Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This is the sixth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s political philosophy has been a vibrant field in...

This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's accoun...

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What does it mean to be a morally good person? It can be tempting to think that it is simply a matter of performing certain actions and avoiding ot...

This book is based upon a lecture series inaugurating the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights that took place in Winnipeg, Canada between Septembe...

This is the first edited collection devoted entirely to the question of the role of animals in the thought of Immanuel Kant. Though the topic is no...

To have free will with respect to an act is to have the ability both to perform and to refrain from performing it. In this book, Ishtiyaque Haji ar...

Dale Dorsey considers one of the most fundamental questions in philosophical ethics: to what extent do the demands of morality have normative autho...

Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. W...

Can you be morally obligated to do something? To renowned philosopher Ishtiyaque Haji, the answer is guardedly no. Regardless of whether determinis...

Thomas Pink offers a new approach to the problem of free will. Do we have control of how we act, so that we are free to act in more than one way, a...

Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to a...

Does being virtuous make you happy? In this book, Roger Crisp examines the answers to this ancient question provided by the so-called 'British Mora...

Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first ...

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Rights are often invoked in contemporary moral and political debates, yet the nature of rights is contested. Rights and Demands provides the first ...

Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon. Yet until recently, his ethics has been sidelined within Anglo...

In Morality by Degrees, Alastair Norcross articulates and defends a radical new approach to ethical theory. Consequentialist theories of the right ...

Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequa...

We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a...

Over the last few decades, skepticism about political and moral experts has grown into a serious social problem, undermining the functioning of lib...