Ethics & Moral Philosophy

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...

From the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascina...

After centuries of neglect, the ethics of food are back with a vengeance. Justice for food workers and small farmers has joined the rising tide of ...

While there has been sustained interest in Gandhis methods and continued academic inquiry, Gandhi's Global Legacy: Moral Methods and Modern Challen...

'The book I didn't know I'd been waiting for - a fascinating trip through time and space, likening the uncanniness of A.I. not to science fiction b...

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethin...

A bold new interpretation of Augustines virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as ...

This book provides a theory of the juridification of business ethics. Ethical codes pop up everywhere in the business world and increasingly resemb...

Ludwig Giesz (19161985) verbindet einen ausgeprägten philosophischen Spürsinn für das Hinter- und Abgründige der menschlichen Existenz mit einer se...

In Very Practical Ethics David Benatar discusses some of the moral problems that ordinary people face in their everyday lives. These are not moral ...

In recent years, the question of human moral duties toward robots has gained momentum in scholarly research due to great advancements in the fields...

In The Fundamentals of Ethics, Sixth Edition, author Russ Shafer-Landau employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the esse...

Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires peo...

With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing in...

We are facing an environmental crisis that some say is ushering a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, one that threatens not only a great deal ...

Why aporophobiarejection of the pooris one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acc...

Robert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views ...

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time. A pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, his work is foundational ...

This book offers a critical discussion of Sally Haslanger's philosophical oeuvre. Published on the occasion of the annual Münster Lectures in Philo...

Leo Bersanis career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fieldsincluding French studies, modernism, realist fiction, p...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of ...

Disability Justice in Public Health Emergencies is the first book to highlight contributions from critical disability scholarship to the fields of ...

This book argues that we are directly responsible for our attitudes by considering how we blame each other for being irrational. It thereby connect...

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without que...

Made popular by John Rawls, ideal theory in political philosophy is concerned with putting preferences and interests to one side to achieve an impa...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the concept of collective responsibility is relevant to ongoing normative debates ...

This book focuses on the implications of the common themes and works on three urgent tasks for bioethicists. Are there common themes between transh...

Applied ethics is an essential part of practical knowledge in pluralistic and democratic societies. Its fundamental characteristic does not consist...