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Ethics & moral philosophy

hardcover. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1240.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
Edition
1984th Edition
SKU
V9780306415777
ISBN
9780306415777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.93

Hardcover. In this book, Weikart helps unlock the mystery of Hitler's evil by vividly demonstrating the surprising conclusion that Hitler's immorality flowed from a coherent ethic. Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
y First printing
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618077
ISBN
9780230618077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.00

Hardcover. What exactly is torture? Should we torture suspected terrorists if they have information about future violent acts? Defining torture carefully, the book defends the idea that all people are valuable, and rejects moral defenses of torture. It focuses particularly on practices like sensory deprivation, which perniciously attack the human psyche. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617315
ISBN
9780230617315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. What is the appropriate criterion to use for distributive justice? Is it efficiency, need, contribution, entitlement, equality, effort, or ability? This book maintains that far from being rival principles of distributive justice, efficiency and need satisfaction are, in fact, complementary norms in our emerging knowledge economy. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600898
ISBN
9780230600898
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.48

Hardcover. An account of the nature and value of the family within a liberal society. It defines 'family', and assesses the right to have a family, whether the family promotes injustice, and what future there is for the family in the face of significant changes. Num Pages: 152 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFFR; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230580596
ISBN
9780230580596
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. Critically examines theories of cosmopolitan justice grounded in the major traditions of moral philosophy. Drawing upon the international ethics tradition, this book presents an argument for the validity of obligations of social justice between countries. Series: Global Ethics. Num Pages: 197 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230579125
ISBN
9780230579125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Hardcover. Shows how a sophisticated version of pragmatism, resting on a novel conception of rationality, can justify a range of important practices, including our practices of moral and epistemic evaluation, as well as our practice of making judgments regarding free will and moral responsibility. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPK; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230576964
ISBN
9780230576964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Hardcover. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between economics and ethics, explaining why ethics enters economics, how ethics affects individual economic behaviour and the interactions of individuals, and how ethics is important in evaluating the performance of economies and of economic policies. Num Pages: 293 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230575950
ISBN
9780230575950
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.90

Hardcover. It is typically thought that the demandingness problem is specifically a problem for consequentialists because of the gradable nature of consequentialist theories. Shades of Goodness argues that most moral theories have a gradable structure and, more significantly, that this is an advantage, rather than a disadvantage, for those theories. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573574
ISBN
9780230573574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

Hardcover. More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFM; JPA; JPP; JPRB; KCP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230554009
ISBN
9780230554009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. Particularism and the Space of Moral Reasons critically assesses the startling idea that our moral reasoning does not need to use moral principles. If we don't have principles, how do we work out what to do? This book examines 'moral particularism', a controversial idea at the forefront of contemporary moral theory. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230552814
ISBN
9780230552814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.16

Hardcover. A clear and concise introduction to moral and political philosophy which critically analyses arguments about controversial and topical practical issues - drug laws, justifications of punishment, civil disobedience, whether there is a duty to obey the law, and global poverty. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230552753
ISBN
9780230552753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardcover. Engaging with current research in the philosophy of emotions, both analytic and continental, the author argues that reductionist accounts of emotions leave us in a state of poverty regarding our understanding of our world and of ourselves. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 407.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230542716
ISBN
9780230542716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.42

Paperback. In this first anthology of major philosophical contributions on the nature and justifiability of violence over the last 100 years , three basic questions are scrutinized: 'What is violence?', 'Is violence always wrong?', and 'Can violence be justified?'. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562. A Philosophical Anthology. 392 pages, 0. In this first anthology of major philosophical contributions on the nature and justifiability of violence over the last 100 years , three basic questions are scrutinized: 'What is violence?', 'Is violence always wrong?', and 'Can violence be justified?'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFE. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 23. Weight: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230537712
ISBN
9780230537712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardcover. In this first anthology of major philosophical contributions on the nature and justifiability of violence over the last 100 years , three basic questions are scrutinized: 'What is violence?', 'Is violence always wrong?', and 'Can violence be justified?'. Num Pages: 390 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 664.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230537705
ISBN
9780230537705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.84

Hardcover. This is a systematic study of 'companions in guilt' arguments in moral philosophy. Lillehammer distinguishes between two distinct forms of these, which he calls 'arguments by entailment' and 'arguments by analogy' respectively. For each strategy, Lillehammer examines three of its most prominent manifestations in contemporary ethical thought. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230527546
ISBN
9780230527546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardcover. Going beyond the controversy surrounding personhood in non-philosophical contexts, this book defends the need for a credible philosophical conception of the person. Engaging with John Locke, Derek Parfit and P.F. Strawson, the authors develop an original philosophical anthropology based on the work of Charles Hartshorne and A.N. Whitehead. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230522039
ISBN
9780230522039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.60

Hardcover. Mainstream discussions of ethics often search for a problem-solving theory or explore ontological status. This book argues instead that the proper starting point should be the words and deeds of ordinary people in ordinary disagreements - the ethical concepts in play can only derive full meaning within the context of ordinary human lives. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230506909
ISBN
9780230506909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. The western philosophical tradition has only recently explored alterity, in particular the alterity of woman as the other of man. This volume reflects on the ethical implications of this, and on the need for a rethinking of the implicit structures of Western philosophy, which exclude women as subjects who conceptualize the world and society. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230506879
ISBN
9780230506879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. Pornography is seen as morally problematic for a variety of reasons: coercion, exploitation, harm and the promulgation of inequality. The book looks at various ethical and political discussions concerning the production, exchange and consumption of pornography to propose a radical new approach centering on the concept of objectification. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230371118
ISBN
9780230371118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

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