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  • Killing in War

    by Jeff McMahan ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Killing

    Problems at the Margins of Life

    by Jeff McMahan ...
    Series series Oxford Ethics Series
    This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Killing in War

    by Jeff McMahan ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Derek Parfit: His Life and Thought

    Edited by Jeff McMahan ...
    At the time of his death in January 2017, Derek Parfit was widely regarded among philosophers as the best and most important moral philosopher in well over a century. He was also both legendarily eccentric and legendarily generous. In his later years he became increasingly reclusive in his obsessive struggle to develop his ideas and arguments about an extensive set of philosophical problems before ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Ethics and Existence

    The Legacy of Derek Parfit

    Edited by Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, Ketan Ramakrishnan ...
    Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the best moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty new essays in this book were written in his honour and have all been inspired by his work--in particular, his work in an area of moral philosophy known as 'population ethics', which is concerned with moral issues raised by causing people to exist. Until Parfit began writing ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Principles and Persons

    The Legacy of Derek Parfit

    Edited by Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, Ketan Ramakrishnan ...
    Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the most significant moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty-one new essays in this book have all been inspired by his work. They address issues with which he was concerned in his writing, particularly in his seminal contribution to moral philosophy, Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984). Rather than simply commenting on his ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Ethics and Humanity

    Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover

    Edited by N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen, Jeff McMahan ...
    Ethics and Humanity pays to tribute to Jonathan Glover, a pioneering figure whose thought and personal influence have had a significant impact on applied philosophy. In topics that include genetic engineering, abortion, euthanasia, war, and moral responsibility, Glover has made seminal contributions. The papers collected here, written by some of the most distinguished contemporary moral ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Saving People from the Harm of Death

    Edited by Espen Gamlund, Carl Tollef Solberg ...
    Series series Population-Level Bioethics
    Death is something we mourn or fear as the worst thing that could happen--whether the deaths of close ones, the deaths of strangers in reported accidents or tragedies, or our own. And yet, being dead is something that no one can experience and live to describe. This simple truth raises a host of difficult philosophical questions about the negativity surrounding our sense of death, and how and for ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • The Moral Rights of Animals

    by Jeremy Garrett, Nathan Nobis, Anne Baril, Aaron Simmons, Molly Gardner, Evelyn Pluhar, Ramona Ilea, Robert Bass, Jason Hanna, Gary Lynn Comstock0, Scott D. Wilson1, Mylan Engel Jr.3, Tom Regan4, Alastair Norcross5, Jeff McMahan6 ...
    Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Rawls

    A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice

    by Robert Paul Wolff ...
    Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has been the subject of a lively debate among philosophers, economists, and political scientists. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff provides an interpretation and critique of Rawls’ theory that both clarifies it and reveals its basic flaws.According to Professor Wolff, Rawls’ device of a bargaining game among self-interested parties is ... Read more

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  • Socializing Metaphysics

    The Nature of Social Reality

    by Frederick F. Schmitt, Gary Ebbs, Margaret Gilbert, Sally Haslanger, Kevin Kimble, Ron Mallon, Seumas Miller, Philip Pettit, Abraham Sesshu Roth, John Searle, Raimo Tuomela, Edward Witherspoon ...
    Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies. Grasping the implications of that fact starts with understanding social metaphysics. Social metaphysics provides a foundation for social theory, as well as for social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics, and political philosophy. This volume will interest anyone ... Read more

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