Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is the quintessential philosophical outsider. Affiliated to no institution, and associated with no traditional school, ...

Perhaps you've looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that, very probably...

This book explores three connected insights into humor. First, that humor provides a privileged access to the deepest kind of truth, the sense as s...

This book presents a comprehensive vision of human life, ecology, and theology inspired by Spinoza. According to this vision, human beings and all ...

Sweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the ...

How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether...

This open access book presents a collection of case studies to analyse the FIFA World Cup 2022 held in Qatar, which revealed several complex aspect...

Reacting against both the British Idealists and the logical positivists, Isaiah Berlin forged a new philosophy best described as post-Idealist. Thi...

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimensio...

This book reports on theoretical and practical analyses of the ethical challenges connected to driving automation. It also aims at discussing issue...

The book presents a re-reading of H. G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau as a key to addressing the controversies of our own humanity. Ron ...

Ethics at the Center culls the best of Rabbi Elliot N. Dorffs pioneering thinking in Jewish ethics over nearly five decades. Dorff shows that our r...

In this remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy, Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ra...

A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosop...

Neopragmatism is a very general language-first approach to questions about the existence or nature of various traditionally philosophically troubli...

We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims tha...

Aristotle is famous for thinking that all our knowledge comes from perception. But it's not immediately clear what this view is meant to entail. It...

The practice of philanthropy, which releases private property for public purposes, represents in many ways the best angels of our nature. But this ...

John Rawls is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century, and his highly original and influential works...

These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the...

The various social roles we occupy, such as teacher, parent, or friend, shape our ethical lives and colour our perceptions of each other and oursel...

The ideology that underlies the concept of race has a long history. For centuries that ideology has spun supernaturalist and scientistic stories ab...

Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from t...

In this ground-breaking book, we navigate the uncharted terrain of social virtual reality (VR), a technology that, while offering unprecedented imm...

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, were established by the American scholar, indust...

If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dying are inextricably connect...

Limited force is different than war: different in scope, strategic purpose, and ethical permissions and restraints. No-fly zones, limited strikes, ...