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50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler Butler Bowdon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.42For 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: $59.70In 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... -
The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights: An Intellectual History by Robert Garner
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $71.13Animal rights is now a concept that has achieved wide name-recognition. Vegetarianism, and even veganism, is now commonplace, representing a massive transformation in public attitudes. Fifty years... -
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50 Philosophy Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning by Tom Butler-Bowdon 9781473655423 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $5.01For 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... -
Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction Simon P. James 9780745645476
Booksplease Price: $22.10Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What,... -
Lucy and Bonbon by Don LePan
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $17.81Probing the question: "Are we ready to accept a human-ape hybrid in our midst?"What if humans were able to reproduce with other great apes? What would the hybrid offspring look like? Act like? Think... -
Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights by Elisabeth De Fontenay
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49A central thinker on the question of the animal in continental thought, Elisabeth de Fontenay moves in this volume from Jacques Derrida's uneasily intimate writing on animals to a passionate frontal... -
Trixy: A Novel by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 9780810140431
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten American author and women's rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911). The book decries the then-common practice of... -
Freedoms and Solidarities: In Pursuit of Human Rights by Judith Blau 9780742548022
Booksplease Price: $57.74Much has been written about growing global disparities in wealth and resources, how global capitalism has adversely affected human populations and the environment, and the dangers that a unipolar... -
Reasons and the Good by Roger Crisp 9780199548699
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $41.14In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Claiming that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons for action we might have,... -
Bergson and Philosophy: An Introduction by John Mullarkey 9780268021610
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.82Various schools of philosophy over the last eighty years have tried to claim Henri Bergson as one of their own. In France he has been regarded primarily as an early phenomenologist. In the United... -
Beyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals by Evelyn B. Pluhar 9780822316343
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.26In Beyond Prejudice, Evelyn B. Pluhar defends the view that any sentient conative being-one capable of caring about what happens to him or herself-is morally significant, a view that supports the... -
Beyond Blood Oil: Philosophy, Policy, and the Future by Leif Wenar 9781538112090
Booksplease Price: $97.79Leif Wenar's 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global... -
Lanson Lectures in Bioethics (2016-2022): Assisted Suicide, Responsibility, and Pandemic Ethics by Hon-Lam Li 9783031420511
Booksplease Price: $144.63Bioethical issues are practically urgent, politically divisive, and call for resolutions. They often involve questions that are perplexing, deep, and profound. To deal with them adequately requires... -
Bioethics: An Anthology Udo Schuklenk 9781119635116
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $66.45The new edition of the classic collection of key readings in bioethics, fully updated to reflect the latest developments and main issues in the field For more than two decades, Bioethics: An... -
On Animals: Volume I: Systematic Theology by Dr. David L. Clough
Booksplease Price: $52.62This volume is a project in systematic theology: a rigorous engagement with the Christian tradition in relation to animals under the doctrinal headings of creation, reconciliation and redemption and... -
Doing and Allowing Harm by Fiona Woollard
Booksplease Price: $41.96Doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm. If a boulder is rushing towards Bob, you may refuse to save Bob's life by driving your car into the path of the boulder if doing so... -
The Right Thing to Do: Readings in Moral Philosophy by James Rachels 9781538127926
Booksplease Price: $91.82Now in its eighth edition, James Rachels' and Stuart Rachels' The Right Thing to Do: Readings in Moral Philosophy continues its legacy of providing students a diverse collection of thought-provoking... -
Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics by Tatjana Visak 9781349449255
Booksplease Price: $59.70Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant life? This book rigorously explores the moral basis of the ideal of animal-friendly animal husbandry and sheds new light on... -
Reading Parfit: On What Matters by Simon Kirchin
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $53.92Derek Parfit was one of the world's leading philosophers. His On What Matters was the most eagerly awaited book in philosophy for many years. Reading Parfit: On What Matters is an essential overview... -
Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children: From disagreement to dissensus by Dominic Wilkinson 9780702077814
Booksplease Price: $57.03What should happen when doctors and parents disagree about what would be best for a child? When should courts become involved? Should life support be stopped against parents' wishes? The case of... -
Beyond Blood Oil: Philosophy, Policy, and the Future by Leif Wenar 9781538112106
Booksplease Price: $43.20Leif Wenar's 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global... -
Dialogues on Ethical Vegetarianism Michael Huemer 9781032291024
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79Worldwide every year, 83 billion animals are slaughtered on factory farms, at the end of brief lives full of suffering. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry?In this book, two college... -
Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics by Tatjana Visak 9781137286260
Booksplease Price: $105.08Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant life? This book rigorously explores the moral basis of the ideal of animal-friendly animal husbandry and sheds new light on... -
Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm by F. M. Kamm 9780195371956
Booksplease Price: $53.47F.M. Kamm is one of the leading ethical theorists working in philosophy today. She has become well known for her brand of exacting analysis, largely in defense of a non-consequentialist perspective -... -
After the Spike: Why Global Depopulation is Coming Soon and What the Dwindling of Humanity Portends by Dean Spears 9781847928368
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.59An eye-opening exploration of humanity's unprecedented path to global depopulation and why it's in everyone's interests to prevent it.'Stunning ... essential reading' DANIEL H. PINK, author of... -
Think Again: How to Reason and Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A masterclass in persuasion from the inspiring philosopher who has taught a million people to argue through his popular open online courseOur personal and political worlds are rife with arguments and... -
The Global Justice Reader Thom Brooks (University of Newcastle, UK) 9781118929315
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $57.69A unique compendium of foundational and contemporary writings in global justice, newly revised and expanded The Global Justice Reader is the first resource of its kind to focus exclusively on this... -
Liberating the Mind: Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies by Linda Elder 9781538174142
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.63Throughout history, thinkers within every part of society have been crippled by an ingrained bias toward their own views and the views of their preferred social groups. As these dangerous egocentric... -
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement by Ingmar Persson 9780199653645
Booksplease Price: $75.43Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature. We have rewritten our... -
Do Animals Think? by Clive D. L. Wynne 9780691126364
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Does your dog know when you've had a bad day? Can your cat tell that the coffee pot you left on might start a fire? Could a chimpanzee be trained to program your computer? In this provocative book,... -
Beyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals by Evelyn B. Pluhar
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71In Beyond Prejudice, Evelyn B. Pluhar defends the view that any sentient conative being-one capable of caring about what happens to him or herself-is morally significant, a view that supports the... -
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality by Joel Michael Reynolds
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and... -
A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change by Stephen M. Gardiner 9780199985142
RRP: $49.65Booksplease Price: $31.53Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates... -
Who Count as Persons?: Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing by John F. Kavanaugh 9780878408375
RRP: $34.19Booksplease Price: $32.52Just what is a human being? Who counts? The answers to these questions are crucial when one is faced with the ethical issue of taking human life. In this affirmation of the intrinsic personal dignity... -
Doing and Allowing Harm by Fiona Woollard 9780199683642
Booksplease Price: $125.03Doing harm seems much harder to justify than merely allowing harm. If a boulder is rushing towards Bob, you may refuse to save Bob's life by driving your car into the path of the boulder if doing so... -
What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life by Julian Baggini 9780195315790
RRP: $17.40Booksplease Price: $12.51What is the meaning of life? It is a question that has intrigued the great philosophers--and has been hilariously lampooned by Monty Python. Indeed, the whole idea strikes many of us as vaguely... -
Roaming Wild: The Founding of Compassion in World Farming by Emma Silverthorn 9781849955430
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.47Roaming Wild details the unconventional and pioneering lives of Anna and Peter Roberts, a British couple who were instrumental in making the animal welfare movement a respectable, highly-impactful... -
The Demands of Consequentialism by Tim Mulgan 9780199286973
RRP: $73.53Booksplease Price: $62.55According to consequentialism, we should always put our resources where they will do the most good. A small contribution to a reputable aid agency can save a child from a crippling illness. We should... -
Animal Ethics by Robert Garner 9780745630786
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27This book is an attempt to lead the way through the moral maze that is our relationship with nonhuman animals. Written by an author with an established reputation in this field, the book takes the...