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Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler
Booksplease Price: $64.07Suppose you knew that, though you yourself would live your life to its natural end, the earth and all its inhabitants would be destroyed thirty days after your death. To what extent would you remain... -
Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler 9780199982509
Booksplease Price: $99.98We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there... -
Human Morality by Samuel Scheffler 9780195085648
Booksplease Price: $86.42This book by Samuel Scheffler, one of the most prominent moral philosophers working today, investigates morality's content, scope, authority, and deliberative role, and in so doing offers an... -
Consequentialism and its Critics by Samuel Scheffler 9780198750734
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $80.79This 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... -
Why Worry About Future Generations? by Samuel Scheffler 9780198854869
Booksplease Price: $47.21The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this... -
Why Worry About Future Generations? by Samuel Scheffler 9780198798989
Booksplease Price: $68.31The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers have treated this... -
One Life to Lead: The Mysteries of Time and the Goods of Attachment Samuel Scheffler 9780197754634
Booksplease Price: $45.68It is a truism that each of us has one life to lead -- yet we rarely ask what it means to lead a life. The answer may seem obvious, but leading one's life is actually a complex, multifaceted... -
Boundaries and Allegiances: Problems of Justice and Responsibility in Liberal Thought by Samuel Scheffler 9780199257676
Booksplease Price: $159.16This book, a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing, is written from a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal... -
Equality and Tradition: Questions of Value in Moral and Political Theory by Samuel Scheffler 9780199899579
Booksplease Price: $95.19This collection of essays by noted philosopher Samuel Scheffler combines discussion of abstract questions in moral and political theory with attention to the normative dimension of current social and... -
The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions by Samuel Scheffler 9780198235101
Booksplease Price: $146.03In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological. Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents must... -
The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conceptions by Samuel Scheffler 9780198235118
Booksplease Price: $94.56In contemporary philosophy, substantive moral theories are typically classified as either consequentialist or deontological. Standard consequentialist theories insist, roughly, that agents must... -
Nationalism and Multiculturalism in a World of Immigration by Nils Holtug 9780230224346
Booksplease Price: $97.19This anthology contributes to the still emerging theoretical debates in political theory and philosophy about multiculturalism, nationalism and immigration. It focuses on multiculturalism and... -
Theories of Justice by Alejandra Mancilla
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $110.02Forty years ago, in his landmark work A Theory of Justice, the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal... -
Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance by James Griffin 9780198248439
Booksplease Price: $114.79The author offers answers to three central questions about well-being: the best way to understand it; whether it can be measured; and where it should fit in moral and political thought. This is a... -
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life by Thomas Nagel 9780197681671
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $35.76This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind... -
Self-Governance and Cooperation by Robert H. Myers 9780199256594
Booksplease Price: $47.21Robert Myers presents an original moral theory which charts a course between the extremes of consequentialism and contractualism. He puts forward a radically new case for the existence of both... -
Consequentialism Stephen Darwell (University of Michigan) 9780631231080
RRP: $56.60Booksplease Price: $52.96Consequentialism collects, for the first time, both the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this important position. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these... -
Consequentialism by Stephen Darwell 9780631231073
RRP: $233.00Booksplease Price: $205.49Consequentialism collects, for the first time, both the main classical sources and the central contemporary expressions of this important position. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these... -
Morality and Self-Interest by Paul Bloomfield 9780195305852
Booksplease Price: $86.42The relationship between morality and self-interest is a perennial one in philosophy, at the center of moral theory. It goes back to Plato's Republic, which debated whether living morally was in a... -
Rescuing Justice and Equality by G. A. Cohen 9780674030763
RRP: $117.50Booksplease Price: $96.77In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people's... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801495410
RRP: $69.30Booksplease Price: $44.50For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Philosophy for an Ending World by Tim Mulgan 9780192856173
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.16Tim Mulgan introduces a new thought experiment: the world will end in two hundred years, and humanity faces imminent and unavoidable (but not immediate) extinction. This book presents imaginary... -
Self-Governance and Cooperation by Robert H. Myers 9780198238393
Booksplease Price: $161.66Robert Myers presents an original moral theory which charts a course between the extremes of consequentialism and contractualism. He puts forward a radically new case for the existence of both... -
The Demands of Consequentialism by Tim Mulgan 9780199286973
Booksplease Price: $131.69According 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... -
Desiring the Good: Ancient Proposals and Contemporary Theory by Katja Maria Vogt 9780190692476
Booksplease Price: $192.95Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate... -
Desiring the Good: Ancient Proposals and Contemporary Theory by Katja Maria Vogt
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $60.38Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate...