Ethics & Moral Philosophy

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural ...

Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and ...

How should we treat animals? The long-held belief that other animals exist solely for human use has undergone radical challenge in the past half ce...

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGo...

Whether its horror at plastic littering the worlds beaches, or despair at the melting of the polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to th...

Why do we give a damn about strangers? Altruism is unique to the human species. It is also one of the great evolutionary puzzles, and we may be o...

Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ens...

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

Fénelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-...

Is animal labour inherently oppressive, or can work be a source of meaning, solidarity, and social membership for animals? This challenging questio...

Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one p...

Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power ...

The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, ...

Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. ...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an...

This book examines the concept of civility and the conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education. Although many assume that civility i...

Structured directly around the specification of the OCR, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level cour...

Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Tro...