Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This book forwards a line of argument that indicates how feminist analyses can ameliorate the standard consequential (and occasionally deontologica...

Religious world-views reserve a central and prominent place for human moral action, yet they must also contend with the reality of human moral fail...

The Liberatory Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. is a philosophical anthology which explores Dr. King’s legacy as a philosopher and his contemp...

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the contemporary discussion on free will and on moral prob...

The book attempts to provide a wide overview of key ethical matters in the philosophy of sport: What is fair play? Is strategic fouling legitimate?...

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics of immigration with contributions from scholars who...

The Ethics and Politics of Immigration provides an overview of the central topics in the ethics of immigration with contributions from scholars who...

Previous attempts to set up an Ethics based on the writings of Charles S. Peirce have generally begun and ended with the 1898 lecture, Philosophy a...

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women's Oppression-Perpetuating Choices offer a unique lens aimed at the underbelly of ...

Bioethics tells a heroic story about its origins and purpose. The impetus for its contemporary development can be traced to concern about widesprea...

Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views d...

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment”P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philoso...

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A central conclusion developed and defended throughout the book is that epistemic autonomy is necessary for knowledge (both knowledge-that and know...

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God...

Aristotle's moral philosophy is a pillar of Western ethical thought. It bequeathed to the world an emphasis on virtues and vices, happiness as well...

Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking...

Attempting to steer moral philosophy away from abstract theorizing, Moral Disquiet and Human Life argues that moral philosophy should be a practica...

Amusement is an emotion with power. It has the power to make us laugh, but it can also have a power over us (for good or for ill) to control our at...

The emotional exchange between so-called "humans" and more-than-human creatures is an overlooked phenomenon in societies characterized by the ubiqu...

What does it mean to be sad? What difference does it make whether, how, and why we experience our own, and other people’s, sadness? Is sadness alwa...

Wars have a destructive impact on society. The violence in the first case is domicide, in the second urbicide, in the third genocide, and in the fo...

What is the true purpose of the design profession? What ends should professional designers pursue?Firmly rooted in the design practice, this lively...

Based upon an attentive reading of Nietzsche’s writings and situated within a framework derived largely from such post-Nietzschean thinkers as Dele...

Many of us are so busy that we might be tempted to think we don’t have time to be patient. However, that idea involves a serious underestimation of...

Values, Virtues, and Vices, Italian Style illustrates the story of the evolution of Italian values, virtues, and vices is a narrative of longing, e...