Oxford University Press, 2009. — 264 p. — ISBN10: 0199552258; ISBN13: 978-0199552252. The distinguished philosopher Robert M. Adams presents a major work on virtue, which is once again a central topic in ethical thought. A Theory of Virtue is a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about the moral evaluation of character. Many recent attempts to stake out a place in...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 159 p. This short and accessible book is designed for those learning about the search for ethical rules that can apply despite cultural differences. Robert Audi looks at several such attempts: Aristotle, Kant; Mill; and the movement known as "common-sense" ethics associated with W.D. Ross. He shows how each attempt grew out of its own time and...
London, New York; UK, USA: Verso, 2001. — 221 p. — ISBN: 1859842976. Alain Badiou explodes the facile assumptions behind the recent ethical turn by governments of the West. He shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and ultimately fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the fundamental concepts of good...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 288 p. The pioneering moral philosopher Annette Baier presents a series of new and recent essays in ethics, broadly conceived to include both engagements with other philosophers and personal meditations on life. Baier's unique voice and insight illuminate a wide range of topics. In the public sphere, she enquires into patriotism, what we owe...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 141 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and tribalistic, or competitive and aggressive. In this clear introduction to ethics Simon...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 334 p. Ever since "Know Thyself" was inscribed at Delphi, Western philosophers have struggled to understand the relations between morality and self-interest. This edited volume of essays pushes forward one of the oldest and most important debates in philosophy. Is morality a check on self-interest or is it in one's self interest to be moral? Can...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 257 p. How do we think about what we will do? One dominant answer is that we select the best available option. When that answer is quantified it can be expressed mathematically, thus generating a maximizing account of practical reason. However, a growing number of philosophers would offer a different answer: Because we are not equipped to...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 298 p. What distinguishes evils from ordinary wrongs? Is hatred a necessarily evil? Are some evils unforgivable? Are there evils we should tolerate? What can make evils hard to recognize? Are evils inevitable? How can we best respond to and live with evils? Claudia Card offers a secular theory of evil that responds to these questions and more....
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 245 p. T. A. Cavanaugh defends double-effect reasoning (DER), also known as the principle of double effect. DER plays a role in anti-consequentialist ethics (such as deontology), in hard cases in which one cannot realize a good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, bad effect (for example, killing non-combatants when bombing a...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 310 p. After 25 centuries, Aristotle's influence on our society's moral thinking remains profound and he continues to be a very important contributor to contemporary debates in philosophical ethics. This collection showcases some of the best new writing on the Aristotelian notion of virtue of character, which remains central to much of the most...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 377 p. The central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or seriously compromising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural World, David Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism and argues that it can accommodate the normativity of morality. Largely because of...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 189 p. In Reasons and the Good Roger Crisp answers some of the oldest questions in moral philosophy. Claiming that a fundamental issue in normative ethics is what ultimate reasons for action we might have, he argues that the best statements of such reasons will not employ moral concepts. He investigates and explains the nature of reasons...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 306 p. Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention over the past few decades, and more recently there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. Ironically, although virtue epistemology got its inspiration from virtue ethics, this is the first book that brings virtue...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 155 p. The predominant view of moral virtue can be traced back to Aristotle. He believed that moral virtue must involve intellectual excellence. To have moral virtue, one must have practical wisdom – the ability to deliberate well and to see what is morally relevant in a given context. Julia Driver challenges this classical theory of virtue,...
For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgements and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defence of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. — 216 p. — ISBN10: 0742552608. For many years many Christians have exhibited bumper stickers and wrist bands challenging themselves to live up to WWJD — What Would Jesus Do? Now Andrew Fiala, a professor who has encountered many such students in his classes, objectively assesses just what it actually is that Jesus does (and doesn't) say...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 262 p. How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conduct towards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, or instinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on an engaging, informative tour of some of the main issues in philosophical ethics, explaining and defending the ideas of the earlymodern...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 266 p. This is a selection of essays on moral responsibility that represent the major components of John Martin Fischer's overall approach to freedom of the will and moral responsibility. The collection exhibits the overall structure of Fischer's view and shows how the various elements fit together to form a comprehensive framework for analyzing...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 202 p. Moral problems do not always come in the form of great social controversies. More often, the moral decisions we make are made quietly, constantly, and within the context of everyday activities and quotidian dilemmas. Indeed, these smaller decisions are based on a moral foundation that few of us ever stop to think about but which guides...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 339 p. For much of the twentieth century it was common to contrast the characteristic forms and preoccupations of modern ethical theory with those of the ancient world. However, the last few decades have seen a growing recognition that contemporary moral philosophy now has much in common with its ancient incarnation, in areas as diverse as...
Giovanni della Casa, Galateo overo de' costumi, a cura di Giancarlo Rati, Tascabili economici Newton, Roma 1993. Giovanni della Casa, Galateo overo de' costumi, testo originale con la versione in italiano di oggi di Myriam Cristallo, introduzione di Giorgio Manganelli, premessa al testo e note di Claudio Milanini, B.U.R., Milano 1992. cap. I Ideale di vita: i buoni costumi sono...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 312 p. In Reason’s Grief, George Harris takes W. B. Yeats’s comment that we begin to live only when we have conceived life as tragedy as a call for a tragic ethics, something the modern West has yet to produce. He argues that we must turn away from religious understandings of tragedy and the human condition and realize that our species will...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 246 p. This book provides a novel formulation and defence of moral error theory. It also provides a novel solution to the so-called now what question; viz., the question what we should do with our moral thought and talk after moral error theory. The novel formulation of moral error theory uses pragmatic presupposition rather than conceptual...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 520 p. In Intricate Ethics, Kamm questions the moral importance of some non-consequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section discusses nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the trolley problem; the second deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 356 p. 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. Korsgaard draws on the work of important figures in the history of philosophy such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hume, showing how their ideas can inform the solution of...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 289 p. In The Autonomy of Morality, Charles Larmore challenges two ideas that have shaped the modern mind. The world, he argues, is not a realm of value-neutral fact, nor is reason our capacity to impose principles of our own devising on an alien reality. Rather, reason consists in being responsive to reasons for thought and action that arise...
1989, University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN: 0-268-01942-8. In the book, MacIntyre argues that there are a number of different and incompatible accounts of practical reasoning or rationality — specifically those of Aristotle, Augustine, David Hume (and more broadly the "Scottish school") and Thomas Aquinas.The differing accounts of justice that are presented by Aristotle and...
Routledge, 2018. — 717 p. This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-three chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to: -the central research programs that frame metaethical discussions -the central explanatory challenges, resources, and strategies that inform contemporary work in those...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 338 p. In Goodness and Justice, Joseph Mendola develops a unified moral theory that defends the hedonism of classical utilitarianism, while evading utilitarianism’s familiar difficulties by adopting two modifications. His theory incorporates a new form of consequentialism. When, as is common, someone is engaged in conflicting group acts, it...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 358 p. Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand more generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory...
Los Angeles, USA: University of California Press, 2010. — 299 p. — ISBN: 0520265491. In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective?global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not...
Routledge, 2020. — 505 p. — ISBN: 978-0-367-40864-0, 978-0-367-80957-7. "The Metaphysics of Good and Evil" is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholastic theory of good and evil - the theory of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and most medieval and Thomistic philosophers. Goodness is analysed asobedience to nature....
2e édition mise à jour. — Presses Universitaires de France, 2008. — 200 p. — (Questions d'éthique) Cet ouvrage montre que les arguments avancés pour interdire la pornographie ne peuvent servir à justifier des décisions publiques dans une démocratie comme la nôtre. Ce n'est pas une "défense de la pornographie" mais une critique systématique des arguments les plus utilisés dans...
Oxford University Press, 1984. — 598 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-824908-5. Reasons and Persons is a philosophical work by Derek Parfit, first published in 1984. It focuses on ethics, rationality and personal identity. It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and responsibility toward future generations.
London: Constable and Company Ltd. 1920. — 115 p. The International Moral Education Congress. Open letter by The Rt. Hon. Sie Frederick Pollock, Bart., P.C., Chairman of the Permanent Executive Council Note by the author (in reply to Sir F. Pollock’s letter) Freedom Economic Freedom Karma and Causation Justice and Veracity Psychological Analysis Emotions Inversion Relativity...
Cengage Learning, 2011. — 272 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-111-29817-3; ISBN10: 1-111-29817-3. The classic ethics text written by one of contemporary philosophy's most skilled, ardent teachers, Louis P. Pojman, is now revised by best-selling author and editor of the INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY, James Fieser. ETHICS: DISCOVERING RIGHT AND WRONG, Seventh Edition, offers a concise...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 347 p. Jesse Prinz argues that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology supports two radical hypotheses about the nature of morality: moral values are based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. In the first half of the book, Jesse Prinz defends...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997. — 240 p. — ISBN: 0847683478. Esteemed moral philosopher James Rachels here collects fifteen essays, some classic and others extensively revised, on the nature and limits of moral reasoning. Rachels argues that, rather than simply expressing societal conventions, moral philosophy can subvert received opinion and replace it with something...
4th Edition. — McGraw-Hill Higher Ed., 2003. — 252 p. — ISBN: 007-2476907. The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels and Stuart Rachels is a best-selling text for undergraduate courses in ethics. Thirteen thought-provoking chapters introduce readers to major moral concepts and theories in philosophy through clear, understandable explanations and compelling discussions....
8th Edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2015. — 222 p. — ISBN: 978-0-07-811906-4. Instructors and students can now access their course content through the Connect digital learning platform by purchasing either standalone Connect access or a bundle of print and Connect access. McGraw-Hill Connectis a subscription-based learning service accessible online through your personal computer or...
9th Edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2018. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-259-91425-6. The Elements of Moral Philosophy 9e by James Rachels and Stuart Rachels is a best-selling text for undergraduate courses in ethics. Thirteen thought-provoking chapters introduce readers to major moral concepts and theories in philosophy through clear, understandable explanations and compelling discussions....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. — 320 p. For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport, The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book — based on his legendary Harvard course — Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has emerged as a most lucid and engaging guide for...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — xiv, 268 p. — (Oxford Moral Theory). — ISBN: 978-0-19-027011-7. True PDF Consequentialismis a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind important developments in moral philosophy. Recently, the debate has shifted in focus and in style. By seeking to consequentialize rival moral theories, in particular those with agent-relative...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 394 p. This is the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics. This series is devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersection of ethical theory and...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 279 p. Oxford Studies in Metaethics is devoted to providing an annual selection of some of the most exciting new work in the foundations of ethics. I am pleased that this aim has been so successfully met in this second volume of the series.
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 334 p. Oxford Studies in Metaethics is designed to collect, on an annual basis, some of the best new work being done in the field of metaethics. I’m very pleased to be able to present this third volume, one that has managed so successfully to fulfill the aims envisioned for the series.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 240 p. Aristotle and Confucius are pivotal figures in world history; nevertheless, Western and Eastern cultures have in modern times largely abandoned the insights of these masters. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius is the first book-length scholarly comparison of the ethics of Aristotle and Confucius. May Sim’s comparisons of...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 286 p. All contentious moral issues--from gay marriage to abortion and affirmative action--raise difficult questions about the justification of moral beliefs. How can we be justified in holding on to our own moral beliefs while recognizing that other intelligent people feel quite differently and that many moral beliefs are distorted by...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 311 p. Apologies pervade our news headlines and our private affairs, but how should we evaluate these often vague and deceptive rituals? Discussing numerous examples from ancient and recent history, I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies argues that we suffer from considerable confusion about the moral meanings and social functions of these...
Oxford University Press, 2003. - 213 p. The idea that we are in some significant sense responsible for our emotions is an idea that Robert Solomon has developed for almost three decades. Here, in a single volume, he traces the development of this theory of emotions and elaborate it in detail. Two themes run through his work: the first presents a "cognitive" theory of emotions...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 361 p. Autonomy has recently become one of the central concepts in contemporary moral philosophy andhas generatedmuch debate over its nature andvalue. This is the first volume to bring together original essays that address the theoretical foundations of the concept of autonomy, as well as essays that investigate the relationship between...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 360 p. In Value and Context Alan Thomas articulates and defends the view that human beings do possess moral and political knowledge but it is historically and culturally contextual knowledge in ways that, say, mathematical or chemical knowledge is not. In his exposition of "cognitive contextualism" in ethics and politics he makes wide-ranging...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 235 p. What can we do to live life wisely? You might think that the answer would be to think and reflect more. But this is not Valerie Tiberius's answer. On her view, when we really take account of what we are like - when we recognize our psychological limits - we will see that too much thinking and reflecting is bad for us. Instead, we need to...
6th Ed. — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 291 p. — (Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics). — ISBN10: 0198790597, 13 978-0198790594. Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 284 p. For over thirty years, Robert Audi has produced important work in ethics, epistemology, and the theory of action. This volume features thirteen new critical essays on Audi by a distinguished group of authors: Fred Adams, William Alston, Laurence BonJour, Roger Crisp, Elizabeth Fricker, Bernard Gert, Thomas Hurka, Hugh McCann, Al Mele,...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2007. — 325 p. The Mise en Scène: Moral Philosophy Now The Subject of Moral Philosophy, with Postscript 2007 Where Do Moral Theories Come From? Henry Sidgwick and Twentieth-century Ethics Clearer Views: An Expressive-Collaborative Model Authority and Transparency: The Example of Feminist Skepticism Charting Responsibilities: From...
Rīgā: Aequitas, 1928. — 10 lp. "Zimmels kādreiz mēģināja pierādīt, ka nav neviena morāliska principa, kuri aptvertu visas ētiskās normas. Ētiskās normas it kā sadalās noslēgtās sistēmās. Un ja arī katrā šaī atsevišķā sistēmā valda vislielākā iekšējā saskaņa, tad starp viņām nav netikvien harmonijas, bet notiek pat mūžīga cīņa par valdniecību morāles valstī. Pats šis cīņas fakts...
W. W. Norton & Company,2015. — 720 p. — ISBN13: 9780393265415. Doing Ethics emphasizes that moral decision making is an active process — something one does. The Fourth Edition provides students with the theoretical and logical tools that a morally mature person must bring to that process, and offers a wealth of readings and case studies for them to consider and discuss....
This is an HTML version of the paper published in Humor, the International Journal of Humor Research, May, 1998, copyright Walter de Gruyter. Abstract: This paper presents a theory of humor, that certain psychological state which tends to produce laughter. The theory states that humor is fully characterized by three conditions, each of which, separately, is necessary for humor...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 341 p. Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Themes...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 333 p. Moral Animals offers a brand new approach to moral theory. Drawing on anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory, as well as philosophy of language and philosophy of science, Catherine Wilson shows how to understand and reconcile our moral aspirations for a just world with the constraints human nature places on us. This ambitious...
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