Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Ressentimentthe hateful desire for revengeplays a pivotal role in Nietzsches On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad...

Due to the economic and social effects of globalization democracy is currently in crisis in many states around the world. This book suggests that s...

This book highlights the interconnectedness of integrity with philosophical history, leadership, managerial decision-making, and organizational eff...

In recent research, dual-process theories of cognition have been the primary model for explaining moral judgment and reasoning. These theories unde...

In the helping professions, codes of ethics and decision-making models have been the primary vehicles for determining what constitutes ethical prac...

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often no...

What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamen...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

Does God Matter? features eleven original essays written by prominent philosophers of religion that address this very important, yet surprisingly n...

This book explores the question of justification of law. It examines some perennial jurisprudential debates and suggests that law must find its jus...

Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is no serious dispute among scholars that the Eudemian Ethics is authentic. The Eudemia...

David Hume (17111776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert m...

Many ethicists either accept the reflective equilibrium method or think that anything goes in ethical theorizing as long as the results are plausib...

Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and t...

In Cosmopolitan Business Ethics: Towards a Global Ethos of Management, Jacob Dahl Rendtorff maps the concept of global business ethics, related to ...

This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range of ethical i...

Originally published in 1908, the text upon which this translation is based is that of the first 269 pages of Professor Wundt's Ethik, as published...

This title was first published in 2000: Ever since Michael Tooley published his article on Abortion and Infanticide in 1972, the abortion debate ha...

This title was first published in 2000: A systematic analysis of the concept of fairness as a moral notion. The work critically examines and reject...

This title was first published in 2001. In the articles collected in this anthology, contemporary analytic philosophers examine the ways in which t...

According to philosophical lore, epistemological orthodoxy is a purist epistemology in which epistemic concepts such as belief, evidence, and knowl...

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, ass...

Risks, including health and technological, attract a lot of attention in modern societies, from individuals as well as policy-makers. Human beings ...