Ethics Philosophy

Our parents often have a significant impact on the content of our beliefs, the values we hold, and the goals we pursue and becoming a parent can also have a similar impact on our lives. In Conceptions of Parenthood Michael Austin provides a rigorous and accessible philosophical analysis of the numer..

Fairbairn takes a fresh look at suicidal self-harm and reaches many novel conclusions about the current language and ethics of suicide and contributing greatly to the development of understanding in this sensitive area...

Contemporary Moral Issues..

Against the view that corporal punishment is morally legitimate and should be legally permitted provided it falls short of abuse, Lenta argues that all corporal punishment is morally impermissible and ought to be legally proscribed. He engages with empirical literature to examine the emotional and p..

Creative Morality is a philosophical examination of moral dilemmas. It analyses the ethical systems on which our moral decisions are based and suggest s a comprehensive ethical theory for the interpretation of contemporaty moral problems...

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason and clarifies the relation between the normative reason that an agent acts for and his or her motivating reasons...

Diffraction –proposes a new understanding of difference beyond binaries. Reflecting on the term’s implications and potentials, the book pursues new routes for our onto-epistemological and ethical responses to a fundamentally relational and entangled world. This book was originally published as a spe..

This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. Kershnar argues that these principles are inconsistent and explores the ways in which theories of hell, right forfeiture, and good consequences relate to the above inconsistencies...

In this engaging and much-needed book Jan Bransen argues that the rise of behavioural sciences has caused a sea change in the relationship between science and common sense. Drawing on fascinating examples such as language and communication, money, and folk physics, Don't be Fooled: A Philosophy of C..

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Written by world renowned Durkheim scholars, this book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's classic text on suicide, and revisits some of the key issues explored...

This title was first published in 2002: Kolnai's later work in moral philosophy is well-known, and interest in it continues to grow, but his dissertation, Ethical Value and Reality, has received little attention - although Kolnai himself said that it contains the germs of nearly all his subsequent t..