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Consequentialism Reconsidered by E. Carlson 9780792335474
RRP: $175.48$175.25In Consequentialism Reconsidered, Carlson strives to find a plausible formulation of the structural part of consequentialism. Key notions are analyzed, such as outcomes, alternatives and performability. Carlson argues that consequentialism should be... -
Chaos Bewitched: In Search of the Ideal Language Game (A Compendium of Aphorisms) by Laurence Campbell Cooper 9780228870821
$32.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228870821Author Laurence Campbell CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 209g -
Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory by H.E. Mason 9780195096811
RRP: $156.00$143.68The essays in this work focus on the theoretical significance of moral dilemmas. The contributors, many of them philosophers who have shaped the current debate, shed light on standing controversies in moral philosophy.Book InformationISBN... -
Sartre Lives On by Ben Wood Johnson 9780997902846
RRP: $15.85$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997902846Author Ben Wood JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Eduka SolutionsPublisher Eduka SolutionsWeight(grams) 136g -
Weighing Lives by John Broome 9780199243761
RRP: $219.38$156.62We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people's lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. A person who is terminally ill may have to... -
Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds by Donald W. Shriver 9780195378832
RRP: $60.43$53.25Donald Shriver argues that recognition of morally negative events in American history is essential to the health of our society. The failure to acknowledge and repent of these events skews the relations of many Americans to one another and breeds ongoing... -
Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes by Ilham Dilman 9780333735442
RRP: $175.48$175.25The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way... -
The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance by John E. Hare 9780198269571
RRP: $117.00$88.76This book is about the gap between the moral demand on us and our natural capacities to meet it. John Hare starts with Kants statement of the moral demand and his acknowledgement of this gap. Hare then analyses Kants use of the resources of the Christian... -
Sartrean Ethics: A Defense of Jean-Paul Sartre As A Moral Philosopher by Ben Wood Johnson 9780997902808
RRP: $26.79$19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997902808Author Ben Wood JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Eduka SolutionsPublisher Eduka SolutionsWeight(grams) 318g -
Moral Judgments as Educated Intuitions by Hanno Sauer 9780262546706
$90.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546706Author Hanno SauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 152g -
Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility by Manuel Vargas 9780199697540
RRP: $183.30$116.34Building 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... -
Children in Medical Research: Access versus Protection by Lainie Friedman Ross 9780199230426
RRP: $101.40$84.47Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II... -
Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children by David Archard 9780199590704
RRP: $163.80$115.56Producing and rearing children are immensely important human activities. Procreation and Parenthood offers new and original essays by leading philosophers on some of the main ethical issues raised by these activities. An Introduction supplies an... -
Paradoxes: A Study in form and predication by James Cargile 9780521109635
RRP: $60.43$44.56The ancient semantic paradoxes were thought to undermine the rationalist metaphysics of Plato, and their modern relatives have been used by Russell and others to administer some severe logical and epistemological shocks. These are not just tricks or... -
Ethics for A-Level by Mark Dimmock 9781013288791
RRP: $72.05$63.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288791Author Mark DimmockFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Reason and Morals by Reverend Dr John Wilson 9780521094238
RRP: $60.43$46.41Originally written and published in 1961, Reason and Morals suggests that although analytical philosophers of the time declined to offer moral guidance, Mr Wilson is concerned that the interested layman should not turn away from them disappointed and... -
Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Cases in the Law of Nature by S. A. Lloyd 9780521861670
RRP: $204.75$151.11In this book, S. A. Lloyd provides a radical interpretation of Hobbes' laws of nature, revealing them to be not egoistic precepts of personal prudence but rather moral instructions for obtaining the common good. This account of Hobbes' moral philosophy... -
Surviving Health Care: A Manual for Patients and Their Families by Thomasine Kushner 9780521767965
RRP: $165.75$126.17This book serves as a tool to help patients and families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of healthcare. It covers the topics and addresses the challenges that experts in a variety of healthcare fields believe to be the most... -
Spiritual Timber by Arthur Dobrin 9780996371810
$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996371810Author Arthur DobrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint American Ethical UnionPublisher American Ethical UnionWeight(grams) 216g -
Moral Value and Human Diversity by Robert Audi 9780195312942
RRP: $138.45$106.96This short and accessible book is designed for those learning about the search for ethical rules that can apply despite cultural differences. Robert Audi looks at several such attempts: Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and the movement known as 'common-sense'... -
Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity by Julia V. Douthwaite 9780268100360
RRP: $76.05$74.43Rousseau and Dignity: Art Serving Humanity is a richly illustrated volume relating a series of events-a photography exhibit, lectures, commentary, and audience reactions by people ages seven to ninety-two-held in the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's... -
Can't We Make Moral Judgements? by Na Na 9780312087265
RRP: $87.73$87.69In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make moral judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes to the law and its... -
Wisdom by Jean Daniel Charron 9780313210648
$162.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313210648Author Jean Daniel CharronFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
The Humanist Way - An Introduction to Ethical Humanist Religion by Edward L Ericson 9780989732369
$22.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989732369Author Edward L EricsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint American Ethical UnionPublisher American Ethical UnionWeight(grams) 152g -
Responsibility and Distributive Justice by Carl Knight 9780199565801
RRP: $193.05$154.46Under what conditions are people responsible for their choices and the outcomes of those choices? How could such conditions be fostered by liberal societies? Should what people are due as a matter of justice depend on what they are responsible for? For... -
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 2 by Mark Timmons 9780199662968
RRP: $81.88$65.21Oxford 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... -
Practical Ethics: A Collection of Addresses and Essays by Henry Sidgwick 9780195112887
RRP: $248.63$205.49This book is a reissue of a long-unavailable work by the English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900). Published in 1898, it collects nine essays, in which Sidgwick discusses such issues as when public officials might be justified in lying... -
Tolerance and the Ethical Life by Andrew Fiala 9780826499882
$146.46In a fresh and exciting way, this new book shows how tolerance connects with the practice of philosophy. Andrew Fiala examines the virtue of tolerance as it appears in several historical contexts: Socratic philosophy, Stoic philosophy, Pragmatism, and... -
Terrorism: The New World Disorder by Nicholas Fotion 9780826492586
RRP: $44.83$44.56Terrorism poses an undeniable threat to societies throughout the world today. Martyr terrorism, the fastest growing form of terrorist activity, and arguably the most effective, has become a regular occurrence. But how has terrorist activity evolved in... -
The Theory of Human Things by Chia-Hsi Josh Wu 9780228807544
$75.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228807544Author Chia-Hsi Josh WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Chia-Hsi Josh WuPublisher Chia-Hsi Josh WuWeight(grams) 535g -
Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality by Lisa Tessman 9780190650919
RRP: $92.61$65.21Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman... -
Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life by David DeGrazia 9780195389630
RRP: $144.30$113.41The ethics of creating-or declining to create-human beings has been addressed in several contexts: debates over abortion and embryo research; literature on "self-creation"; and discussions of procreative rights and responsibilities, genetic... -
The Costs and Benefits of Animal Experiments by Andrew Knight 9780230243927
RRP: $87.73$87.69A comprehensive review of recent scientific evidence examining the contributions of animal experimentation to human healthcare. The book also explores toxicity prediction, animal use during life and health sciences education, impacts on student attitudes... -
Animals and Social Work: A Moral Introduction by T. Ryan 9780230272507
RRP: $87.73$87.69Social Work and Animals represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that have... -
Color Me Confucius: The Ethical and Moral Reset Needed for Society by William Bodri 9780998076485
RRP: $27.20$19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998076485Author William BodriFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Top Shape Publishing LLCPublisher Top Shape Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 152g -
Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy by Bryan Van Norden 9780521867351
RRP: $204.75$151.11In this book Bryan W. Van Norden examines early Confucianism as a form of virtue ethics and Mohism, an anti-Confucian movement, as a version of consequentialism. The philosophical methodology is analytic, in that the emphasis is on clear exegesis of the... -
Ethical Values in the Age of Science by Paul Roubiczek 9780521095921
RRP: $60.43$46.41In this 1969 text, Paul Roubiczek argues that in the age of science there is still a place for ethics and a need for the philosophical method. He attempts to prove this by examining the contributions of three disciplines - history, psychology and... -
Descriptive Ethics: What does Moral Philosophy Know about Morality? by Nora Hamalainen 9781137586162
$108.48This book is an investigation into the descriptive task of moral philosophy. Nora Hamalainen explores the challenge of providing rich and accurate pictures of the moral conditions, values, virtues, and norms under which people live and have lived, along... -
The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global by Virginia Held 9780195180992
RRP: $199.88$138.82Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative... -
Visions of Women: Being a Fascinating Anthology with Analysis of Philosophers' Views of Women from Ancient to Modern Times by Linda A. Bell 9780896030541
$176.03People of Socrates' time were frequently aghast at the questions he would ask. Their responses were of the sort elicited by very dumb or ex- tremely obvious questions: "Don't you know? Everyone else does. " Socrates was hardly alone in his...