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Ethics after Anscombe
Post “Modern Moral Philosophy”
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
How, if at all, can we do moral philosophy in the light of the radical critique made by Elizabeth Anscombe in "Modem Moral Philosophy"? Among the principal theses of this essay is that ethical thinking (that of philosophers and others) suffers from a widespread appeal to incoherent uses...
The Ethics of Care
Personal, Political, and Global
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to...
The Invention of Autonomy
A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1997
This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Virtue ethics has emerged from a rich history, in which both Aristotle and Aquinas have played an important role, to become one of the fastest-growing fields in contemporary ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, leading moral philosophers offer a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics....
On The Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals; The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics. Included are Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Kant's Fundamental Principles...
Ethics in Practice
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The fourth edition of Ethics in Practice offers an impressive collection of 70 new, revised, and classic essays covering 13 key ethical issues. Essays integrate ethical theory and the discussion of practical moral problems into a text that is ideal for introductory and applied ethics courses.
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Ethics and Self-Cultivation
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been...
by Paul Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Wittgenstein’s philosophical achievement lies in the development of a new philosophical method rather than in the elaboration of a particular philosophical system. Dr Paul Johnston applies this innovative method to the central problems of moral philosophy: whether there can be ‘truth’ in ethics,...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy, with a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
From Psychology to Morality
Essays in Ethical Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
The essays in this collection belong to the tradition of naturalism in ethics. The tradition goes back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greek thought. Its program is to explain moral thought and action as wholly natural phenomena. Its aim, in other words, is to explain such thought...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
by Dennis R. Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Most philosophers still like to feel that they have a special subject matter, well insulated from anything that the social scientists, and scientists in general, have to tell them. That is not healthy for philosophy; and it is all too likely to lead to an ethics that continues, as of old, to plead...
The Machine Question
Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
An investigation into the assignment of moral responsibilities and rights to intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making.
One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal...
The Geography of Morals
Varieties of Moral Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between anthropology, empirical moral psychology, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural philosophy, and a deep exploration of the opportunities for self,...