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The Magic Ring: A Journey of the Unseen by Tom Morris 9780996712361
RRP: £35.99£33.10Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals": A Reader's Guide by Daniel Conway 9780826478160
£120.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Practical Ethics by Peter Singer 9780521881418
RRP: £84.99£74.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Myth of Morality by Richard Joyce 9780521808064
RRP: £90.99£77.09In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended... -
Distant Strangers: Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty by Judith Lichtenberg 9780521763318
RRP: £75.00£61.57What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of... -
Commitment, Value, and Moral Realism by Marcel S. Lieberman 9780521631112
RRP: £98.99£87.91Despite the importance of commitment in moral and political philosophy, there has hitherto been little extended analysis of it. Marcel Lieberman examines the conditions under which commitment is possible, and offers at the same time an indirect argument... -
Philosophy and Pluralism by David Archard 9780521567503
RRP: £24.99£22.37We inhabit a world of differences - cultural, religious, moral, philosophical. The question that preoccupies the contributors to this volume is whether the fact of difference - plurality - inevitably leads to the conclusion that there cannot be a single... -
The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory by John Deigh 9780521554183
RRP: £76.99£68.63The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. They focus on moral feelings and moral motivation, and seek to understand the operations and origins of these phenomena as rooted in the natural desires and emotions of... -
Laws of Nature by John W. Carroll 9780521433341
RRP: £80.99£72.17John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that... -
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis by Mark R. Wicclair 9780521514316
RRP: £46.00£41.47Historically associated with military service, conscientious objection has become a significant phenomenon in health care. Mark Wicclair offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions:... -
Science and Necessity by John Bigelow 9780521390279
RRP: £122.00£107.99This book espouses a theory of scientific realism in which due weight is given to mathematics and logic. The authors argue that mathematics can be understood realistically if it is seen to be the study of universals, of properties and relations, of... -
Natural Agency: An Essay on the Causal Theory of Action by John Bishop 9780521374309
RRP: £104.00£87.91From a moral point of view we think of ourselves as capable of responsible actions. From a scientific point of view we think of ourselves as animals whose behaviour, however highly evolved, conforms to natural scientific laws. Natural Agency argues that... -
Contemporary French Philosophy by A. Phillips Griffiths 9780521357357
RRP: £28.99£26.52This volume offers a lively and accessible guide to some of the major issues current in French philosophy today and to some of the figures who are or have been influential in shaping its development. The collection is unusual and interesting in bringing... -
Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization by Daniel E. Lee 9780521147996
RRP: £26.99£22.80Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of the economy and the ethical considerations inherent in the many changes it has prompted. The book's introduction maps out the philosophical... -
Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics by Michael Smith 9780521007733
RRP: £27.99£23.61Michael Smith has written a series of seminal essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents... -
Laws of Nature by John W. Carroll 9780521064132
RRP: £36.99£31.75John Carroll undertakes a careful philosophical examination of laws of nature, causation, and other related topics. He argues that laws of nature are not susceptible to the sort of philosophical treatment preferred by empiricists. Indeed he shows that... -
The Construction of Reality by Michael A. Arbib 9780521063197
RRP: £39.99£33.26In this book, Michael Arbib, a researcher in artificial intelligence and brain theory, joins forces with Mary Hesse, a philosopher of science, to present an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and... -
Liberation from Self: A Theory of Personal Autonomy by Bernard Berofsky 9780521041331
RRP: £37.99£31.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Minangkabau Social Formations: Indonesian Peasants and the World-Economy by Joel S. Kahn 9780521040297
RRP: £30.99£26.43In this anthropological investigation of the nature of an underdeveloped peasant economy, Joel S. Kahn attempts to develop the insights generated by Marxist theorists, by means of a concrete case study of a peasant village in the Indonesian province of... -
Moral Questions: by Rush Rhees by R. Rhees 9780333748510
RRP: £89.99£89.87Rush Rhees questions the viability of moral theories and the general claims they make in ethics. He shows how one can both be concerned with knowing what one ought to do while recognising that one's answer is a personal one. These insights, arrived at in... -
An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780198235002
RRP: £147.50£118.90About Hume David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics,... -
Robot Rights by David J. Gunkel 9780262551571
£31.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551571Author David J. GunkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g -
The Crescent and the Cross: Muslim and Christian Approaches to War and Peace by Oliver Ramsbotham 9780333638118
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book is the product of dialogue between a group of leading British Muslim and Christian scholars concerned about the alleged danger to the 'West' of Islamic 'fundamentalism'. It analyses the ethical and legal principles, rooted in both traditions,... -
Virtue, Norms, and Objectivity: Issues in Ancient and Modern Ethics by Christopher Gill 9780199264384
RRP: £130.00£113.32to followBook InformationISBN 9780199264384Author Christopher GillFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 659g -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume II by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199218073
RRP: £137.50£118.50Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only periodical publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work on the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship in the field. Its broad purview includes... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX by Aristotle 9780198751038
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Alexius Meinong's Elements of Ethics: with Translation of the Fragment Ethische Bausteine by Marie-Luise Schubert Kalsi 9780792338031
RRP: £119.99£109.55Elements of Ethics examines Meinong's value theory from an epistemological standpoint and gives a critical exposition of Meinong's first attempts at a deontic logic; special consideration is given to the Law of Omission. For that purpose his theory of... -
Ethics by Allen Phillips-Griffiths 9781009107716
RRP: £19.99£15.23Ethical questions are often associated with practical dilemmas: questions in morality, in other words. This volume, by contrast, asks questions about morality: what it is, and to what it owes its precarious authority over us. The focus on metaethics is... -
Missing, Aborted, Half-Alive: Progress and Development or Persons and Freedom by Mr Vernon M Molloy 9780994855749
RRP: £5.25£4.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994855749Author Mr Vernon M MolloyFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Vernon MolloyPublisher Vernon MolloyWeight(grams) 73g -
The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse by Peter J. Paris 9780800628543
£19.99Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris sharpens the Afrocentric quest. He focuses on African "spirituality" - the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading traditional African religious worldviews. From... -
Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide by Claudia Card 9780521899611
RRP: £75.00£64.70In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil... -
Knowledge and Inquiry: Essays on the Pragmatism of Isaac Levi by Erik J. Olsson 9780521845564
RRP: £75.00£67.65Isaac Levi has explored the principles of American pragmatism in greater depth and more consistency than others before him. The result is a sophisticated and powerful philosophical system whose key elements stand in stark opposition not only to... -
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music by Bruce Ellis Benson 9780521810937
RRP: £66.00£57.67This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of music. Whereas most books in this field focus on the creation and reproduction of music, Bruce Benson's concern is the phenomenology of music making as an activity. He offers the radical thesis... -
Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics by Michael Smith 9780521809870
RRP: £90.99£81.43Michael Smith has written a series of seminal essays about the nature of belief and desire, the status of normative judgment, and the relevance of the views we take on both these topics to the accounts we give of our nature as free and responsible agents... -
Should Race Matter?: Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions by David Boonin 9780521760867
RRP: £85.99£72.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist by Tara Smith 9780521705462
RRP: £29.99£25.45Ayn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand's view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This... -
Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing by Margaret Urban Walker 9780521810883
RRP: £96.99£82.01Moral 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... -
The Moral Foundations of Social Institutions: A Philosophical Study by Professor Seumas Miller 9780521767941
RRP: £59.00£52.21In this book, Seumas Miller examines the moral foundations of contemporary social institutions. Offering an original general theory of social institutions, he posits that all social institutions exist to realize various collective ends, indeed, to... -
Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives by William A. Galston 9780521763745
RRP: £75.00£58.65This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism,... -
Language and Thought: Interdisciplinary Themes by Peter Carruthers 9780521637589
RRP: £39.99£33.26What is the place of language in human cognition? Do we sometimes think in natural language? Or is language for purposes of interpersonal communication only? Although these questions have been much debated in the past, they have almost dropped from sight...