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Moral Emotions and Intuitions
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00The author presents a new philosophical theory according to which we need intuitions and emotions in order to have objective moral knowledge, which is called affectual intuitionism. Affectual Intuitionism combines ethical intuitionism with a cognitive theory of emotions. more...
Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00By explicitly addressing moral knowledge from a particularist's perspective, this book can engage with an established and vibrant area of moral philosophy whilst making a distinctive and productive contribution to a relatively neglected dimension of it. more...
Theories of Ethics
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 44.95Theories of Ethics offers a comprehensive survey of the major schools and figures in moral philosophy, from Socrates to the present day. Written entirely in non-technical language, it aims to be introductory without being elementary, so that readers may quickly engage with selected readings from classic sources. The writings of major philosophers... more...
Philosophy as Criticism
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 22.95Philosophy of Criticism is both the final word from a celebrated philosopher on his distinguished career and an attempt, through critiques of his major contemporaries, to explore the future of philosophy. Born in Turkey, Ilham Dilman spent the majority of his working life teaching philosophy in the United States and Great Britain and published widely... more...
Conversations on Ethics
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 18.99Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists: Ken Binmore Philippa Foot Harry Frankfurt Allan Gibbard... more...
The Essence of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Axios Press 2011; US$ 9.99Axios Press?s Essence of . . . series takes the greatest works ever written in the field of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. We select the best passages?the ones that are immediately relevant to us today, full of timeless wisdom and advice about the world and how best to live our lives?and leave behind the more obscure or... more...
What Is Reparative Justice?
Marquette University Press 2010; US$ 15.00The idea of reparation of amends owed for wrongs and wrongful harms is ancient, universal, and a basic intuition of justice. Yet despite its ancient and distinguished lineage in Western philosophy, its familiar role in legal remedies for unjust losses and takings, and its increasing application to victims of political violence and repression,... more...
Doing Better
Marquette University Press 2010; US$ 30.00Doing Better is a unique book which, drawing on the generalized empirical method of Bernard Lonergan attempts to provide a fresh approach to ethics. Dunne asks his readers to engage in a number of exercises aimed at allowing them to discover for themselves what the character or moral judgment really is and the ways in which their own consciousness... more...
Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik (2010)
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 90.00Das 1996 erstmals vorgelegte Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik versteht sich als wissenschaftliches Forum zur Förderung des interdisziplinären Gesprächs über die ethischen Fragen, die mit der modernen Entwicklung von Wissenschaft und Technik verbunden sind. Es veröffentlicht Originalbeiträge, Berichte über wissenschaftliche Konferenzen und Forschungsprojekte... more...
Spinoza's 'Ethics'
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 15.95The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too controversial to be published during his lifetime,... more...









