Ethics and moral philosophy

The first book-length study of Sartre as philosopher of the imaginary and the development of his philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political thought.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

Political protests, debates on college campuses, and social media tirades make it seem like everyone is speaking their minds today.

This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and well-being by examining 'animal-assisted' education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.

To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values.

Luke Thurston explores psychoanalytic readings of Joyce, in particular those of Jacques Lacan.

This volume collects the best and most influential essays that Stephen Stich has published in the last 40 years on topics in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language.

A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious ''synthetic judgments a priori''.

This book makes an important contribution to the history of ideas in France in the century preceding the main manifestations of the Enlightenment.

Philosophers have long debated whether morality is objective.

Moral gilt gemeinhin als ein System prosozialer Einstellungen, Werte und Normen.

The original essays in this book address the influential writings of Peter A.

MORAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT The Human Genome Project (HGP) is now almost completed.

Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion is not a book to leave one indifferent.

Why "e;aporophobia"e;-rejection of the poor-is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people.

This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education - the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice.

Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focusing on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory.

This book explores Edith Stein's phenomenology of the state.

Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world.

David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time.

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy.

This book addresses two questions that are highly relevant for epistemology and for society: What is ignorance and how should we rationally deal with it?

Draws on insights from several disciplines to answer questions of widespread interest about how to understand and treat psychopaths.

This book explores illegal forms of corruption and, more widely, moral and legal forms of corruption.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the philosophy of John Stuart Mill has never been more relevant.

Decisions about war have always been made by humans, but now intelligent machines are on the cusp of changing things with dramatic consequences for international affairs.

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropyIs philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today's democracy?

Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs.

Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to with everyday life?

Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is an important work in terms of its historical influence and its contemporary relevance.

International intervention is not just about 'saving' human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity's place in the universe.

Case studies explore how to improve military adaptation and preparedness in peacetime by investigating foreign wars Preparing for the next war at an unknown date against an undetermined opponent is a difficult undertaking with extremely high stakes.

This book introduces readers to the "e;Trial of the Century,"e; revealing how the trial originated, what caused and happened during and after the trial, what happened to the trial's participants, and why the trial still matters nearly 100 years later.

Part intellectual autobiography and part exposition of complex yet contemporary economic ideas, this lively conversation with renowned scholar and public intellectual Kenneth J.

For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "e;Why write?

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of major topics in the philosophy of punishment from many of the field's leading scholars.

In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world's needy?

This book brings together the interdisciplinary reflections of Christian scholars and poets, to explore how ecological virtues can foster the flourishing of our home planet in the face of unprecedented environmental change and devastation.

The fourth edition of Ethics in Practice offers an impressive collection of 70 new, revised, and classic essays covering 13 key ethical issues.

Dieser Studie liegt die Annahme zugrunde, dass die Ausformulierung einer normativen Ethik nicht ohne eine ethische Güterlehre möglich ist.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of warfare ethics in early China as well as its subsequent development.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for?

This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction to Kant currently available.

First published in 1934, this book evaluates the characteristic doctrines of the idealism which dominated philosophy during the last century.