Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken m...

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...

Focusing on the socialization of the human use of other animals as resources in contemporary Western society, this book explores the cultural repro...

This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of p...

Prostitution, Harm and Gender Inequality brings together international research exploring the range of gendered harms to women involved in prostitu...

Emerging over the past ten years from a set of post-structuralist theoretical lineages, non-representational theories are having a major impact wit...

Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radicall...

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in todays rapidly changing medi...

Derek Parfits On What Matters is widely recognized as elegant, profound, and destined to change the landscape of moral philosophy. In Volume One, P...

What is strange? Or better, who is strange? When do we encounter the strange? We encounter strangers when we are not at home: when we are in a fore...

American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three t...

While highly respected among evolutionary scholars, the sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Edward Westermarck is now largely forgotten in ...

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems c...

Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace...

Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philoso...

Environmental policy agendas, activism and academic research into ecological questions are all predominantly derived from the philosophical perspec...

Derek Parfit (19422017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Reasons and Persons is ar...

Ubuntu is the African idea of personhood: persons depend on other persons in order to be. This is summarised in the expression: umuntu ngumuntu nga...

Disrupting Journalism Ethics sets out to disrupt and change how we think about journalism and its ethics. The book contends that long-established w...

In making the argument for the remedy of inequality, contemporary political philosophers often emphasize the arbitrariness of disadvantage, stressi...

Published in 1999. Lifelong learning is the slogan with which the Labour Government has chosen to publicise and popularise its values and policies ...

The doctrinal and structural revolution currently underway in the Roman Catholic Church is alarming for several reasons, not least because of the a...