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Why Read Mill Today? by John Skorupski
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.23John Stuart Mill is one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. But does he have anything to teach us today? His deep concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be... -
Reasonable Self-Esteem by Richard Keshen 9780773513723 [USED COPY]
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £15.44Keshen presents a set of guidelines for analysing self-esteem and examines various factors that influence our self-esteem, such as other people's evaluations, comparisons with others, social... -
Animal Rights Education by Kai Horsthemke 9783319985923
Booksplease Price: £102.50This book explores how the ethical treatment and status of other-than-human animals influence pedagogy, teaching, and learning in general, aiming to fill what has been a gap in the philosophy of... -
The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek 9780198776727
Booksplease Price: £42.89What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a... -
The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth Norman M. Ford (Melbourne College of Divinity) 9780631234913
RRP: £109.95Booksplease Price: £100.01This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in... -
The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life by Jean Kazez 9781405160773
RRP: £72.95Booksplease Price: £66.01The Weight of Things explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the good life'. Looks at the views of philosophers... -
Arguing About Bioethics by Stephen Holland
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £55.45Arguing About Bioethics is a fresh and exciting collection of essential readings in bioethics, offering a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the field. Influential contributions from... -
Global Justice: Critical Perspectives Sebastiano Maffettone 9781138662568
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.44The global justice debate has been raging for forty years. Not merely the terms and conditions, but, more deeply, the epistemic, existential and ethical grounds of the international relations of... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit 9780199681037
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.75On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this... -
Princeton Readings in Political Thought: Essential Texts since Plato - Revised and Expanded Edition by Mitchell Cohen 9780691159973
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and... -
Intention and Identity: Collected Essays Volume II by John Finnis 9780199580064
Booksplease Price: £83.12The essays in Intention and Identity explore themes in Finnis's work touched on only lightly, if at all, in Natural Law and Natural Rights, developing profound accounts of personal identity and... -
Ethics and Animals: An Introduction by Lori Gruen 9780521888998
Booksplease Price: £67.24In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and... -
The Global Justice Reader by Dr. Thom Brooks 9781405169653
RRP: £96.95Booksplease Price: £89.77The Global Justice Reader is a first-of-its kind collection that brings together key foundational and contemporary writings on this important topic in moral and political philosophy. Brings together... -
The Prenatal Person: Ethics from Conception to Birth by Norman M. Ford 9780631234920
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.12This text addresses the host of ethical questions that has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. Addresses the ethical questions which have arisen in... -
The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life Jean Kazez (Southern Methodist University) 9781405160780
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £22.64The Weight of Things explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the good life'. Looks at the views of philosophers... -
The Allocation of Health Care Resources: An Ethical Evaluation of the 'QALY' Approach John McKie 9780367605186
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94The competition for limited health care resources is intensifying. We urgently need an acceptable method for deciding how they should be allocated. But the goods that health care produces are of very... -
Intention and Identity: Collected Essays Volume II by John Finnis 9780199689958
Booksplease Price: £45.33The essays in Intention and Identity explore themes in Finnis's work touched on only lightly, if at all, in Natural Law and Natural Rights, developing profound accounts of personal identity and... -
Ethics and Animals: An Introduction by Lori Gruen 9780521717731
Booksplease Price: £24.63In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and... -
Being Good in a World of Need by Larry S. Temkin 9780198912132
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.37In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy? This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of... -
Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic by Gregory E. Pence 9781538135037
Booksplease Price: £27.60With an estimated 20 million people addicted to drugs or alcohol, America is in the grip of an unrivaled epidemic. Overcoming Addition reveals how seemingly contradictory treatment theories must come... -
The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives by Janet Radcliffe Richards 9780199575558
RRP: £21.49Booksplease Price: £17.62If you die through mistakes in moral reasoning, then you are as dead as if you die through mistakes made in medicine. Organ transplantation saves lives yet thousands die every year on waiting... -
Ethics and Animals: An Introduction by Lori Gruen
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically... -
Can Ethics Provide Answers?: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy by James Rachels 9780847683482
Booksplease Price: £43.33Esteemed moral philosopher James Rachels here collects fifteen essays, some classic and others extensively revised, on the nature and limits of moral reasoning. Rachels argues that, rather than... -
At Home in a Strange Land: Using the Old Testament in Christian Ethics by Andrew Sloane 9780801048401
Booksplease Price: £23.48The Old Testament is a problem for many Christians. Some find it puzzling, or even offensive; others seem to glibly misuse it for their own ends. There are few resources aimed at enabling ordinary... -
The Ethics of Nature Celia Deane-Drummond (University College Chester) 9780631229384
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £40.51This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature. A detailed exploration of humanity's treatment of the natural world from a Christian... -
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Punchy, funny and invigorating ... Pinker is the high priest of rationalism' Sunday Times 'If you've ever considered taking drugs to make yourself smarter, read... -
Ethics and Animals: An Introduction by Lori Gruen 9781108833684
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £82.90In this comprehensive updated introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically... -
Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University, USA) 9781405198288
RRP: £20.75Booksplease Price: £19.94Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy addresses the ethical,... -
Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology and Natural Selection: Suffering and Responsibility by Lisa Sideris 9780231126618
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.09In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and... -
The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems by Russ Shafer-Landau
Booksplease Price: £45.17Brief yet thorough and affordably priced, The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Fifth Edition, is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral... -
Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory George Sher (Rice University, USA) 9780415782319
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £72.59Ethics: Essential Readings in Moral Theory is an outstanding anthology of the most important topics, theories and debates in ethics, compiled by one of the leading experts in the field. It includes... -
Globalization and International Development: The Ethical Issues by H.E. Baber 9781554810123
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £56.94This new anthology offers a wide selection of readings addressing the contemporary moral issues that arise from the division between the Global North and South-"the problem of the color-line" that W... -
Cosmopolitanism: A Philosophy for Global Ethics Stan van Hooft 9781844651931
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries... -
Immemorial Silence by Karmen MacKendrick 9780791448779
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58Treats time, eternity, language, and silence in an original way.Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of... -
A Companion to Applied Ethics R. G. Frey (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) 9781405133456
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.06Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219458
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal... -
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler Butler Bowdon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.63For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219441
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal... -
Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic by Gregory E. Pence 9781538168097
Booksplease Price: £20.70With an estimated 20 million people addicted to drugs or alcohol, North America is in the grip of an unrivaled epidemic. Overcoming Addiction reveals how seemingly contradictory treatment theories... -
Inheritance: The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World Harvey Whitehouse 9781529159158
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'Insightful and breathtaking.' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'Bold and sweeping.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Profoundly thought-provoking.' Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut...