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Morality and Responsibility T. M. Scanlon 9781509566969
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05T. M. Scanlon is one of the world's leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays,... -
Morality and Responsibility T. M. Scanlon 9781509566976
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89T. M. Scanlon is one of the world's leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays,... -
Contractualism by Jussi Suikkanen
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element begins by describing T.M. Scanlon's contractualism according to which an action is right when it is authorised by the moral principles no one could reasonably reject. This view has... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.42Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people... -
Being Realistic about Reasons by T. M. Scanlon 9780198748106
Booksplease Price: £26.35T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198854883
Booksplease Price: £20.63Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people... -
Being Realistic about Reasons by T. M. Scanlon 9780199678488
Booksplease Price: £57.69T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such... -
The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.76These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £19.85"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right... -
The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy by T. M. Scanlon 9780521826617
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon... -
Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame by T. M. Scanlon 9780674057456
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13In a clear and elegant style, T. M. Scanlon reframes current philosophical debates as he explores the moral permissibility of an action. Permissibility may seem to depend on the agent's reasons for... -
Public and Private Morality by Stuart Hampshire 9780521293525
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.78How far can we apply the same moral principles to both public and private behaviour. In the interests of effective political action, are we right to accept acts of deceit, exploitation or force which... -
The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen by Christine Sypnowich 9780199281688
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £111.56The 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... -
Moral Aggregation by Iwao Hirose 9780199933686
Booksplease Price: £80.92Some ethical theories tolerate or require aggregation -- a trade-off between benefits to a group of individuals and losses to another group of individuals. Since aggregation is an essential feature... -
Reason, Justification, and Contractualism: Themes from Scanlon by Markus Stepanians 9783110738438
Booksplease Price: £77.78This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In... -
Contractarianism / Contractualism by Stephen Darwell 9780631231097
RRP: £110.95Booksplease Price: £99.16Contractarianism and contractualism are instances of a major approach to normative ethical theory that stresses reciprocity and mutual consent. 'Contractarianism' is the name given to the idea, first... -
Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals by Pamela Hieronymi 9780691233970
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper... -
Freedom, Resentment, and the Metaphysics of Morals by Pamela Hieronymi
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson's influential "Freedom and Resentment"P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper... -
How We Hope: A Moral Psychology by Adrienne Martin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.40What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? In How We Hope, Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our... -
How We Hope: A Moral Psychology by Adrienne Martin 9780691151526
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55What exactly is hope and how does it influence our decisions? In How We Hope, Adrienne Martin presents a novel account of hope, the motivational resources it presupposes, and its function in our... -
Philosophers of Our Times by Ted Honderich 9780198712503
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Eighteen 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... -
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life by Thomas Nagel 9780197681671
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £16.29This 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... -
Equal Freedom by Stephen L. Darwall 9780472082810
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14and libertarian are frequently seen as opposing political labels. These two views and their oppositions are the topic of this collection of important essays by an exceptionally distinguished group of... -
War, Morality, and Autonomy: An Investigation in Just War Theory by Daniel S. Zupan
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Just War Theory is the governing moral doctrine for all of the major democratic militaries and indeed beyond. This book is a close study of a critical component of Just War theory, the moral status... -
Contractarianism / Contractualism Stephen Darwell (University of Michigan) 9780631231103
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.94Contractualism/Contractarianism collects, for the first time, both major classical sources and central contemporary discussions of these important approaches to philosophical ethics. Edited and... -
The Original Position by Timothy Hinton
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £74.05At the centre of John Rawls's political philosophy is one of the most influential thought experiments of the twentieth century: which principles of justice would a group of individuals choose to... -
Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 1 by Russ Shafer-Landau 9780199291892
Booksplease Price: £48.58The contents of the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics nicely mirror the variety of issues that make this area of philosophy so interesting. The volume opens with Peter Railton's... -
Lanson Lectures in Bioethics (2016-2022): Assisted Suicide, Responsibility, and Pandemic Ethics by Hon-Lam Li 9783031420511
Booksplease Price: £112.12Bioethical 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... -
The Concept of Academic Freedom by Edmund L. Pincoffs 9780292766365
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Most professors and administrators are aware that academic freedom is in danger of being brushed aside by a public that has little understanding of what is at stake. They may be only marginally... -
Epistemic Blame: The Nature and Norms of Epistemic Relationships Cameron Boult 9780192890580
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £64.43Epistemic Blame is the first book-length philosophical examination of our practice of criticizing one another for epistemic failings. People clearly evaluate and critique one another for forming... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £51.83Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning... -
Conversations on Ethics by Alex Voorhoeve 9780199602940
Booksplease Price: £24.02Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter 9780192897930
Booksplease Price: £30.40Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning... -
Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement by Kaushik Basu 9780199239115
Booksplease Price: £113.41Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate,... -
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being by Richard Kraut 9780674032378
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £30.63What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human... -
Conversations on Ethics by Alex Voorhoeve 9780199215379
Booksplease Price: £59.58Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex...