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Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy
Av Toby Svoboda
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book argues that it can be both reasonable and appropriate to adopt a certain kind of misanthropy. The author defends a cognitivist version of misanthropy, an attitude whose central feature is the judgment that humanity is morally bad.Misanthropy is often dismissed on moral grounds. Many …
Making of the Good Person
Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help culture where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress, …
Self, Motivation, and Virtue
Innovative Interdisciplinary Research
Av Nancy E. Snow, Darcia Narvaez
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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This volume features new findings by nine interdisciplinary teams of researchers on the topics of self, motivation, and virtue. Nine chapters bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology advance our substantive understanding of these important …
Duties Regarding Nature
A Kantian Environmental Ethic
Av Toby Svoboda
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about non-human …
Virtue’s Reasons
New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons
Av Noell Birondo, S. Stewart Braun
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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Virtues and reasons are two of the most fruitful and important concepts in contemporary moral philosophy. Many writers have commented upon the close connection between virtues and reasons, but no one has done full justice to the complexity of this connection. It is generally recognized that the …
Love, Justice, and Autonomy
Philosophical Perspectives
Av Rachel Fedock, Michael Kühler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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Philosophers have long been interested in love and its general role in morality. This volume focuses on and explores the complex relation between love and justice as it appears within loving relationships, between lovers and their wider social context, and the broader political realm. Special …
Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book develops an intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. It accomplisheses four main goals. First, it outlines a concise list of the main principles of intersectional feminism. Second, it uses these principles to critique prevailing philosophical theories of moral …
In Defense of Moral Luck
Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by luck. For example, two reckless drivers manage their vehicles in the same way, and one but not the …
Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought
Av Reshef Agam-Segal, Edmund Dain
Häftad, 2019
739 kr
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Wittgenstein’s work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s …
Virtue, Narrative, and Self
Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action
Av Joseph Ulatowski, Liezl van Zyl
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples …
Practical Wisdom
Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Av Mario De Caro, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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Featuring original essays from leading scholars in philosophy and psychology, this volume investigates and rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of the most recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology.The concept of phronesis has long held a …
Principle of Double Effect
A History and Philosophical Defense
Av David Černý
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in ethics. Written from a non-theological perspective, it makes the case for the centrality of the double effect reasoning in philosophical ethics.The book is divided into two parts. The first part …
Apologies and Moral Repair
Rights, Duties, and Corrective Justice
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers.Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop short of …
Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media
Ethical and Epistemic Issues
Av Nancy E. Snow, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
Inbunden, 2021
746 kr
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This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens’ …
Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments.The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments …
Kantian and Sidgwickian Ethics
The Cosmos of Duty Above and the Moral Law Within
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy. Kant’s views on ethics continue to be discussed and studied in detail not only in philosophy, but also theology, political science, and legal theory. Meanwhile, Sidgwick is emerging as the philosopher within …
Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments.The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments …
Reason and Ethics
The Case Against Objective Value
Av Joel Marks
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this.Joel Marks goes beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the existence of all objective values. This …
Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media
Ethical and Epistemic Issues
Av Nancy E. Snow, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza
Häftad, 2023
651 kr
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This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture. The spread of post-truth communication affects ordinary citizens’ …
Reason and Ethics
The Case Against Objective Value
Av Joel Marks
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this.Joel Marks goes beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the existence of all objective values. This …
Offense and Offensiveness
A Philosophical Account
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions.When someone claims that something is offensive, …
Offense and Offensiveness
A Philosophical Account
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions.When someone claims that something is offensive, …
Getting Our Act Together
A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardTogether we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by ourselves. But when are we morally …
Getting Our Act Together
A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book AwardTogether we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by ourselves. But when are we morally …
Incomparable Values
Analysis, Axiomatics and Applications
Av John Nolt
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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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 book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable.Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, …
Incomparable Values
Analysis, Axiomatics and Applications
Av John Nolt
Häftad, 2024
636 kr
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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 book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable.Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, …
Moral Skepticism
New Essays
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Moral skepticism is at present a vibrant topic of philosophical inquiry. Particularly since the turn of the millennium, the debates between moral skeptics of various stripes and their opponents have gained renewed force not only by taking account of innovative ideas in moral philosophy, but also by …
Welfare, Meaning, and Worth
Av Aaron Smuts
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Welfare, Meaning, and Worth argues that there is more to what makes a life worth living than welfare, and that a good life does not consist of what is merely good for the one who lives it. Smuts defends an objective list theory that states that the notion of worth captures matters of importance for …
Risk, Technology, and Moral Emotions
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Risks arising from technologies raise important ethical issues. Although technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, ICT, and nuclear energy can improve human well-being, they may also convey risks for our well-being due to, for example, abuse, unintended side-effects, accidents, and …
Virtue, Narrative, and Self
Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action
Av Joseph Ulatowski, Liezl van Zyl
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples …
