Ethics & Moral Philosophy

This title was first published in 2002: Political ethics is a rapidly growing field in disciplines such as political science, philosophy, applied e...

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

This title was first published in 2002. Was the bombing of Belgrade morally justified as an attempt to halt 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo'? Should W...

First Published in 2001. Morality is viewed as a demanding and unsympathetic taskmaster, and as an external, foreign, even alien force. The moral l...

Winner of the Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological AssociationThis book offers a...

This title was first published in 2001: Governments world-wide have developed policies to encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, and small firm gr...

This title was first published in 2001: Governments world-wide have developed policies to encourage innovation, entrepreneurship, and small firm gr...

Debates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it?What Ev...

The standard view of psychotherapy as a treatment for mental disorders can obscure how therapy functions as a social practice that promotes concept...

Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still ...

This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international r...

First published in 1971, the five essays in this book were written by young philosophers at Cambridge at that time. They focus on two major questio...

Philosophers across many traditions have long theorized about the relationship between prudence and morality. Few clear answers have emerged, howev...

Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughe...

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This boo...

This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings ...

Biological diversity - or biodiversity - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grow...

What is leisure? How does leisure relate to leading a good life? This critical and intelligent study interrogates the basic principles of leisure a...

How do we understand human-nature relationships in tourism, or determine the consequences of these relationships to be good, bad, right, wrong, fai...

In crisis situations, such as terror attacks or societal tensions caused by migration, people tend to look for explicit moral and spiritual leaders...

This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious b...

How do we know right from wrong, good from bad, help from hindrance, and how can we judge the behaviour of others?Ethics are the rules and guidelin...

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues ...

A Book of Mindfulness, Kindfulness, and Words of WisdomRashanis extraordinary collages perfectly mirror Thich Nhat Hanhs simple yet powerful teachi...

What does a sanctuary for Hawaiian crows have in common with a troop of robots programmed to perform the Mori haka, or recreations of World Heritag...

Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is...

Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communaut...

The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of e...

This book discusses the diverse array of aquatic life of Indian waters, including rivers, lakes, and coastal regions. This book is a useful manual ...

In answering the question of lifes meaning, the African perspective is only just beginning to emerge. While this is true, a critical examination of...

This book marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 Hostage Case in which a US military tribunal in Nuremberg acquitted General Lothar Rendulic of dev...

A reading of the philosophical idea of world as it relates to the posthuman subject in Beckett's short proseJonathan Boulter offers the reader a wa...

How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity capable of addressing the uncertainties of our postfound...

Few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a dis...

The Ethics of Refugee Repatriation considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawin...

The dawn of the Enlightenment saw heated debates on self-love. Do people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation ...

This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rig...

When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten com...