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Consequentialism Julia Driver 9780415772587
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Consequentialism is the view that the rightness or wrongness of actions depend solely on their consequences. It is one of the most influential, and controversial, of all ethical theories. In this... -
Uneasy Virtue by Julia Driver 9780521781725
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the... -
Uneasy Virtue by Julia Driver 9780521034067
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue one must have practical wisdom - the... -
Ethics: The Fundamentals Julia Driver (Dartmouth College, USA) 9781405111553
RRP: £84.95Booksplease Price: £76.21Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine... -
Ethics: The Fundamentals Julia Driver (Dartmouth College, USA) 9781405111546
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.85Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine... -
Reading Parfit: On What Matters by Simon Kirchin
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Derek 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... -
Moral and Epistemic Virtues by Michael Brady 9781405108782
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74This volume brings together papers by some of the leading figures working on virtue-theoretic accounts in both ethics and epistemology. A collection of cutting edge articles by leading figures in the... -
Unprincipled Virtue: An Inquiry Into Moral Agency by Nomy Arpaly 9780195179767
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.71Nomy Arpaly rejects the model of rationality used by most ethicists and action theorists. Both observation and psychology indicate that people act rationally without deliberation, and act... -
Distributive Justice and Disability: Utilitarianism against Egalitarianism by Mark S. Stein 9780300100570
Booksplease Price: £57.36Theories of distributive justice are most severely tested in the area of disability. In this book, Mark Stein argues that utilitarianism performs better than egalitarian theories in this area:... -
The Bright and the Good: The Connection between Intellectual and Moral Virtues by Audrey L. Anton 9781786602374
Booksplease Price: £42.08The Bright and the Good examines the connection between intellectual and moral virtues both through the history of philosophy and as it can be illustrated in comprehensive examinations of specific... -
Morals from Motives by Michael Slote 9780195170207
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £33.00Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded... -
The Metaphysics of Beauty by Nick Zangwill
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £53.45In chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Nick Zangwill investigates the nature of beauty as we conceive it, and as it is in... -
Merit, Meaning, and Human Bondage: An Essay on Free Will by Nomy Arpaly
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.20Perhaps everything we think, feel, and do is determined, and humans--like stones or clouds--are slaves to the laws of nature. Would that be a terrible state? Philosophers who take the incompatibilist... -
Philosophers Explore The Matrix by Christopher Grau 9780195181074
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £32.44The Matrix trilogy is unique among recent popular films in that it is constructed around important philosophical questions--classic questions which have fascinated philosophers and other thinkers for... -
Reasons and the Good by Roger Crisp 9780199290338
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £66.22In 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,... -
Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality by Brad Hooker 9780199256570
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £41.85What are appropriate criteria for assessing a theory of morality? In Ideal Code, Real World, Brad Hooker begins by answering this question, and then argues for a rule-consequentialist theory... -
Duty to Self: Moral, Political, and Legal Self-Relation by Paul Schofield
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £68.00That we owe duties to others is a commonplace, the subject of countless philosophical treatises and monographs. Morality is interpersonal and other-directed, many claim. But what of what we owe... -
Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi 9780190900151
RRP: £39.49Booksplease Price: £35.04We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the...