Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radicall...

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in todays rapidly changing medi...

Derek Parfits On What Matters is widely recognized as elegant, profound, and destined to change the landscape of moral philosophy. In Volume One, P...

What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home: when we are in a fore...

American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three t...

While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in ...

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems c...

Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace...

Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philoso...

Environmental policy agendas, activism and academic research into ecological questions are all predominantly derived from the philosophical perspec...

Derek Parfit (19422017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Reasons and Persons is ar...

Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu nga...

Disrupting Journalism Ethics sets out to disrupt and change how we think about journalism and its ethics. The book contends that long-established w...

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressi...

Published in 1999. Lifelong learning is the slogan with which the Labour Government has chosen to publicise and popularise its values and policies ...

The doctrinal and structural revolution currently underway in the Roman Catholic Church is alarming for several reasons, not least because of the a...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

How do various concepts of God impact the moral life? Is God ultimately required for goodness? In this edited collection, an international panel of...

In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the ...

For science to remain a legitimate and trustworthy source of knowledge, society will have to engage in the collective processes of knowledge co-pro...

The 21st century is the age of neo-liberalism a time when the free market is spreading to all areas of economic, political and social life. Yet ho...

Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and t...

Elizabeth Anscombes 1958 essay Modern Moral Philosophy is a cutting intervention in modern philosophy that shows the full power of good evaluative ...

This book sheds light on important philosophical assumptions made by professionals working in clinical and research medicine. In doing so, it aims ...

Ludic Ubuntu Ethics develops a positive peace vision, taking a bold look at African and Indigenous justice practices and proposes new relational ju...

Civil Dialogue on Abortion provides a cutting-edge discussion between two philosophy scholars on each side of the abortion debate. Bertha Alvarez M...

First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the prob...

Published in 2001, Ethics and Reality presents a new collection of Jenny Teichman's most important essays across a wide spectrum of ethical issues....

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global...

This title was first published in 2000: This third volume of proceedings of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics focuses on the ethical issue...

One of the most controversial contemporary debates on the concept of health is the clash between the views of naturalists and normativists. Natural...

This title was first published in 2000: A systematic analysis of the concept of fairness as a moral notion. The work critically examines and reject...

Modern robots have arrived at a very matured state both in their mechanical / control aspects and their mental aspects. An Introduction to Robophil...

When we compromise on justice, we accept or acquiesce to an arrangement that we judge to be unjust, or at least not fully just. Such arrangements a...

This book proposes a theory of toleration wherein liberal democracies peacefully co-exist with non-democratic societies. It conceptualises internat...

How should we design our economic systems? Should we tax the rich at a higher rate than the poor? Should we have a minimum wage? Should the state p...

It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical iss...

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never a...

This title was first published in 2003. This book develops a moral ontology for a theistic ethic that engages the work of contemporary moral and po...

First published in 1997, this volume delves into the most influential theories of economic justice, which ground themselves in utilitarian or relat...

This title was first published in 2003.Developments in genetic science are opening up new possibilities for human beings; both the creation and t...

This title was first published in 2000: Administration, Ethics and Democracy is concerned with the disciplines of philosophy, political science and...

Engaging Bioethics: An Introduction with Case Studies draws students into this rapidly changing field, helping them to actively untangle the many i...

This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do...

This title was first published in 2002.In this informative and captivating book the author presents a moral critique of the laws governing the crea...