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Moral Reflection

21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By William Ransome

$75.00 21 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Offers an approach to philosophical inquiry into the virtues, differing from the theory-building evident in usual treatments. This book contributes a perspective to the interpretation of key elements of the moral philosophies of Socrates, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.

Moral Machines

20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Teaching Robots Right from Wrong

By Wendell Wallach, Colin Allen

$29.95 20 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols. Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach argue that as robots take on more and more responsibility, they must be programmed with moral decision-making abilities, for our own safety. Taking a fast paced tour through the latest thinking about philosophical ethics and artificial intelligence, the authors argue that even if full moral agency for machines is a long way off, it is already necessary to start building a kind of functional morality, in which artificial moral agents have some basic ethical sensitivity. But the standard ethical theories don't seem adequate, and more socially engaged and engaging robots will be needed. As the authors show, the quest to build machines that are capable of telling right from wrong has begun. Moral Machines is the first book to examine the challenge of building artificial moral agents, probing deeply into the nature of human decision making and ethics.

Ethics

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Noel Stewart

$24.95 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Blackwell Publishers

Presents an introduction to moral philosophy. This book explains the arguments for and against the rival moral theories of Utilitarianism, Kant, Divine Command Theory and Virtue Ethics. It analyzes the conflicting advice various moral theories offer regarding three controversial areas of life, namely euthanasia, abortion and animal rights.

Ethics

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

By Noel Stewart

$64.95 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishers

Messy Morality

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Challenge of Politics

By C.A.J. Coady

$29.95 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He steers a course between realism, which rejects morality in politics, and moralism, which has a distorting influence on a realistic political morality; he seeks to rehabilitate the concept of ideals; and he discusses the contentious topics of 'dirty hands' and lying in politics.

Liam Wins the Game, Sometimes

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Story About Losing with Grace

By Jane Whelen Banks

$12.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Jessica Kingsley Publishers

'Liam loves playing games. His favourite game is 'Woof Woof' which he loves to play with Daddy. When Liam collects all the bones and Daddy loses, he says 'Good game Liam'. When Daddy wins, he gets to shout 'Woof Woof - I win!'. Liam does not like it when he doesn't win'.

The Call of Conscience

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

By Michael J. Hyde

$0.00 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of South Carolina Press

Considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to the controversial issues of euthanasia. This study investigates how the practice of rhetoric becomes a voice of conscience and influences the moral standards of individuals and communities.

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Diane Perpich

$65.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Stanford University Press

Levinas' thought is distanced from traditional ethical enterprises, especially from normative ethics. This title re-reads central ethical concepts in Levinas' thought (alterity, the face, and responsibility).

Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics

By Peg O'Connor

$55.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Pennsylvania State University Press

Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking a secure epistemological foundation and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, nature and normativity. This title develops an approach to the grounding of ethics (metaethics) that looks at interconnected nature of social practices.

Military Ethics

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthony Coady, Igor Primoratz

$275.00 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book gives a hearing to the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, and pacifism.

The Undiscovered Dewey

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy

By Professor Melvin L. Rogers

$45.00 14 Nov 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Moral Selves, Evil Selves

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Social Psychology of Conscience

By Steven Hitlin

$79.95 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Selfhood is a pressing contemporary philosophical issue. This book highlights the moral aspect of 'the self', examining the variety of neurological, psychological, and social processes that enter into the development of moral orientations.

The Choice of Hercules

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century

By A.C. Grayling

$14.54 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Orion Publishing Co

Duty or Pleasure? The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent, and arguably best known, philosophers

Contemporary Ethical Issues

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Personal Perspective

By Walter G. Jeffko

$27.95 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Prometheus Books

A collection of essays, which explore contemporary ethical problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976).

Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Revised Edition

By Francis Hutcheson, W. Leidhold

$16.29 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Liberty Fund Inc.,U.S.

Features an inquiry written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.

Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Revised Edition

By Francis Hutcheson, W. Leidhold

$20.00 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Liberty Fund Inc.,U.S.

Morality

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthropological Perspective

By Jarrett Zigon

$29.95 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Berg Publishers

Offers an account of anthropological approaches to the question of morality. This book combines theory with practical case studies for student use. It is suitable for both undergraduate students and researchers.

Morality

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthropological Perspective

By Jarrett Zigon

$99.95 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Berg Publishers

Responsibility, God and Society: Theological Ethics in Dialogue: Festschrift Roger Burggraeve

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By De Tavernier, J. Schotsmans, P. Selling, J. a.

$109.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Peeters

Legitimation Ethischer Entscheidungen Im Recht: Interdisziplinare Untersuchungen

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$129.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer

Mit Regelungen zu Fragen der modernen Medizin und Biotechnologie werden Entscheidungen getroffen, die das SelbstverstAndnis einer Gesellschaft oft grundlegend berA1/4hren. Auf unbestrittene, ausdifferenzierte, rechtliche oder ethische Standards kann dabei kaum zurA1/4ckgegriffen werden. Zugleich stellt der stAndige Fortschritt von Wissenschaft und Praxis die EffektivitAt rechtsfArmiger Entscheidungsverfahren auf die Probe.

Dieser interdisziplinAre Band wendet sich der Frage zu, wie diese ethisch-rechtlichen Herausforderungen in nationalen Rechtsordnungen, auf der Ebene der EuropAischen Union und im Bereich des VAlkerrechts in demokratisch oder anderweitig legitimer Weise bewAltigt werden.

The Art of the Samurai: Yamamoto Tsunetomo's Hagakure

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Tsunetomo, Yamamoto Yamamoto, Tsunetomo

$24.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Duncan Baird

The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What a Lifetime on the Water Has Taught Me about Love, Work, Food, Sex, and Ge

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Kaminsky, Peter

$9.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Skyhorse Publishing

In this fifth "meaning of life" guidebook, one of the premier experts of fly-fishing offers his unique musings of a joyful place where the bass and trout whisper a philosophy of life that makes sense.

Forbidden Fruit: The Ethics of Secularism

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Ethics of Secularism

By Kurtz, Paul

$17.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Prometheus Books

Are there ethical, non-religious choices that will work for a world in crisis? This title describes the means by which humanity can transcend the limitations of traditional religious loyalties and achieve a higher stage of ethics. It presents ethical recommendations as alternatives to the reigning orthodoxies.

Reading Ethics

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fricker, Miranda

$39.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Wiley-Blackwell

Enables students to think about the distinctive nature of moral philosophy, and to draw comparisons between different traditions of thought, between ancient and modern philosophies, and between theoretical and literary writing about the place of value in human life. This title includes a chapter that focus on the nature of goodness.

Bioethics in Historical Perspective: Medicine and Social Morality

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ferber, Sarah

$29.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Palgrave MacMillan

Bioethics in Historical Perspective: Medicine and Social Morality

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ferber, Sarah

$85.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

The Moral Brain: Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

By Braeckman, Johan Verplaetse, Jan De Schrijver, Jelle

$139.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer

Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Non-Identity Problem

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ethics, Genetics and the Non-identity Problem

By Roberts, Melinda A. Wasserman, David T.

$159.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer

The Transgenerational Policy

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thompson, Janna

$98.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer London

Democratization of Expertise?: Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-making

By Maasen, Sabine Weingart, Peter Weingart, P.

$50.00 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer London

A collection of essays which explore the relations between science and politics with the instruments of the social studies of science, thereby providing insights into their re-alignment under a regime of governance.

What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hales, Steven D.

$14.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Open Court Publishing Company

Do humans take dogs for walks, or are the dogs taking us for a ride? This book searches for answers with the eyes of an analyst and the mind of a philosopher. It is intended for thoughtful dog-lovers who want to sniff out the deeper issues raised by dogs and their relationships with humans.

What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Cat

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hales, Steven D.

$14.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Open Court Publishing Company

Investigates the majesty, the mystique, and the mystery of cats, uncovering surprising insights into the feline mind and the feline world, illustrated by anecdotes of cats they have known. This book poses questions such as: What ethical obligations do we have to cats? And, are cats more rational than humans?

This Is Ethical Theory

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Narveson, Jan

$36.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Open Court Publishing Company

Ethical questions lie at the very heart of all philosophy, and no one is better equipped to untangle the many facets of ethical theory than respected thinker and professor Jan Narveson. Drawing from theoretical notions as well as everyday applications, Narveson simplifies these nuanced ideas for any beginning ethicist. Discussing theoretical elements ranging from intuitionism to naturalism, emotivism to metaethics, Narveson's approach to this complex topic is one that any reader will find accessible.

Commonsense Darwinism: Evolution, Morality, and the Human Condition

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lemos, John

$34.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Open Court Publishing Company

Written in a simple, accessible style, "Commonsense Darwinism" offers a clear, critical examination of the subject. Assuming that the diversity of life, including human beings, is the result of evolution from common origins and that its driving force is natural selection, the book explores what this might mean for issues in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and metaphysics. The author's defense of free will makes this an especially stimulating read.

Providence Lost

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Lloyd, Genevieve

$29.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University Press

To the ancient Greeks, providence was the inherent purpose and rational structure of the world. In Christian thought, it became a benign will "providing" for human well-being. This work traces a succession of transformations in the concept of providence through the history of Western philosophy.

Death and Character: Further Reflections on Hume

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Further Reflections on Hume

By Baier, Annette C.

$39.95 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard University Press

Considers David Hume's views on character, desirable character traits, his treatment of historical characters, and his own character as shown not just by his cheerful death - and what he chose to read shortly before it - but also by changes in his writings, especially his repudiation of the celebrated "A Treatise on Human Nature".

The Autonomy of Morality

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles E. Larmore

$85.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

Charles Larmore challenges two ideas of human morality, ideas that have shaped the modern mind.

The Autonomy of Morality

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Charles E. Larmore

$24.99 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

Charles Larmore challenges two ideas of human morality, ideas that have shaped the modern mind.

Ethical Issues in Cancer Patient Care

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Peter Angelos

$49.95 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Addresses a variety of ethical issues that arise in the care of oncology patients. This work also addresses issues that are central to contemporary medical practice and medical ethics inquiry. It is suitable for practicing physicians, nurses and others caring for cancer patients.

The Morality of Money: An Exploration in Analytic Philosophy

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Exploration in Analytic Philosophy

By Walsh, Adrian Lynch, Tony

$90.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

Explores the moral concerns that the use, pursuit and deployment of money raise in individual and social life. This book develops a moral philosophy of money.

Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Legacy of the Splendid Vices

By Herdt, Jennifer A.

$55.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback University of Chicago Press

Reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought. This book traces a path from suspicion of virtue to its secular inversion, from confession of dependence to assertion of independence.

Fair Governance: The Enforcement of Morals

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Enforcement of Morals

By Buckley, Francis H. Buckley, F. H. (Francis H. ).

$85.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press, USA

The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, and Basic Income

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Van Donselaar, Gijs Donselaar, G. Van

$65.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press, USA

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy 2 Vol. Set

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$350.00 01 Nov 2008 Hardback MacMillan Reference Books

A2 Philosophy and Ethics for OCR

31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Evaluation Pack

By Ina Taylor

$36.31 31 Oct 2008 Multimedia Item Heinemann Educational Publishers

Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers

31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Constructing the World

By Omar W. Nasim

$75.00 31 Oct 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Focuses on the development of Bertrand Russell's philosophy. This book demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's work on the problem of the external world done at the tail-end of a controversy which raged between about 1900-1915.

Following the Rules

30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint

By Joseph Heath

$74.62 30 Oct 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Ethics of Energy

29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

William James's Moral Philosophy in Focus

$147.40 29 Oct 2008 Hardback ontos verlag

Offers an ethical view consistently arising out of valorisation of energy of William James' days, and effecting a counter-tendency to the two great popular scientific currents of the 19th century: the universalising of Darwinism and the pessimistic ideologies of social entropy.

Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice

24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Axel Gosseries, Alain Marciano, Alain Strowel

$74.95 24 Oct 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Presents a seminal exploration of intellectual property and theories of justice from a philosophical perspective. This title addresses the question, 'Can intellectual property rights be fair?'

The Constitution of Agency

23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology

By Christine M. Korsgaard

$40.00 23 Oct 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Christine M. Korsgaard is one of today's leading moral philosophers: this volume collects ten influential papers by her on practical reason and moral psychology. She draws on the work of such great philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, showing how their ideas can inform the solution of contemporary and traditional problems.

The Constitution of Agency

23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology

By Christine M. Korsgaard

$100.00 23 Oct 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

A Theory of Virtue

23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Excellence in Being for the Good

By Robert Merrihew Adams

$30.00 23 Oct 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character, proposing that virtue is chiefly a matter of being for what is good, and that virtues must be intrinsically excellent and not just beneficial or useful.

Ethics

21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Noel Stewart

$24.95 21 Oct 2008 Paperback Blackwell Publishers

Arguing About Disability

17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Philosophical Perspectives

By Kristiansen Kri

$140.00 17 Oct 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Offers an analysis and debate concerning the moral nature of institutions, policy and practice, and their significance for disabled people and society. This book uses a philosophical framework to explore central issues in disability studies. It discusses issues including personhood and social justice. It is intended for disability activists.

The Constitution of Agency

16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology

By Christine M. Korsgaard

$40.00 16 Oct 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

The Constitution of Agency

16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology

By Christine M. Korsgaard

$100.00 16 Oct 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Making Game

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Essay on Hunting, Familiar Things, and the Strangeness of Being Who One is

By Peter L. Atkinson

$33.67 15 Oct 2008 Paperback AU Press

An essay that reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game.

The Ethics of the Lie

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jean-Michel Rabate

$34.00 15 Oct 2008 Paperback Other Press LLC

From little white lies to the deepest, darkest ones, it is an accepted fact that we lie very often, at least three times a day. The thesis of this book is that lies are structured like paradoxes. Lying is a common social manifestation that is fraught with contradictions: we lie quite frequently, but we hate liars, and we detest being lied to.

Bodyworks

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Modernity and Morality

By John O'Neill

$23.57 15 Oct 2008 Paperback Hampton Press

An examination of such institutional sites as the media, literature, art, psychoanalysis and medicine, and cultural practices around disease, death and sexuality. It raises questions regarding conventions in the humanities and social sciences - life/death, good/bad, male/female, and more.

Bodyworks

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on Modernity and Morality

By John O'Neill

$51.87 15 Oct 2008 Hardback Hampton Press

The Call of Conscience

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

By Michael J. Hyde

$0.00 15 Oct 2008 Paperback University of South Carolina Press

Morality and the Literary Imagination (v. 36)

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gabriel R. Ricci

$34.95 15 Oct 2008 Paperback Transaction Publishers,U.S.

Part of the "Transaction" series, this work heeds Petrarch's advice that literature not only orients us to life's developmental stages, it can provide us with a more complete understanding of the human character while artfully advancing morals.

Difficulties of Ethical Life

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Schmidt, Dennis

$28.00 15 Oct 2008 Paperback Fordham University Press

Philosophy is being radically transformed by questions of how to live well. What does such a way of life mean? How are we to understand the meaning of ethicality? What are the obstacles to ethical living? And should we assume that an ethical life is a "better" life? This title considers issues relevant to living ethically.

Difficulties of Ethical Life

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Schmidt, Dennis

$80.00 15 Oct 2008 Hardback Fordham University Press

Philosophy is being radically transformed by questions of how to live well. What does such a way of life mean? How are we to understand the meaning of ethicality? What are the obstacles to ethical living? And should we assume that an ethical life is a 'better' life? This title considers issues relevant to living ethically.

Life's Philosophy

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World

By Arne Naess

$22.95 15 Oct 2008 Paperback University of Georgia Press

Offers a bold perspective on the power of feelings to move us away from ecological and cultural degradation toward sound, future-focused policy and action. This book acknowledges the powerlessness of the intellect without the heart, and, like Thoreau before him, he rejects the Cartesian notion of mind-body separation.

Reclaiming Moral Agency

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Moral Philosophy of Albert the Great

By Stanley B. Cunningham

$79.95 15 Oct 2008 Hardback The Catholic University of America Press

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the moral philosophy of Albert the Great (1200-1280). This book demonstrates that Albert was very concerned to produce a rigorously organized philosophy of moral goodness, and for the most part succeeded in that aim.

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Diane Perpich

$24.95 15 Oct 2008 Paperback Stanford University Press

Ethics, Information and Technology

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Readings

By Robert Hauptman

$39.95 15 Oct 2008 Paperback McFarland & Co Inc

A collection of essays that are divided into five subject areas: freedom of information and the pursuit of knowledge; information, technology and education; information, rights and social justice; ethics and the Internet; and professional ethics. It features writers who give a variety of views on the value of information and its ethical dimension.

Sins of the Flesh

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought

By Rod Preece

$98.00 15 Oct 2008 Hardback University of British Columbia Press

Full ethical consideration for animals resulting in the eschewing of flesh arose after the Aristotelian period in Greece and recurred in Ancient Rome, but then mostly disappeared for centuries. This book examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions from the origins of humanity.

A2 Philosophy and Ethics for OCR

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

$364.00 15 Oct 2008 Cd-Rom Pearson Education, Oxford

The Roots of Morality

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

$75.00 15 Oct 2008 Hardback Pennsylvania State University Press

Argues the case for a foundationalist ethics centrally based on an empirical understanding of human nature.

Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life

15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics

By Peg O'Connor

$55.00 15 Oct 2008 Hardback Pennsylvania State University Press

Five Types of Ethical Theory

10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By C.D. Broad

$40.95 10 Oct 2008 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Hannah Arendt

06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Simon Swift

$21.95 06 Oct 2008 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presents Hannah Arendt's work. This book offers a critical engagement with the cultural and philosophical crises of mid-twentieth-century Europe. It contains key ideas from her works such as "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and "The Human Condition".

Hannah Arendt

06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Simon Swift

$95.00 06 Oct 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Nietzsche's 'On the Genealogy of Morality'

02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction

By Lawrence J. Hatab

$90.00 02 Oct 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

A clear introduction to Nietzsche's influential text featuring a section-by-section analysis.

Reconciling Our Aims

02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In Search of Bases for Ethics

By Allan Gibbard

$24.95 02 Oct 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Spirituality and Meaning in Health Care: A Dutch Contribution to an Ongoing Discussion

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Bouwer, J.

$57.00 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Peeters

Mas Alla de La Violencia: Reflexiones Sobre El Origen y El Fin del Sufrimiento

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Krishnamurti, Jiddu

$14.95 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Editorial Kairos

Recognizing that the world is filled with violence, both on a global and individual scale, the author asserts that in order for society to change, individuals must produce a change within themselves. This fascinating analysis will provide readers with an understanding of the connection between humans and violence and will demonstrate how to achieve mental liberation and tranquility. "Realizando que el mundo esta lleno de violencia, tanto en el nivel global como individual, el autor sostiene que el cambio de la sociedad surgira cuando el ser humano produzca un cambio en si mismo. Este analisis fascinante proveera a los lectores un entendimiento de la conexion entre los humanos y la violencia y los mostrara a como alcanzar la liberacion de la mente y la tranquilidad total."

International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hitomi Takemura

$199.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

International human rights law grants individuals both rights and responsibilities. In this respect international criminal and international humanitarian law are no different. This is the study of the right to conscientious objection under international human rights law.

In Search of Ethics

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Marrella, Len

$19.95 01 Oct 2008 Hardback DC Press

The third edition of this best-selling book provides additional material that has made it so popular: additional new interviews, updated data and statistics, and new chapters dealing with character building. Containing interviews with individuals from a

Worldly Wisdom: Great Books and the Meaning(s) of Life

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Great Books and the Meanings of Life

By Allen, James S.

$29.95 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Frederic C. Beil Publisher

Explores some fifty works of philosophy, social thought, and literature (mainly but not exclusively from the West) to elucidate their contents and draw out ideas valuable for understanding human life in this world and for living that life well.

Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Nick Trakakis, Daniel Cohen

$63.68 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The problem of free will has fascinated philosophers since ancient times: Do we have free will, or at least the kind of free will that seems necessary for moral responsibility? This volume offers essays that focus on free will, and on allied notions such as moral responsibility, moral obligation, and fairness and meaningfulness.

Philosophy and Sex

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

4th Edition

By Robert B. Baker, Kathleen J. Wininger, Frederick A. Elliston

$30.95 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Prometheus Books

Features essays on adultery, monogamy, perversion, homosexuality, pederasty, sex without love, sexual equality and more. This book also includes essays on the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts and in South Africa (including a piece on homosexuality and Apartheid).

The Nature of Love

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Von Hildebrand, Dietrich

$40.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback St. Augustine's Press

Reading Ethics

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fricker, Miranda

$89.95 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Wiley-Blackwell

Encourages students to engage with key problems and arguments in ethics through a series of classic and contemporary readings. This text helps students to think about the nature of moral philosophy and to draw comparisons between different traditions. It includes themes such as: the nature of goodness, justice and virtue, and moral motivation.

Responsibility and Punishment

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By J. Angelo Corlett

$72.78 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Springer

The Bioethics of Regenerative Medicine

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ip, King-Tak

$119.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Springer

The use of human embryonic stem cells in research is justified by its promises to cure a wide range of diseases and disabilities. This book presents the points of controversy as they tease out the character of the moral issues that confront any attempt to develop the human regenerative technologies.

The Moral Brain: Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality

By Braeckman, Johan Verplaetse, Jan De Schrijver, Jelle

$139.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Springer

Democratization of Expertise?: Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-making

By Maasen, Sabine Weingart, Peter Weingart, P.

$50.00 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Springer London

Historical Dictionary of Ethics

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gensler, Harry J.

$95.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Scarecrow Press

Historical Dictionary of Ethics covers a broad range of topics, including theories, issues, and concepts; historical periods and historical figures; applied ethics; non-Western approaches; and related disciplines. Harry J. Gensler and Earl W. Spurgin tackle such issues as abortion, capital punishment, stem-cell research, and terrorism and explain such key theories as utilitarianism, natural law, social contract, and virtue ethics. This reference provides a complete overview of ethics through a detailed chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries, including bioethics, business ethics, Aristotle, Hobbes, autonomy, confidentiality, Confucius, and psychology.

Right to Die Right to Die

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stefoff, Rebecca

$39.93 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Benchmark Books (NY)

Loneliness as a Way of Life

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Thomas Dumm

$23.95 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Harvard University Press

"What does it mean to be lonely?" the author asks. His inquiry takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, he suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self.

Could There Have Been Nothing?

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Coggins, Geraldine

$85.00 01 Oct 2008 Hardback Palgrave MacMillan

"Could there have been nothing?" is the first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism - the claim that there could have been no concrete objects. It critically analyses the debate around nihilism and related questions about the metaphysics of possible worlds, concrete objects and ontological dependence.

The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I: Human Nature; Part II: de Corpore Politico with Three Lives

01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With Three Lives

By Hobbes, Thomas

$12.95 01 Oct 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press, USA

Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico, is a direct product of the intellectual and political strife of the seventeenth century. His analysis of the war between the individual and the group lays out the essential strands of his moral and political philosophy later made famous in Leviathan. This first ever complete paperback edition of Human Nature and De Corpore Politico is also supplemented by chapters from Hobbes' later work De Corpore and "The Three Lives," never before published together in English.

Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Revised Edition

By Francis Hutcheson, W. Leidhold

$25.39 29 Sep 2008 Hardback Liberty Fund Inc.,U.S.

Drugs and Justice

25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View

By Margaret P. Battin, Erik Luna, Arthur G. Lipman, Paul M. Gahlinger, Douglas E. Rollins, Jeanette C. Roberts, Troy L. Booher

$74.00 25 Sep 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press