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Oxford University Press Inc Solving Social Dilemmas Ethics Politics and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is refreshing in its approach and structure, which use analytical narratives rather than mathematical proofs. Social dilemmas require thinking and logic to provide solutions; hence, analytical narratives are helpful. Combining economics with ethics, Congleton provides an intriguing perspective on the rise of commercial societies. * Choice *The book is a remarkable work of scholarship and a pleasure to read. The methodical choice of topics, comprehensive arguments and cohesive synthesis will appeal to the scholarly community. The analytical framework of carefully introducing simple game theory and extensions of the payoff matrices of the games to account for the benefits of virtue and the costs of guilt is an expert exposition that will be appreciated by researchers with an inquiring mind. * George Tridimas, Constitutional Political Economy *The book makes a persuasive case, backed by extensive examples and careful analysis, for the claim that some systems of rules, and the associated set of moral intuitions and ethical dispositions thereby implied, are much more supportive of commercial society, and therefore of prosperity, than others. * Michael C. Munger, The Independent Review *
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Oxford University Press Inc Foundations of Institutional Reality
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Institutional Facts Chapter 2: Grounding and Reduction Chapter 3: Grounding Social Rules Chapter 4: Constitution by Rules Chapter 5: Artifacts and the Limits of Error Chapter 6: Rationalizing Practices Chapter 7: Power-Structuring Rules Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc Bioethics What Everyone Needs to KnowR
Book SynopsisThe questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be paid to donate eggs? Bioethics: What Everyone Needs to Know discusses these and other similar questions facing the public today--as well as providing a way for thinking deeply about them.Steinbock and Menzel first examine major moral theories and how they can be used to analyze bioethical issues. They then provide historical background to the birth of bioethics and explain how it shifted from a paternalistic doctor knows best approach to respect for autonomy, a fundamental value in contemporary bioethics. Subsequent chapters cover advance directives, experimentation on human subjects, the definition of death, physician-assisted dying, abortion, disability, just healthcare systems, the allocation of scarce resources, pharmTrade ReviewThe book's coverage is excellent and more than sufficient to ground a robust understanding of contemporary bioethics. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Virtue of Agency
Book SynopsisSôphrosunê (self-discipline) is the often-forgotten sibling of justice, wisdom, courage, and piety in discussions of canonical Greek virtues. Christopher Moore shows that during the classical period it was the object of significant debate--about its scope, its feel, its practical manifestations, and its value. By interpreting sôphrosunê as a commitment to norm-following, we see that these pointed discussions of the virtue, previously ignored as parodic moralizing or expressions of political propaganda, are in fact concerned with the ideal of human agency. These discussions query the way we become fully responsible for our actions. Greek thinking about sôphrosunê becomes thinking about self-constitution, our crucial capacity to act on the general reasons that we come to identify with as our own.This perspective explains sôphrosunê''s inclusion in Plato''s canon of virtues, and before that its frequent appearance in funerary inscriptions, elegiac poetry, tragic drama, and historiography.Table of ContentsSelected Abbreviations and Editions 1. Debating a virtue 2. The early history of sôphrosunê 3. Heraclitus, self-knowledge, and the greatest virtue 4. Tragic sôphrosunê in two plays of Euripides 5. The late fifth century 6. The figure of Socrates 7. Xenophon on sôphrosunê and enkrateia 8. Plato 1 - sôphrosunê and the capacity for action 9. Plato 2 - two formulations of agency 10. Plato 3 - sôphrosunê with wisdom in two late dialogues 11. Aristotle and the later fourth century 12. Pythagorean sôphrosunê 13. Sôphrosunê for later Greek women Epilogue: Translating an ancient virtue for modern times Epigraphical Appendix Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Awkwardness
Book SynopsisAwkwardness offers an account of the psychology and philosophical significance of a ubiquitous social phenomenon. Our aversion to awkwardness mirrors our desire for inclusion. This explains its power to influence and silence us: as social creatures, we don''t want to mark ourselves as outsiders. As a result, our fear of awkwardness inhibits critique and conversation, acting as an impediment to moral and social progress. Even the act of describing people as awkward exacerbates existing inequities, by consigning them to a social status that gives them less access to the social goods (knowledge, confidence, social esteem) needed to navigate potentially awkward situations.Awkwardness discusses how we ostracize and punish those who fail to fit into existing social categories; how we all depend on--and are limited by--social scripts and norms for guidance; and how these norms frequently let us down when we need them. But awkwardness has a positive side: it can highlight opportunities for moral and social improvement, by revealing areas where our social norms and scripts fail to meet our needs or have yet to catch up with changing social and moral realities. Awkwardness ultimately underscores the conflict between our moral motivations and our desire for social approval and conformity.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Social Cost of Carbon
Book SynopsisCalled the the most important number you''ve never heard of by leading environmental economists, the social cost of carbon (SCC) aims to capture in a precise number the harm caused by emitting a single ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. In The Social Cost of Carbon, J. Paul Kelleher offers a systematic analysis of the social cost of carbon, its theoretical basis, and its proper role in climate economics and climate policy design. The book explains that the SCC is not one concept but four, each of which is addressed to a distinct task in climate economics. Moreover, these concepts can be sorted into two families that correspond to the two branches of welfare economics, social choice theory and general equilibrium theory. Kelleher draws on these radically different theoretical frameworks to explain how a mathematically identical pair of SCC concepts can emerge from each. He then argues that the analytical power of each SCC concept is limited by its inability to fully capture the ethical considerations that bear on responsible climate policy. The book concludes by explaining how some SCC concepts can and should be put to work in real-world climate change policy analysis-providing practical advice for translating the SCC into tangible change.
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Oxford University Press Inc Honesty
Book SynopsisHonesty is an important virtue. Parents want to develop it in their children. Close relationships depend upon it. Employers value it in their employees. Surprisingly, however, philosophers have said very little about the virtue of honesty over the past fifty years. In this book, Christian B. Miller aims to draw much greater attention to this neglected virtue. The first part of the book looks at the concept of honesty. It takes up questions such as: What does honesty involve? What are the motives of an honest person? How does practical wisdom relate to honesty? Miller explores what connects the many sides of honesty, including not lying, not stealing, not breaking promises, not misleading others, and not cheating. He argues that the honest person reliably does not intentionally distort the facts as she takes them to be. Miller then examines the empirical psychology of honesty. He takes up the question of whether most people are honest, dishonest, or somewhere in between. Drawing extensively on recent studies of cheating and lying, the model Miller articulates ultimately implies that most of us have a long way to go to reach an honest character. Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue provides both a richer understanding of what our character looks like, as well as what the goal of being an honest person actually involves. Miller then leaves it up to us to decide if we want to take steps to shrink the character gap between the two.Trade ReviewThis book provides a clear picture of where things stand with honesty in an academic context. Miller, who directs the Honesty Project at Wake Forest, offers an extended philosophical account of the concept of honesty and what being an honest person means. He reflects on the nature of character and offers interesting diversions on cheating, self-deception, stealing, promising, and so on. * R. White, Creighton University, Choice Connect *Table of ContentsPreface I. The Philosophy of Honesty 1. Preliminaries to Developing an Account of Honesty 2. A Preliminary Account of Honesty 3. Refining the Account: Considering Challenges and Counterexamples 4. Motivation and Honesty 5. Practical Wisdom and Honesty 6. Dishonesty and the Virtuousness of Honesty Interlude 7. Classification and Taxonomy II. The Empirical Data 8. Research on Stealing and Promise-Breaking 9. Research on Lying and Cheating 10. The Emerging Psychological and Moral Picture Afterword: Improving our Less Than Honest Characters Works Cited Index
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Oxford University Press Inc A Livable Planet
Book SynopsisHumanity faces an ecological predicament, consisting of a cluster of concurrent, mutually reinforcing crises. They are causally intertwined and resistant to resolution in isolation. In addition to climate disruption, the cluster includes land-system change, loss of biodiversity and biosphere integrity, alteration of biogeochemical cycles, and decreased freshwater availability. Madison Powers argues for a targeted human rights approach to the resolution of our predicament. He assigns priority to a bundle of rights strategically important for counteracting ecologically unsustainable, economically predatory market practices. These practices exhaust natural resources or degrade the environmental conditions essential for a livable planet. Their harmful ecological effects result from or are exacerbated by the structure of the global political economy, especially institutions that influence the acquisition, control, and use of land, energy, and water resources. These institutions shape the ec
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Oxford University Press Inc Global Sweatshops
Book SynopsisSweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the garment industry are women, many of them migrant women. Philosopher Mirjam Müller asks: Why are sweatshops so resistant to emancipatory transformation? How should we think about the relationship between class, gender, and race on the factory floor of sweatshops? What insights can be drawn from this for understanding the systematic relation between capitalism, gender oppression, and racial oppression? Does sweatshop labour raise distinct normative concerns compared to other forms of wage labour? Müller answers these questions by developing a feminist critique of working conditions in the global textile industry that draws on work in feminist, Marxist, post-/decolonial, and critical race theory. She shows how sweatshop labour is embedded in historically specific structures of global capitalism that raise unique normative concerns. The book provides a normative and practical account that highlights spaces of resistance, as well as the responsibility of actors implicated in sweatshop labour relations to work towards structural change. Based on this analysis, Müller argues that sweatshop workers are structurally vulnerable to exploitation in virtue of their position as gendered, racialized, and migrant workers within global supply chains. While this exploitation benefits powerful actors along global supply chains, it also creates spaces of resistance and structural transformation.
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Oxford University Press A Moral Theory of Liveliness
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Oxford University Press Rights and Resistance
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Oxford University Press Passion and Action
Book SynopsisPassion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Trade ReviewWhen philosophers write about the importance of the emotions today, they usually begin by condemning earlier philosophers for separating the emotions from reason (and then all but ignoring them). Nothing could be further from the approach of Susan James ... in this beautifully written study. Her subtle and erudite interpretations of major texts of the seventeenth century show that the passions were at the heart of early modern philosophy ... her recovery of the treatment of the passions and of action in a wealth of authors from Descartes to Locke provides a perspective from which we can free ourselves a little from the unsatisfactory way we view the emotions today, and so enables us to think differently about their proper place in a sound human life. Her study also shows how early modern philosophers were open to and deeply influenced by areas of European culture other than philosophy where the emotions were at centre stage. * James Tully, Common Knowledge *
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Oxford University Press From Rationality to Equality
Book SynopsisMost contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In From Rationality to Equality, James P. Sterba provides just such an argument and further shows that morality, so justified, requires substantial equality. His argument from rationality to morality is based on the principle of non-question-beggingness and has two forms. The first assumes that the egoist is willing to argue for egoism non-question-beggingly, and the second only assumes that the egoist is willing to assent to premises she actually needs to achieve her egoistic goals. Either way, he argues, morality is rationally (i.e., non-question-beggingly) preferable to egoism.Sterba''s argument from morality to equality non-question-beggingly starts with assumptions that are acceptable from a libertarian perspective, the view that appears to endorse the least enforcement of morality, and then shows that this perspective requires a right to welfare which, wTrade ReviewJames P. Sterba has put together a clearly written, closely and thoroughly argued, and well-organized book that advances arguments that address two fundamental questions in ethics and social theory. * Social Theory and Practice *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. The Historical Connection to Immanuel Kant ; 3. From Rationality to Morality ; 4. Critics of the Rationality to Morality Argument ; 5. Alternative Justifications for Morality ; 6. From Liberty to Equality ; 7. Critics of the Liberty to Equality Argument ; 8. Alternative Justifications for Welfare and Equality ; 9. Conclusion
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Oxford University Press, USA Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility Volume 3
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a forum for outstanding new work in an area of vigorous and broad-ranging debate in philosophy and beyond. What is involved in human action? Can philosophy and science illuminate debate about free will? How should we answer questions about responsibility for action?Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Free Will and Agential Powers ; 2. Injecting the Phenomenology of Agency Into the Free Will Debate ; 3. Coherence of Attitudes, Integration of the Self, and Personal Integrity ; 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Moral Agency ; 5. Sensitivity to Reasons and Actual Sequences ; 6. Responsibility and the Actual Sequence ; 7. Moral Luck Reexamined ; 8. The Hard Problem of Responsibility ; 9. Rationality, Authority, and Bindingness: An Account of Communal Norms ; 10. A Difference-Making Framework for Intuitive Judgments of Responsibility ; 11. Moral Responsibility, Reasons, and the Self ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Epistemology of Disagreement New Essays
Book SynopsisThe Epistemology of Disagreement brings together essays from a dozen philosophers on the epistemic significance of disagreement; all but one of the essays are new. Questions discussed include: When (if ever) does the disagreement of others require a rational agent to revise her beliefs? Do ''conciliatory'' accounts, on which agents are required to revise significantly, suffer from fatal problems of self-defeat, given the disagreement about disagreement? What is the significance of disagreement about philosophical topics in particular? How does the epistemology of disagreement relate to broader epistemic theorizing? Does the increased significance of multiple disagreeing agents depend on their being independent of one another? John Hawthorne and Amia Srinivasan, Thomas Kelly, and Brian Weatherson all weigh in with attacks on conciliatory views or defenses of non-conciliatory approaches. David Christensen and Stewart Cohen take up the opposite side of the debate. Bryan Frances, Sanford GTrade Reviewthis book advances our previous understanding of the topic and draws attention to new issues for exploration. It is essential reading for anyone interested in epistemological and meta-philosophical topics. * Nathan Ballantyne, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPART ONE: THE DEBATE BETWEEN CONCILIATORY AND STEADFAST THEORISTS; A. FOR STEADFASTNESS; B. FOR CONCILIATION; PART TWO: DISAGREEMENT IN PHILOSOPHY; PART THREE: NEW CONCEPTS AND NEW PROBLEMS IN THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DISAGREEMENT
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Oxford University Press Utilitarianism
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, providing the student with detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar references and terminology, and a full bibliography and index are also included. The series aims to build up a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, which will form a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike. John Stuart Mill''s Utilitarianism is one of the most important, controversial, and suggestive works of moral philosophy ever written. Mill defends the view that all human action shTable of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL; PART 2: THE TEXT; PART 3: NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND INDEX
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Oxford University Press Action Knowledge and Will
Book SynopsisWhat is the difference between the movements in our bodies we cause personally ourselves, such as the movements of our legs or our lips when we walk or speak, and the movements we do not cause personally, such as the contraction of the heart? Is an act that is done under duress done voluntarily, out of choice? Should duress exculpate a defendant completely, or should it merely mitigate the criminality of an act? When we explain an intentional act by stating our reasons for doing it, do we explain it causally or teleologically, or both? Should we care whether our choices are guided by knowledge or mere true belief?In Action, Knowledge, and Will, John Hyman explores these and other central problems in the philosophy of action and the theory of knowledge, and connects these areas of enquiry in a new way. The main premise of the book is that human action has four irreducibly different dimensions, each with its own family of concepts: - a physical dimension, in which the principal concepts Trade ReviewAction, Knowledge, and Will is a splendid book--insightful, original, elegantly written and carefully edited, and a genuine pleasure to read. John Hyman weaves strands of historical, legal, empirical, and conceptual analysis into a series of arguments that are fresh and exciting at every turn. * John Schwenkler, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *John Hyman is one of the most creative and wide-ranging philosophers working today. * Kieran Setiya, MIT *With this book, John Hyman has done more for action theory than anyone in the field since Anscombe. His arguments in support of the thesis that human agency is best conceived as the integration of four dimensions presents a new picture that, in time, will change the way everyone thinks about human action. * Dennis Patterson, Jurisprudence *[T]he most important treatment of action since Anscombe and Davidson ... It takes the traditional question whether we should give a physical, ethical, psychological or intellectual account of human action and stands it on its head. For Hyman argues that the real question is how to distinguish the physical, the ethical, the psychological and the intellectual dimensions of human action, and he thereby changes the landscape in the philosophy of action. * Evgenia Mylonaki, Philosophical Quarterly *John Hyman brilliantly tackles a problem that has rankled since Plato: what is involved when we voluntarily perform an action? "The will", he argues, has been made too much of a catch-all of the various dimensions of human agency -- physical, psychological, ethical and intellectual. Philosophy is all about fine distinctions. Here they are made acutely yet accessibly to give us a new picture of who we are. * Jane O'Grady, The Tablet, Books of the Year *John Hyman's new book is a masterful blend of the philosophy of action and epistemology. In it he seeks not only to realign the philosophy of action, but to turn epistemology -- at least, that part of it that is concerned with the nature of knowledge -- into a part of the philosophy of action. ... Hyman's book is an invitation to a radical new research programme in epistemology. I hope that others join him in working it out. * Analysis *How could knowledge be even better for us than true beliefs that we have good reason to accept? John Hyman answers this question in Action, Knowledge, and Will. It is by no means the only question he answers in this rich, delightful book. He reaches fresh, insightful conclusions about human action and thought by attending to connections between questions usually treated separately. He explains and defends those conclusions sharply and carefully, with admirable regard for what the words involved in the question actually mean. * Barry Stroud, Times Literary Supplement *[A] vast improvement over the anti-psychologistic accounts of reasons-explanations that have proliferated in recent years. It both allows us to emphasize reasons why as facts that favor actions while allowing us to include an agent's psychological states in genuine reasons-explanations. ... While he challenges many widely endorsed views in contemporary philosophy of action, Hyman does not adopt an unprincipled contrarian stance. Rather, he strikes me as a friendly critic, offering ways to correct mistakes philosophers have made in the past three hundred years. * Andrei A. Buckareff, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface 1: Agency and the Will 2: Action and Integration 3: Acts and Events 4: Voluntariness and Choice 5: Desire and Intention 6: Reason and Knowledge 7: Knowledge as an Ability 8: The Road to Larissa Appendix: The Modern Theory of the Will Endnotes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Oxford University Press FamilyMaking Contemporary Ethical Challenges Issues In Biomedical Ethics
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the ethics of making or expanding families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. For many people, these methods are separate and distinct: they can choose either adoption or assisted reproduction. But for others, these options blend together. For example, in some jurisdictions, the path of assisted reproduction for same-sex couples is complicated by the need for the partner who is not genetically related to the resulting child to adopt this child if she wants to become the child''s legal parent. The essays in this volume critically examine moral choices to pursue adoption, assisted reproduction, or both, and highlight the social norms that can distort decision-making. Among these norms are those that favour people having biologically related children (''bionormativity'') or that privilege a traditional understanding of family as a heterosexual unit with one or more children where both parents are the genetic, biological, legal, and social parenTrade Review`Anyone grappling with such questions must immediately welcome this impressively comprehensive collection of essays, artfully edited by Françoise Baylis and Carolyn McLeod. Indeed, anyone who shares at least one of these interests, personally or professionally, will appreciate the volume's breadth of insight. The editors set out to canvas the moral terrain of nontraditional family making, or family making through adoption and/or assisted reproductive technology (ART). And they have brought together papers that shed important light on the various contemporary ethical challenges that couples and individuals face depending on the manner in which they choose to welcome children into their lives.' Vida Panitch, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to BioethicsTable of ContentsFAMILIES: OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN 15; BIONORMATIVITY: PHILOSOPHICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES; BECOMING A PARENT: PERSONAL CHOICES; BECOMING A PARENT: STATE INTERESTS; SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF PARENTS; CONTESTED PRACTICES
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Oxford University Press The Politics of Social Cohesion
Book SynopsisImmigration is a divisive policy issue in modern liberal democracies. A common worry is that immigration poses a threat to social cohesion, and so to the social unity that underpins cooperation, stable democratic institutions, and a robust welfare state. At the heart of this worry is the suggestion that social cohesion requires a shared identity at the societal level. In The Politics of Social Cohesion, Nils Holtug gives a careful assessment of the impact of immigration on social cohesion and egalitarian redistribution. First, he critically scrutinizes an influential argument, according to which immigration leads to ethnic diversity, which again tends to undermine trust and solidarity and so the social basis for redistribution. According to this argument, immigration should be severely restricted. And second, he considers the suggestion that, in response to worries about immigration, states should promote a shared identity to foster social cohesion in the citizenry. Holtug argues that Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I. Identity, Social Cohesion and Justice 2: National Identities and Nation-Building 3: Social Cohesion and Identity 4: Social Justice Part II. Immigration 5: Immigration and the Progressive's Dilemma 6: Global Justice Part III. Integration 7: Nationalism 8: Liberalism 9: Multiculturalism
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Oxford University Press RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE MARGIN
Book SynopsisDavid Shoemaker presents a new pluralistic theory of responsibility, based on the idea of quality of will. His approach is motivated by our ambivalence to real-life cases of marginal agency, such as those caused by clinical depression, dementia, scrupulosity, psychopathy, autism, intellectual disability, and poor formative circumstances. Our ambivalent responses suggest that such agents are responsible in some ways but not others. Shoemaker develops a theory to account for our ambivalence, via close examination of several categories of pan-cultural emotional responsibility responses (sentiments) and their appropriateness conditions. The result is three distinct types of responsibility, each with its own set of required capacities: attributability, answerability, and accountability. Attributability is about the having and expressing of various traits of character, and it is the target of a range of aretaic sentiments and emotional practices organized around disdain and admiration. AnsweTrade ReviewShoemaker gives a sophisticated treatment of a wide variety of marginal agents. His nuanced case studies will provide an invaluable resource for any further work on the real-world conundrums of responsibility. * Daniel Cohen, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *David Shoemaker's excellent book is an admirably careful, imaginative, and detailed account of a pluralistic account of responsibility . . .This is a wonderful book, and there are layers of value to be had from it. Shoemaker's theory is rich and provocative; his survey and analysis of the empirical research is exemplary. His discussion of the use and misuse of the "moral/ conventional task" is a particular standout. In many of his discussions, Shoemaker is breaking new ground, enriching the field with new examples and areas to consider. This book is a major contribution. * Christopher W. Gowans, Ethics *Shoemaker's approach will certainly influence how debates about moral responsibility unfold in the coming years. * Matthew Talbert, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *It is both technically precise as well as clear and accessible, and should be of interest to philosophers, psychological theorists, mental health professionals and caregivers to those who fit the "marginal" label. It breaks new ground in the philosophy of responsibility by drawing important distinctions between types of attitudes associated with responsibility that have long been overlooked and has major practical significance due to the inclusion of suggestions for how our ways of treating marginal agents can be improved . . . Responsibility from the Margins is a refreshing new take on an old philosophical issue that also provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary presentation of new work on the moral emotions and related psychiatric disorders. Anyone who thinks about such issues or has marginal agents in their life, and is unsure of how to relate to those individuals, should find it valuable. * Ben Abelson, Metapsychology Online Reviews *Table of ContentsPART ONE: THE TRIPARTITE THEORY OF RESPONSIBILITY; PART TWO: AMBIVALENCE AT THE MARGINS
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Oxford University Press Law and Life in Common
Book SynopsisWe live in a moral world in which reasons come in different kinds as well as different weights, so that the claims of one reason upon us are often different from but no greater than the claims of some other reason. Yet law, in its self-presentation and in theoretical accounts of it, proceeds as if its rational pull was conclusive, as if there were no sensible alternative to compliance with its terms. In itself that should not be surprising: each of us often acts as if the reasons that animate us were morally determinative. Why should law operate in any other way? Yet we know that in fact reasons are usually not determinative of action, and while pretence to the contrary may not much matter in individual settings, it matters very much in the setting of the law. The ability of the law to build a life in common, of whatever kind, is dependent on its ability to function, most of the time at least, as if its claims were pre-eminent, rather than undefeated at best. If law is to succeed in itTable of Contents1: The Problem of Law 2: Decision, For One and For the Many 3: The Exaltation of the Will 4: The Genius of the Place 5: The Service Law May Offer to Life in Common 6: Appreciating the Limits of the Service Conception of Authority 7: Ideas of Easy Virtue: Descriptions and Evaluation 8: Law and Life in Common
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Oxford University Press Why Does Inequality Matter Uehiro Series in
Book SynopsisInequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they have and what others have, as opposed simply to wanting to be better off. This book examines six such reasons. Inequality can be objectionable because it arises from a failure of some agent to give equal concern to the interests of different parties to whom it is obligated to provide some good. It can be objectionable because it involves or gives rise to objectionable inequalities in status. It can be objectionable because it gives the rich unacceptable forms of control over the lives of those who have less. It can be objectionable because it interferes with the procedural fairness of economic institutions, or because it deprives some people of substantive opportunity to take part in those institutions. Inequality can be objectionable because it interferes with the fairness of political institutions. Finally, inequality in wealth and income can be objectionable because it is unfair: the institutional mechanisms that produce it cannot be justified in the relevant way. Scanlon''s aims is to provide a moral anatomy of these six reasons, and the ideas of equality that they involve. He also examines objections to the pursuit of equality on the ground that it involves objectionable interference with individual liberty, and argues that ideas of desert do not provide a basis either for justifying significant economic inequality or for objecting to it.Trade ReviewThis book's lengthy discussion of when and why inequality is morally objectionable expertly combines accessibility, subtlety, and sophistication ... the book is clearly written, discusses many arguments in both public debate and academic literature, and develops and assesses various ways in which such arguments can be developed. The main strength of this book is not its novelty, since many arguments can be found in Scanlon's earlier work as well, but the way it summarizes and collects arguments against inequality and presents them in an accessible style. This book is a must read for anyone interested in inequality and social justice. * Dick Timmer, Journal of Moral Philosophy *Scanlon's Why DoesInequality Matter? is a significant contribution to assessing what is wrong with economic inequality from a relational egalitarian perspective. * Carina Fourie, Mind *[A] densely packed and succinctly written book which is analytical political philosophy at its best: clear, rigorous, and admirably sharp. It's also pitched at just the right level of abstraction; no one who reads it could fail to appreciate how Scanlon is troubled by the sheer extent of inequality in the United States, and there are suggestions of policy positions, for example dispersal of media ownership. ... anyone remotely interested in egalitarianism will find much to reward them in this outstanding book. * Jonathan Seglow, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Equal Concern 3: Status Inequality 4: Procedural Fairness 5: Substantive Opportunity 6: Political Equality 7: Equality, Liberty, and Coercion 8: Desert 9: Unequal Income 10: Conclusions
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Oxford University Press Evil
Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word ''evil''. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures his victims is not merely a bad person. He is evil. And as the Holocaust showed us, we must remain vigilant against the threat of evil. But what exactly is evil? If we use the word ''evil'', are we buying into a naive Manichean worldview, in which two cosmic forces of good and evil are pitted against one another? Are we guilty of demonizing our enemies? How does ''evil'' go beyond what is merely bad or wrong? This Very Short Introduction explores the answers that philosophers have offered to these questions. Luke Russell discusses why some philosophers think that evil is a myth or a fantasy, while others think that evil is real, and is a concept which plays an important role in contemporary secular morality. Along the way he asks whether evil is always horrific and incomprehensible, or if it can be banal. Considering if there is a special psychological hallmark that sets the evildoers apart from the rest of us, Russell also engages with ongoing discussions over psychopathy and empathy, analysing the psychology behind evildoing.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThis is a stark, unequivocal position that forces us to think about where the margin of our ethical relationship with other people lies. But as Russell makes clear from the beginning, evil is by its nature extreme, and it calls us to think about it in the extremity. * Eoghan Smith, Society *Table of Contents1: The philosophical puzzle of evil 2: The horror and incomprehensibility of evil 3: The psychological hallmark of evil 4: The banality of evil 5: An evil person 6: Are you evil? Is anyone evil?
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Oxford University Press Philosophers Take On the World
Book SynopsisEvery day the news shows us provoking stories about what''s going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing to the shocking, in short, engaging, often controversial pieces. Covering topics from guns to abortion, the morality of drinking alone, hating a sports team, and being rude to cold callers, the essays will make you think again about the judgments we make on a daily basis and the ways in which we choose to conduct our lives. Philosophers Take On the World is based on the blog run by the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, one of the world''s leading centres for applied ethics.Trade ReviewPhilosophers Take on the World paves the way for people to become independent thinkers, more mindful of the philosophical implications that lurk behind all corners of our lives. * Anna Zanetti, The Oxford Culture Review *I'm now a convert. * Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald *Table of ContentsCrime and Punishment 1: Anders Herlitz: Time to Reconsider the Penal Code? 2: Rebecca Roache: Enhanced Punishment 3: Brian D. Earp: Degrees of Sexual HarmTerrorism, Guns, and War 4: Jeff McMahan: A Challenge to Gun Rights 5: Allen Buchanan, Lance K. Stell: McMahan's Hazardous (and Irrelevant) Thought Experiment 6: Seth Lazar: Travel, Friends, and Killing 7: Roger Crisp: The Courageous Suicide Bomber? 8: Owen Schaefer: Chemical Weapons: In Defence of Double Standards 9: Cécile Fabre: Looted Artworks: A Portrait of JusticeHealth and Medicine 10: Steve Clarke: Homeopathy: An Undiluted Proposal 11: Lachlan de Crespigny and Julian Savulescu: Five Minutes Too Late 12: Tom Douglas: Taking Drugs to Help Others 13: Charles Foster: My Son's Dyslexic And I'm Glad 14: Janet Radcliffe Richards: The Point of Death 15: Lynn Gillam: Is it Ethical to use Data from Nazi Medical Experiments? 16: Jonathan Pugh: Financial Incentives, Coercion, and Psychosis 17: Julian Savulescu: Mr Nicklinson and the Right To DieDrugs and Organs 18: Dominic Wilkinson: In Praise of Organ-ised sport 19: Janet Radcliffe Richards: Do We Own Our Bodies? 20: Katrien Devolder: Psychiatric Drugs and Religious NormsReligion and Charity 21: Tony Coady: Catholic Identity and Strong Dissent - How Compatible? 22: William MacAskill: Banking: The Ethical Career Choice? 23: Charles Foster: On Rebuilding Noah's Ark and Drinking Old Burgundy 24: Simon Rippon: Should Conservative Christians be Allowed to Foster Children?Sex, Sex-equality and Sexuality 25: Brian D. Earp: Can You Be Gay By Choice? 26: Brian D. Earp: Prostitution and Disability 27: Chris Gyngell: Artificial Wombs and a visit to Birland 28: Rebecca Roache: Is Unwanted Pregnancy A Medical Disorder? 29: Simon Rippon: Is Half An Abortion Worse than a Whole One? 30: Dominic Wilkinson: Nick-less? 31: Kyle T. Edwards: Paedophilia and Predisposition 32: Ole Martin Moen: Checking People Out 33: David Edmonds: Female Philosophers and Sexual Harassment 34: Hilary Greaves: An Unfortunate State of AffairsSport 35: Joshua Shepherd: The Morality of Sport Hatred 36: Julian Savulescu: Doping: When Will We Learn? 37: David Edmonds: Tennis and SexBrains 38: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong: My Brain Made Me Do It - So What? 39: Simon Rippon: My Client's Brain is to Blame 40: Regina Rini: Mapping Brains and Finding DirectionLanguage, Speech and Freedom 41: Peter Singer: Countering Islam extremism 42: Neil Levy: Disabling Language 43: Kei Hiruta: Stop Orientalism? 44: Roger Crisp: The Naked Truth 45: Kyle T. Edwards: Porn, Condoms, and Liberty 46: Jim A.C. Everett: Should Men Be Allowed to Discuss Abortion?Evil, Disgust, Shame, Rudeness, and Joy 47: Regina Rini: A Reflection on Confronting Evil 48: Andreas Kappes: Shame about the Internet 49: Rebecca Roache and Hannah Maslen: In Defence of Drinking Alone 50: David Edmonds: Lady Thatcher is Dead: Pop Open The Champagne 51: Anders Sandberg: Steamy Calamari and Trans-species Eroticism 52: Anders Sandberg: Nothing is like Mother's Ice Cream 53: Hannah Maslen: Rudeness and Cold CallersAnimals 54: Christine Korsgaard: Treated Like Animals 55: Russell Powell: What is a Pet Worth? 56: Michelle Hutchinson: The Best Idea You've Heard All YearThe Future and its People 57: Stuart Armstrong: Enlightened Surveillance 58: James Williams: Why It's OK to Block Ads 59: Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh: Would You Hand Over A Decision To Machines? 60: Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Julian Savulescu: Should We Be Erasing Memories 61: Theron Plummer: Adding Happy People 62: Guy Kahane: The Pregnant Man and Other Conceptual Surprises
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Oxford University Press, USA OXF STUD NORMATIVE ETHICS V8 OSNE P Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics
Book SynopsisOSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors Mark Timmons: Introduction 1: Talbot Brewer: Acknowledging Others 2: Dale Dorsey: The Focus of Interpersonal Morality 3: Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Selves and the Good 4: Patricio Fernandez: The Good Will be First 5: Eric Wiland: Moral Advice and Joint Agency 6: Julie Tannenbaum: Responsibility without Wrongdoing or Blame 7: Grant Rozeboom: The Anti-Inflammatory Basis of Equality 8: Guy Fletcher: Needing and Necessity 9: Samantha Brennan: The Sources of Thresholds for Options 10: Chelsea Rosenthal: Why Desperate Times (But Only Desperate Times) Call for Consequentialism 11: Alex Worsnip: Eliminating Prudential Reasons 12: Ben Bramble: Evaluative Beliefs First 13: Roy Sorensen: The Stoic Silencing in Insults: How to Sabotage Wrongful Speech Index
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Oxford University Press Whats Wrong with Stereotyping
Book SynopsisWhat''s Wrong with Stereotyping? offers a refreshing and accessibly written philosophical take on the ethics of stereotyping. Stereotyping is woven into every aspect of human experience: conversation, psychology, algorithmic systems, and culture. It relates to generalization and induction, core aspects of rationality. But when and why it is morally wrong to stereotype? This book tackles this deep and enduring puzzle. To solve it, Erin Beeghly delves into the relationship between stereotyping and another phenomenon, discrimination. Not only does stereotyping cause discriminatory treatment, she argues, stereotyping can itself be discriminatory. This insight-that to stereotype is to discriminate-enables a novel philosophical methodology, which builds towards a theory of wrongful stereotyping by analyzing the lived experiences of marginalized groups and existing theories of wrongful discrimination. Core chapters evaluate important ethical wrongs: the failure to treat persons as individuals, disrespect, harm, prejudice, threats to freedoms, and the failure to treat persons as equals. One finds that there is no essence of wrongful stereotyping, a single property or set of properties that all problematic cases share in common. Nor are the wrongs of stereotyping reducible to an elegant number, two or three. Instead, wrongful stereotyping is a messy normative kind characterized by clusters of wrong-making properties, including all the ones noted here (and perhaps more). Readers will come away with a radically pluralistic, open-ended theory of wrongful stereotyping that they can use to identify wrongful stereotyping in their own lives and our contemporary world. Filled with thought-provoking examples and models for social change, this book emphasizes the messiness of moral reality and the importance of looking to the past in order to understand the ethical perils of stereotyping.
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Oxford University Press Spying Through a Glass Darkly
Book SynopsisCécile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. In a book rich with historical examples she argues that spying is only justified to protect against ongoing violations of fundamental rights. Blackmail, bribery, mass surveillance, cyberespionage, treason, and other nefarious activities are considered.Trade ReviewCécile Fabre's latest book further demonstrates that she is among the most insightful and prolific thinkers working on the ethics of foreign policy. Here she expands her reach by turning to an underaddressed issue in political theory and applied ethics: the morality of espionage. * Saba Bazargan-Forward, University of California San Diego, Ethics *Very little has been written on the ethics of espionage, and this text begins to fill the gap. * K. Buterbaugh, Southern Connecticut State University, CHOICE *Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence is a comprehensive and forensic survey of espionage practices and the necessary evils sometimes carried out by their exponents. It would be of particular interest to philosophers, legal theorists and military historians. * Graham Elliott, Philosophy Now *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Building Blocks 2: Political Secrets 3: Acquiring Secrets: A Defence of Espionage 4: Economic Espionage 5: Deception 6: Treason 7: Recruitment 8: The Technology of Espionage and Counterintelligence 9: Mass Surveillance Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Independence for Children
Book SynopsisIndependence for Children presents an alternative conception of parenting to those that have dominated our thinking about children and the family to date. It offers an elaboration and defence of anti-perfectionist parenting. The central argument of this book is that, as they develop, children become entitled to adopt and pursue their own conceptions of religion and human well-being. As young children, they are entitled to an upbringing that is informed by ideals and reasons they can later accept in the light of the religious or ethical values they go on to hold as adults. In short, parents and others owe children an upbringing from which they are not alienated later in life. Parental anti-perfectionism suggests that parents should introduce their children to the various and sometimes competing views concerning our place in the universe and human flourishing and raise them to be respectful of the diversity of lifestyles within society. But Matthew Clayton argues that parents have no right to steer their children towards particular religious doctrines or conceptions of human flourishing, and that religious schools ought to be phased out. This book addresses several questions in the philosophy of upbringing, such as how we ought to understand the interests of children, the moral claims of parents, and what constitutes a valuable family life. Clayton finishes by briefly exploring the implications of anti-perfectionist morality for how parents ought to approach issues concerning work, consumption, gender, and food.
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Oxford University Press Sparing Civilians
Book SynopsisKilling civilians is worse than killing soldiers. If any moral principle commands near universal assent, this one does. It is written into every major historical and religious tradition that has addressed armed conflict. It is uncompromisingly inscribed in international law. It underpins and informs public discussion of conflictwe always ask first how many civilians died? And it guides political practice, at least in liberal democracies, both in how we fight our wars and in which wars we fight. Few moral principles have been more widely and more viscerally affirmed than this one. And yet, in recent years it has faced a rising tide of dissent. Political and military leaders seeking to slip the constraints of the laws of war have cavilled and qualified. Their complaints have been unwittingly aided by philosophers who, rebuilding just war theory from its foundations, have concluded that this principle is at best a useful fiction. Sparing Civilians aims to turn this tide, and to vindicate Trade ReviewThis is a hugely important book that will shape the debate on civilian immunity for years to come. * David Rodin, Australasian Journal of Philosophy *This book will make a difference in the future of just war theory. It is an important challenge to the basic assumptions of the leading contemporary just war theorists, and it is an indictment against their starting points. It is well written and its readability is enhanced by its avoidance of the technical language of most contemporary discussions of just war theory. The author can avoid technical and specialist language because his challenge is at a primitive level, factually and maybe logically prior to the level of most contemporary work in the field. Moreover, this book is innovative concerning how to do applied ethics more generally. Everyone in ethics will be interested in the author's discussions. * Peter Tramel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of Contents1: Killing Civilians Is Worse than Killing Soldiers 2: Necessity 3: Opportunistic and Eliminative Killing 4: Risky Killing 5: Vulnerability and Defencelessness 6: Combat Non-immunity Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Conversations in Philosophy Law and Politics
Book SynopsisNew Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. It showcases three generations of scholars--from newly minted professors to some of today''s most distinguished thinkers. Consisting of fifteen conversations, pairs of chapters dedicated to a single topic, the volume provides intergenerational and multidisciplinary perspectives on aspects of our social world. Each conversation comprises a first paper by a scholar who sets the topic, followed by a second paper by a scholar of a different generation, and usually a different discipline, who offers further insight or commentary. Each conversation thus provides two sets of original thoughts about a matter of lively current interest and interdisciplinary significance. Topics investigated include moral revolutions, AI and democracy, trust and the rule of law, responsibility, praise and blame, reasonableness, duty, political obligation, justice and equality, justice and intersectionality, domination, pornography, intentions in the law, and legal argumentation. Written in clear prose, the volume is accessible by philosophers, lawyers, political theorists, and beyond.
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Oxford University Press Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy
Book SynopsisPublic health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we are able to lead. Putting public health first would allow improvements to the health of everyone, especially the worst off. Yet many citizens actively oppose state interference to improve population health, complaining that it encroaches on personal liberty. How should policymakers reconcile these conflicting priorities?This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public policy. Novel, theoretically rigorous, yet practical, Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy examines why it is so common for public policies to fail in practice to improve the problems they aim to solve, and what to do about this. It argues that a shift to complex systems approaches to policymaking is overdue. Philosophers need to become much more attuned to the contingency and messiness of real-world policymaking, and to the ways in which philosophical tools such as thought experiments are frequently unreliable.The book also provides an ethical framework for public health policy. It argues that public health is a right of citizens, alongside more familiar rights such as liberty and security. Public health should not be thought of merely as interference with the rights that individuals have, but as necessary to protect these rights. Chapters explore implications for resource allocation, personal responsibility, health equity, and the control of communicable disease.Trade ReviewJames Wilson's clear and tightly argued new book, Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State, endeavors to carve out a space for a pragmatic, practice oriented philosophy in the world of public health policy making...I would recommend the book to those who are curious about methodology in normative ethics and about how to make scholarly endeavors more readily applicable to tough political and policy problems. * Kathryn MacKay, University of Sydney, Ethics *an important, well-argued, and well-written book… Agree with him or not that there is a right to public health, and that we need to evolve our methods and methodology of reasoning in applied political philosophy, this book will keep you thinking about the ideas presented therein long after you've finished it. I'm confident that Wilson's book will become a touchstone in public health ethics for years to come. * Diego Silva, Public Health Ethics *
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Oxford University Press Human Motives
Book SynopsisMotivational hedonism (often called psychological hedonism) claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure (in the widest sense) and to avoid pain and displeasure (again, in the widest sense). Although perennially attractive, many philosophers and experimental psychologists have claimed to refute it. Human Motives shows how decision-science and the recent science of affect can be used to construct a form of motivational hedonism that evades all previous critiques. On this view, we take decisions by anticipating and responding affectively to the alternatives, with the pleasure / displeasure component of affect constituting the common currency of decision-making. But we do not have to believe that the alternatives will bring us pleasure or displeasure in the future. Rather, those feelings get bound into and become parts of the future-directed representation of the options, rendering the latter attractive or repulsive. Much then depends on what pleasure and displeasure reallyTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: The science of affect 3: The new hedonism 4: Traditional critiques critiqued 5: Feelings versus representations of value 6: Indicatives versus imperatives 7: Pain: A test case 8: Moral motivation References
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Oxford University Press Being Good in a World of Need
Book SynopsisIn a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-off respond to the world''s needy?This is the urgent central question of Being Good in a World of Need. Larry S. Temkin, one of the world''s foremost ethicists, challenges common assumptions about philanthropy, his own prior beliefs, and the dominant philosophical positions of Peter Singer and Effective Altruism. Filled with keen analysis and insightful discussions of philosophy, current events, development economics, history, literature, and age-old wisdom, this book is a thorough and sobering exploration of the complicated ways that global aid may incentivize disastrous policies, reward corruption, and foster brain drains that hinder social and economic development.Using real-world examples and illuminating thought experiments, Temkin discusses ethical imperialism, humanitarian versus developmental aid, how charities ignore or coverup negative impacts, replicability and scaling-up proble
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Oxford University Press Theories of Justice and Rights
Book SynopsisJohn Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues concerning justice. In a series of writings, Mackie built a case for a unique right-based approach to political philosophy, in part by delivering incisive critiques of theories dominant at the time. His most comprehensive work in this area is Theories of Justice and Rights--a previously unpublished manuscript that finally sees the light of day in this volume. Also included are two of Mackie''s previously published papers, written during the same period: ''Can There Be a Right-Based Moral Theory?'' (1978) and ''Rights, Utility, and External Costs'' (1985). Some of Mackie''s arguments in these works draw on the metaethical conclusions in his seminal book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977). The editorial introduction canvasses
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Oxford University Press, USA Justice in a Globalized World A Normative
Book SynopsisAre wealthy countries' duties towards developing countries grounded in justice or in weaker concerns of charity? Justice in a Globalized World offers both an in-depth critique of the most prominent philosophical answers to this question, and a distinctive approach for addressing it.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Problem of Global Justice ; PART I: COSMOPOLITANISM ; 2. Assessing the Cosmopolitan Ideal ; 3. Justifying Cosmopolitanism ; PART II: STATISM ; 4. Assessing the Statist Ideal ; 5. Justifying Statism ; PART III: A NORMATIVE FRAMEWORK ; 6. The Function of Justice ; 7. The Content of Justice ; 8. The Scope of Justice ; 9. Conclusion ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Ethics of Capital Punishment
Book SynopsisDebate has long been waged over the morality of capital punishment, with standard arguments in its favour being marshalled against familiar arguments that oppose the practice. In The Ethics of Capital Punishment, Matthew Kramer takes a fresh look at the philosophical arguments on which the legitimacy of the death penalty stands or falls, and he develops a novel justification of that penalty for a limited range of cases.The book pursues both a project of critical debunking of the familiar rationales for capital punishment and a project of partial vindication. The critical part presents some accessible and engaging critiques of major arguments that have been offered in support of the death penalty. These chapters, suitable for use in teaching courses on capital punishment, valuably take issue with positions at the heart of contemporary debates over the morality of such punishment.The book then presents an original justification for executing truly terrible criminals, a justification thatTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Hannah Arendt ends Eichmann in Jerusalem with a statement about the sentencing of Adolf Eichmann: "we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you." Kramer's excellent new book develops an original line of argument that echoes that Arendtian sentiment into what he calls the purgative justification for capital punishment....Kramer's book is a well-argued and inventive work that will generate new avenues of discussion in legal and moral philosophy * Eric M. Rovie, Political Studies Review *Matthew Kramer's book The Ethics of Capital Punishment is a significant achievement. Not only does it offer a thorough and up-to-date discussion of traditional justifications for the death penalty, it also attempts to offer an alternative, novel justification for it, something that Kramer calls the purgative rationale. Although I am not entirely sympathetic to this aim, I think that carving out a new territory within this already crowded intellectual space is something which ought to be commended * John Danaher, Criminal Law and Philosophy *The book's provocative thesis, connecting moral philosophy with legal scholarship, will surely occupy a position of importance in ongoing debates within criminal law * Harvard Law Review *In this bold philosophical inquiry, Professor Matthew Kramer develops a justification for the death penalty as a sui generis concept: the purgative rationale. After grappling with and rebutting the standard justifications for capital punishment deterrence, retributivism, incapacitation, and denunciation Professor Kramer develops the purgative rationale, arguing that a community is tainted in other words, its moral integrity is lessened by the continuing existence of anyone who has perpetrated some especially hideous crimes * Harvard Law Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Deterrence through Capital Punishment ; 3. Death and Retribution ; 4. Death as Incapacitation ; 5. Death as a Means of Denunciation ; 6. The Purgative Rationale for Capital Punishment ; 7. The Death Penalty in Operation
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Oxford University Press The Healing Virtues
Book SynopsisThe Healing Virtues explores the intersection of psychotherapy and virtue ethics - with an emphasis on the patient''s role within a healing process. It considers how the common ground between the therapeutic process and the cultivation of virtues can inform the efforts of both therapist and patient. The ethics of psychotherapy revolve partly around what therapists should or should not do as well as the sort of person that therapists should be: e.g., empathic, prudent, compassionate, respectful, and trustworthy. Contemporary practitioners have argued for therapist virtues that are relevant to assisting the patient''s efforts in a healing process. But the ethics of a therapeutic dialogue can also revolve around the sort of person the patient should be. Within this book, Duff R. Waring argues that there is a case for patient virtues that are relevant to dealing with the problems in living that arise in psychotherapy, e.g., honesty, courage, humility, perseverance. The central idea is thatTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Psychotherapy and the moderate skeptic's challenge 3: Epistemic virtues in psychotherapy and the moderate skeptic's challenge 4: Reparative ethics: the nexus between mental health and moral virtue 5: Psychotherapy and the virtuous patient 6: The responsibilities of patients in a psychotherapeutic healing project 7: Four psychotherapoes and the triadic analysis 8: Caveats, summations, and stones left unturned
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Oxford University Press Responsibility for Justice
Book SynopsisWhen the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. In her long-awaited Responsibility for Justice, Young discusses our responsibilities to address structural injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the social connection model. She develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structuralTrade ReviewYoung is wonderful at painting the picture for why we should concern oursleves with structural injustice. * Yolanda Y. Wilson, Mind *Table of ContentsForeword ; Martha C. Nussbaum ; 1. From Personal to Political Responsibility ; 2. Structure as the Subject of Justice ; 3. Guilt versus Responsibility: ; A Reading and Partial Critique of Hannah Arendt ; 4. A Social Connection Model ; 5. Responsibility Across Borders ; 6. Avoiding Responsibility ; 7. Responsibility and Historic Injustice ; Index
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University of Chicago Press Speaking Respect Respecting Speech
Book SynopsisIntense passions are aroused by hurtful speech. In this study Richard Abel offers an original framework for understanding and attempting to resolve these conflicts and seeks to expose the inadequacies of the conventional responses to speech.
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The University of Chicago Press Deconstructing Dignity A Critique of the
Book SynopsisOffers a powerful way of thinking about it philosophically. Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, this title employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate.Trade Review"Deconstructing Dignity is an excellent book. It is well conceived and wonderfully executed. It not only intervenes in this particular debate on the right to die but takes up important and long-standing concepts and problems in the history of philosophy and culture; it dismantles vapid truisms and opens onto the possibility of a thought of life-and death-that is not always already lost within life's supposed dignity and sanctity." (David E. Johnson, University at Buffalo, SUNY)"
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University of Chicago Press The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan Volume
Book SynopsisAddressing issues in the philosophy of action and moral theory, this volume features papers on Kant, von Wright, Sellars and Chisholm. It also covers questions in applied ethics - such as the morality of Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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The University of Chicago Press Animals Best Friends
Book SynopsisWarmly written and scientifically informed, Animals' Best Friends is the invitation we all need to improve the lives of nonhuman animals among usand thereby improve our own.Trade Review"Our relation with animals is fraught with conflicting emotions. We like to eat some, seek to eradicate others, yet adore and spoil our pets like family members. King describes her own moral dilemmas and the personal solutions she has found, always with love and respect shining through. This book will help its readers articulate their own attitudes."--Frans de Waal, author of Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves "A stunning and deeply beautiful accomplishment. Required reading for anyone who wants to better understand the complexities and contradictions of our interactions with animals. And for anyone who wants to have a deeper and more useful relationship with the natural world. I learned a lot reading it. An instant classic."--Jeff VanderMeer, author of the New York Times-bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy "Even as we struggle to be compassionate, it's difficult to live in the world without hurting animals. What's an animal lover to do? This question is at the heart of this important book by King, whose writing, thinking, and teaching about the minds and feelings of animals, and our responsibilities to them, is justly celebrated. Happily, there are many ways to help, from the kitchen to the ballot box. And helping animals is not all-or-nothing. Crucially, King points out ways we can help with great compassion not only for the animals, but also for the people making sometimes difficult choices. Animals' Best Friends will be a guiding light not only to philosophers and ethicists, but also to caring people everywhere who hope to bring the power of human empathy to the choices we make that affect animals' lives."--Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness "Animals' Best Friends is a wonderful book: beautifully written, deeply moving, and fascinating throughout. The stories and research that King tells about the wonders of animal life enable the reader to share in her own enduring sense of hope: Not just for animals in captivity and in the wild, but through and with them, for our own species as well."--Stuart Shanker, author Reframed: Self-Reg for a Just Society and Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life
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The University of Chicago Press Logic Sin in the Writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Book SynopsisPhilip R. Shields shows that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language, and that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is both a logical and an ethical demand. Rather than merely saying specific things about theology and religion, major texts from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations express their fundamentally religious nature by showing that there are powers which bear down upon and sustain us. Shields finds a religious view of the world at the very heart of Wittgenstein's philosophy. Shields argues that the appearance throughout Wittgenstein's writings of such concepts as ritual, limit, transgression, a change of will, pride, temptation, and judgment implies a relation between religion and the logical aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy.--Choice Of the many recent books about Wittgenstein, Logic and Sin is one of the very few that are well worth having--Fergus Kerr, Modern Theology What Shields hasTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1: Logic and Sin: An Introduction 2: The Limit 3: The Fearful Judge 4: The Specter of Sin 5: Writing to the Glory of God Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Logic and Sin in the Writings of Ludwig
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that ethical and religious concerns inform even the most technical writings on logic and language. This text also shows that, for Wittgenstein, the need to establish clear limitations is both a logical and an ethical demand, revealing a religious view of the world in his philosophy.
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The University of Chicago Press Theory as Practice Ethical Inquiry in the
Book SynopsisThere is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readersas interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work. Struever argues that the accomplishment of five major Renaissance figuresPetrarch, Nicolaus Cusanus, Lorenzo Valla, Machiavelli, and Montaignewas to consider theory as practice and thus engage the ethics of inquiry. She notes three stages of investigation, the first represented by Petrarch, who relocated ethical inquiry from a theoretical realm to a familiar practice responsive to daily experience. Next, Struever describes how Cusanus and Valla assume Petrarch's relocation, yet confect ethics into discursive disciplines. Finally, while both Machiavelli and Montaigne produced strong revisions of discipline, they considered the problems o
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The University of Chicago Press A Decent Life
Book SynopsisTrade Review"While no one would confuse it for light reading, May’s style is conversational, frequently funny and overall, he comes across as a very, shall we say, decent guy. May’s book is not prescriptive but is actually something better: a meditation on how striving for decency is a route towards personal satisfaction and happiness, even in a world that may seem to disadvantage the decent. . . . The book acknowledges the complexity of human beings and the world at large and offers a way of thinking about those complexities without falling into the dreaded trap of 'moral relativism.' Put simply, I am a better person for having read this book." -- John Warner * Chicago Tribune *"Most of us are not 'moral monsters,' argues May; nor do we 'strive to be moral saints.' The different schools of traditional moral philosophy put the stress on intentions, consequences of 'virtue ethics,' yet none is very useful for the vast majority of people who want to be decent without aspiring to total altruism. A Decent Life explores what this might mean in practice with regard to our relationships with family and friends; the strangers we run into; nonhuman animals; and the political sphere. It concludes with Nine Rules for Moral Decency, including 'Enjoy reading philosophy, even when it advises you to be better than you can reasonably be.'" * Times Higher Education *"May has a knack for presenting philosophical concepts in ways that are easily graspable, and his advice for living 'a life with a goal more modest than altruism, but better than moral mediocrity' makes such a goal seem attainable for a wide audience. Anyone interested in living a more morally conscious life will want to give this wise guide a look." * Publishers Weekly *"In the face of great injustice or radical indecency, it is tempting to give up our moral lives altogether. The challenges of being good seem impossibly daunting. Todd May has given us just a little bit of hope--a few practical suggestions for becoming just a little bit more decent. A Decent Life is the kind of book I will give to my students--or to my daughter: a humble, down-to-earth primer for living ethically in a world that seems intent on destroying itself. May has written a more-than-decent book. It is genuinely good." -- John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are"Some philosophers have argued that morality requires us repeatedly to sacrifice our wealth and pleasure for the sake of others, including distant strangers and even animals. Recognizing that most people believe otherwise and are unwilling to live this way, Todd May offers an alternative, more realistic vision of the moral life that is neither saintly nor heroic but nonetheless decent. In writing that is lucid and enlivened by stories drawn from his own and other people's experiences, he reveals how, by showing appropriate respect for the fact that others (including animals) have lives of their own to live, we can satisfy the demands of morality while retaining our ability to have fulfilling and meaningful lives. Particularly in its discussion of our relations with political opponents, this book is a timely, illuminating, and inspiring work of moral philosophy." -- Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford"Moral philosophy often appears either as a very technical discipline or as a set of demands to be altruistic that few if any of us can realize. In this book, Todd May articulates the extremely appealing idea of a decent life as an alternative. He writes with the clarity of an analytical philosopher, but about existential themes that are usually addressed by continental thinkers. The book is almost completely without technical language, full of thought-provoking examples from everyday life, and it will be an edifying read for everyone who aspires to be a decent human being." -- Svend Brinkman, author of Standpoints: Ten Old Ideas in a New WorldTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Altruism or Decency? Chapter 2 Decency toward Those around Us Chapter 3 Widening the Circle: More Distant Others Chapter 4 Widening the Circle: Nonhuman Animals Chapter 5 Politics and Decency Conclusion Our Stories and Our Values Nine Rules for Moral Decency That Should Be Followed Strictly and without Exception Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Perjury and Pardon Volume II
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword to the English Edition General Introduction to the French Edition Editors’ Note Translator’s Note First Session Second Session Third Session Fourth Session Fifth Session Appendix 1—Discussion Session Sixth Session Appendix 2 Seventh Session Appendix 3—Discussion Session Eighth Session Index of Proper Names
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James Clarke & Co Ltd A Matter of Choice
Book SynopsisA Matter of Choice represents a substantive discussion of the concept of choice in human affairs, taken against the backdrop of ethics and religion. Drawing on a range of contributions, Hodgkiss demonstrates in this study that, though often not the primary issue under consideration, a concern with choice has featured continually in human thought from the Hellenistic world of the Stoics to the post-Kantian environment of modern philosophy. Moreover, he argues that the social and historical dimension of choice has been consistently underplayed, and that the role of choice in modern economic and political developments is underestimated at our peril. Through a critical account of the literature, Hodgkiss adeptly diagnoses the insufficiency of the current conception of the choice-making sovereign individual in the contemporary liberal-democratic capitalist context and outlines the implications of this philosophy for the choice-maker.Trade ReviewA Matter of Choice represents an exciting contribution to the current debates on the neo-liberal cornering of 'choice' in human affairs. From Hellenistic philosophy to contemporary sociology, Hodgkiss charts the emergence of choice, free will and human agency in contrast to the determinism of God's will and then economism. The book is a must for students and the lay reader interested in unpacking the current 'choice' mantra. Tom Cockburn, Professor of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University How to understand the idea of choice, and its relation alongside others such as fate, will, deliberation, and causality, has long exercised the greatest human minds. In teasing out and evaluating the teachings about choice from a galaxy of philosophers and sociologists, Hodgkiss has produced a lively, engaging and penetrating book that is philosophically, sociologically, and historically literate. Lloyd Strickland, Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction - Following the Progress of the Stars 2. Divine Determination - Having No Choice in the Matter 3. Recognising the Necessity of Choice - the Philosophical Back Story 4. Being Determined to Be Free - the Perplexing Legacy of Kant 5. 'Choice' Becoming 'Action' in Post-Kantian Social Thought 6. Making Choices Actively Make Sense - More Recent Interpretations in Philosophy 7. The Theorisation of Choice in Twentieth-Century Sociology 8. Capturing the Hostage to Fortune 9. Liberal Democracy - the Prime Real Estate of Choice 10. Conclusion - Being Spoilt for Choice Notes Bibliography Index
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