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On Mercy by Malcolm Bull 9780691217451
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $29.87Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm... -
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful Dean Rickles 9780691240619
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.58Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death... -
The Notion of Equality by Mane Hajdin
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.80This title was first published in 2001. In the articles collected in this anthology, contemporary analytic philosophers examine the ways in which the notion of equality functions in moral and... -
Consequentialism and its Critics by Samuel Scheffler 9780198750734
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $119.22This volume presents papers discussing arguments on both sides of the consequentialist debate. The distinguished contributors include John Rawls, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Derek Parfit, among... -
The Ideal of Equality by Matthew Clayton 9780333971192
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $109.43One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to... -
Moral Realism and the Existence of God: Improving Parfit's Metaethics by M. Jakobsen 9789042942141
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $154.48Can there be an objective morality without God? Derek Parfit argues that it can and offers a theory of morality that is neither theistic nor naturalistic. This book provides a critical assessment of... -
Sidgwick and Contemporary Utilitarianism by Mariko Nakano-Okuno 9780230321786
Booksplease Price: $90.25A rare academic study on what John Rawls, Peter Singer and Derek Parfit acknowledge as the finest book in ethics - The Methods of Ethics. With a rather shocking conclusion that 'none of us can match... -
Faulkner's Ethics: An Intense Struggle by Michael Wainwright 9783030688714
Booksplease Price: $218.63This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner's fiction, this study draws on The Methods... -
Parfit's Ethics by Richard Yetter Chappell
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $32.21Derek Parfit (1942-2017) was one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. This Element offers a critical introduction to his wide-ranging... -
Faulkner's Ethics: An Intense Struggle by Michael Wainwright 9783030688745
Booksplease Price: $218.63This book offers the first comprehensive investigation of ethics in the canon of William Faulkner. As the fundamental framework for its analysis of Faulkner's fiction, this study draws on The Methods... -
The Underdetermination of Moral Theories by Marius Baumann 9781009492447
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $159.35In normative ethics, a small number of moral theories, such as Kantianism or consequentialism, take centre stage. Conventional wisdom has it that these individual theories posit very different ways... -
Personal Identity, the Self, and Ethics by F. Santos 9781349356706
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.46Going beyond the controversy surrounding personhood in non-philosophical contexts, this book defends the need for a credible philosophical conception of the person. Engaging with John Locke, Derek... -
Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection by H.L Dyke 9789048162970
Booksplease Price: $178.60Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives. Actions and lives are temporal things. Thus, one would think that answers to ethical questions should take... -
Reading Parfit Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading) 9780631197263
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $72.38Reading Parfit brings together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field to discuss and critique Derek Parfit's outstanding work, Reasons and Persons.About the AuthorJonathan Dancy is... -
Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection by Heather Dyke 9781402013126
Booksplease Price: $176.59Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives. Actions and lives are temporal things. Thus, one would think that answers to ethical questions should take... -
Contingent Future Persons: On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future by N. Fotion 9789401063456
Booksplease Price: $178.44How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed... -
Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology A. P. Martinich (University of Texas, USA) 9781444335705
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $56.92Featuring updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative collection of the most influential readings in... -
Incomparable Values: Analysis, Axiomatics and Applications by John Nolt 9780367565510
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often... -
The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen by Christine Sypnowich 9780199281688
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $217.54The Egalitarian Conscience pays tribute to the highly influential work of Professor G. A. Cohen. Professor Cohen is a philosopher of international stature and tremendous achievement, who has been... -
Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy: An Analytical Anthropology by Stefaan E. Cuypers
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $208.71This title was first published in 2001: We are all persons or selves. But what exactly does it mean that we possess an identity and autonomy as persons or selves? This book explores the related... -
The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All? by John Leslie
RRP: $50.60Booksplease Price: $48.63This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting... -
Ethical Theory: An Anthology by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780470671603
RRP: $122.75Booksplease Price: $110.41The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral... -
High and Low Corruption: Children, Capabilities, and Crime by Harry Adams 9781666932546
Booksplease Price: $188.47High and Low Corruption: Children, Capabilities, and Crime analyzes “high corruption” in terms of political corruption and high-end white-collar crime and “low corruption” in terms of juvenile... -
Contingent Future Persons: On the Ethics of Deciding Who Will Live, or Not, in the Future by N. Fotion 9780792347071
Booksplease Price: $178.66How ought we evaluate the individual and collective actions on which the existence, numbers and identities of future people depend? In the briefest of terms, this question poses what is addressed... -
Kantian Dignity and Trolley Problems in the Literature of Richard Wright by Michael Wainwright 9783031402159
RRP: $214.48Booksplease Price: $188.58This book examines the literature of African-American author Richard Wright and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, arguing that Wright was not only the foremost proponent of minoritarian protest... -
Key Philosophers in Conversation Andrew Pyle (University of Bristol, UK) 9780415180375
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Key Philosophers in Conversation is a fascinating collection of interviews presenting the ideas of some of the worlds leading contemporary philosophers. Each interview features a discussion with a... -
Revival: Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy (2001): An Analytical Anthropology by Stefaan E. Cuypers
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $64.80This title was first published in 2001: We are all persons or selves. But what exactly does it mean that we possess an identity and autonomy as persons or selves? This book explores the related... -
Identity, Consciousness, and Value by Peter Unger 9780195079173
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $130.57The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but... -
Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology by Derek Matravers
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $82.10This textbook reflects the buoyant state of contemporary political philosophy, and the development of the subject in the past two decades. It includes seminal papers on fundamental philosophical... -
Kant and Parfit: The Groundwork of Morals by Husain Sarkar
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.84Derek Parfit's On What Matters is widely recognized as elegant, profound, and destined to change the landscape of moral philosophy. In Volume One, Parfit argues that the distinct-indeed, powerfully... -
Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness Bart Schultz 9781509552276
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.21Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot... -
Utilitarianism as a Way of Life: Re-envisioning Planetary Happiness Bart Schultz 9781509552269
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot... -
Immortality by Paul Edwards
Booksplease Price: $37.34Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Renowned scholar Paul Edwards has compiled Immortality, a superb group of philosophical selections featuring the work of both classical and... -
The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason by Ruth Chang 9780367695408
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.08Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics. The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason is an outstanding reference... -
Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical by Anthony Rudd 9780198752189
Booksplease Price: $98.67Anthony Rudd introduces, explains, and discusses of some of Kierkegaard's central ideas, showing their relevance to current debates in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion. Rudd uses... -
Philosophers of Our Times by Ted Honderich 9780198712503
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.26Eighteen of the world's most eminent philosophers of recent years tackle central questions of philosophy in this collection of the prestigious annual lectures given at the Royal Institute of... -
Rationality Through Reasoning John Broome (University of Oxford, UK) 9781118656051
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $49.18Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning... -
Morality, Mortality: Volume II: Rights, Duties, and Status by F. M. Kamm 9780195144024
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $66.85In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non- consequentialist ethical... -
Rationality Through Reasoning by John Broome 9781405117104
RRP: $146.15Booksplease Price: $128.72Rationality Through Reasoning answers the question of how people are motivated to do what they believe they ought to do, built on a comprehensive account of normativity, rationality and reasoning... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199229932
RRP: $150.15Booksplease Price: $116.77The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear...