Ethics & Moral Philosophy

To Do, To Die, To Reason Why offers a new account of the ethics of war and the legal regulation of war. It is especially concerned with the conduct...

Romantic love is a defining phenomenon in human existence, and an object of heightened interest for literature, art, popular culture, and psycholog...

Most of us are far from perfect in virtue. But even those who come far closer to perfect virtue than most of us--people like Mother Theresa, Martin...

Respect plays a prominent role in contemporary moral philosophy, as well as our every-day moral thought. Ordinary discussion about morality is ofte...

Joseph Butler's The Analogy of Religion (1736) is an important work in terms of its historical influence and its contemporary relevance. In it, B...

The potential conflicts between morality and self-interest lie at the heart of ethics. These conflicts arise because both moral and prudential cons...

What is evil? Who does evil things? Who is evil? How do you know? Whether in response to witnessing mass suffering or feeling the sting of personal...

War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. It is an arena where individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humani...

T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. H...

An accessible yet rigorous introduction to the field, Environmental Ethics: Theory in Practice helps students develop the analytical skills to effe...

For the last twenty-thousand years, dogs and people have shared a unique bond in the animal kingdom. In How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflic...

The Ethics of Anger provides the resources needed to understand the prevalence of anger in relation to ethics, religion, social and political behav...

The Ethics of Anger provides the resources needed to understand the prevalence of anger in relation to ethics, religion, social and political behav...

This book presents a comprehensive theory of justice that has a threefold justification. For the first justification, the book presents a rigorousl...

This book develops and defends a novel social epistemological account of indoctrination. It answers important epistemological, ethical, and politic...

Why Its OK to Be Amoral argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. High-minded ...

Why Its OK to Be Amoral argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. High-minded ...

Friendship and the Moral Life is not simply a theoretical argument about how moral theology might be done if it took friendship more seriously. Rat...

This book provides a critical and innovative reassessment of contemporary debate on the human-animal relationship. Starting with a critique of the ...

This book provides an interdisciplinary series of essays on key social theorists of morality. It explores contributions to social moral theorising ...

Since it was first published in 1991, The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics has received praise from a wide range of commentators, both Catholic...

Disagreement is one of the deepest and most pervasive topics in philosophy; arguably its very bedrock, and is an ever-increasing feature of politic...

Altruismus scheint im Alltagsverständnis seinen uneingeschränkt positiven Ruf als ebenso wünschenswerte wie seltene Tugend verloren zu haben und du...

As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whet...

Cooperative relations steeped in honesty and good faith are a necessity for any viable society. This is especially relevant to the police instituti...

In Adulthood, Morality, and the Fully Human, John J. Shea describes an adult, moral, and fully human self in terms of integrity and mutuality. Thos...

Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing mil...

InRescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxisms relation to Kants ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibi...

An empowering and deeply informative book MobyNEW UPDATED EDITIONChallenge their beliefs; change the worldIf you are a vegan, youll know all too w...

This book approaches humanism in the new era in China by discussing the nature of value philosophy and by analyzing in depth the significance of va...

This book provides a complete introduction to Artificial Intelligence, covering foundational computational technologies, mathematical principles, p...

Utilitarianism a commitment to the greatest happiness for the greatest number has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics...

According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014, now representing over 1 per cent of the total ...

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was the outstanding philosopher-theologian of the Latin West between Augustine and the thirteenth century. As a pu...