Peter Singer - Böcker

Peter Singers klara och innehållsrika bok Praktisk etik har alltsedan den första utgivningen 1979 varit den klassiska introduktionen till tillämpad etik, och översatts till många språk. Bland bokens frågor finns sådana som direkt rör våra individu...

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The landmark book that opened the world's eyes to the suffering inflicted by humans on other animals, now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today. 'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects .....

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Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Peter Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad...

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Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories about society, economics, and politics have shaped and directed political and social thought for 150 years. In this new edition, Peter Singer discusses the legacy and imp...

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Peter Singer brukar beskrivas som en av världens mest inflytelserika filosofer. I Vår värld ger han sig i kast med för vår tid avgörande frågor såsom klimat, globalisering, bistånd mänskliga rättigheter och migration. Han ställer sig frågan om vem...

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Now fully rewritten and entirely updated to reflect the pressing problems of today, Animal Liberation Now presents the definitive case for radically rethinking humanity's relationship with other animals 'Probably the single most influent...

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One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses suc...

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Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopher Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of importa...

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Pocket Prescriber Pulmonary Medicine is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the must-have information that clinical professionals treating patients with respiratory conditions need to know. This book provides focused information...

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Edited by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, the acknowledged heirs of the founders of utilitarianism (Jeff McMahan), the Norton Library edition of Utilitarianism features the complete text of the seventh (1879) edition, preceded by a tho...

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How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, di...

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From the ethicist the New Yorker calls "the most influential living philosopher," a new way of thinking about living ethically "Singer's argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right. The world would be a better pl...

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Love him or hate him, you certainly can't ignore him. For the past 20 years, Princeton University philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer has pushed the hot buttons of our collective conscience. Singer has passionately challenged our c...

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Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"--our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals--inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to...

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?The indispensable foundational text for the movement, new and updated with the honesty and philosophical depth characteristic of all of Singer's work.? ?J.M. Coetzee, author of The Lives of Animals and Disgrace ?Peter Singer may be the most contr...

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Committed to Excellence in the Landmark Tenth Edition. This edition continues the evolution of Raven & Johnson’s Biology. The author team is committed to continually improving the text, keeping the student and learning foremost. We have inte...

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As Bill and Melinda Gates point out in their Foreword, Singer's classic essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality," is as relevant today as it ever was.

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In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "e;Famine, Affluence and Morality,"e; which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the sam...

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In 1972, the young philosopher Peter Singer published "e;Famine, Affluence and Morality,"e; which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the sam...

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While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But ...

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What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual ...

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What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual ...

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Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are...

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Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are...

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In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in act...

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In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in act...

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Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel'sphilosophy by providing a br...

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This volume contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition - Machiavelli, whose name is now a byword for duplicity, Hobbes, a great English political philosopher, Mill champion of individual liberty, ...

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Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this co...

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