are leaders morally special? Is there something ethically distinctive about the relationship between leaders and followers? Should leaders do whatever it takes to achieve group goals? Leadership Ethics uses moral theory, as well as empirical research in... -
Death and Mortality in Contemporary Philosophy by Bernard N. Schumacher 9780521769327
RRP: £75.00£67.74This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology,... -
Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality by Laurence R. Tancredi 9780521127394
RRP: £25.99£21.99This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings show that the mind and brain are very close, if not the same, and that the brain 'makes' the mind. This is... -
How to Treat Persons by Samuel J. Kerstein 9780199692033
RRP: £75.00£68.21Samuel J. Kerstein develops a new, broadly Kantian account of the ethical issues that arise when a person treats another merely as a means, that is, 'just uses' the other and thereby acts wrongly. He takes his inspiration from Immanuel Kant's 'Formula of... -
Self-Determination: The Ethics of Action, Volume 1 by Thomas Pink 9780199272754
RRP: £81.00£66.64Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, and does it matter to morality whether we do? Pink argues that what matters to morality is not in fact the... -
Ethics and politics in Tagore, Coetzee and certain scenes of teaching by Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak 9780199486694
RRP: £7.99£7.34This essay is a version of the text presented as a paper in Kolkata in February 2003. This was the first day of the two-day S. G. Deuskar lecture delivered by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Fifteen... -
Letters to a Young Philosopher by Ramin Jahanbegloo 9780199480388
RRP: £19.99£18.21This work is in the form of letters written by an old philosopher, at the end of his career and life, to a young student. The letters cover a comprehensive introduction to philosophy, wisdom, and the art of thinking. Inspired from Letters to a Young Poet... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 15 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780198859529
RRP: £33.49£30.68Oxford 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 Experimental Philosophy Volume 3 by Tania Lombrozo 9780198852407
£105.00The 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...