Studies in Ethics
Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality
1st Edition
By Troy A. Jollimore
September 27, 2018
First Published in 2001. Morality is viewed as a demanding and unsympathetic taskmaster, and as an external, foreign, even alien force. The moral life, on such a view, is a labor not of love, but of duty. One of the guiding intuitions of this book is that this picture of morality is deeply and ...
The Bounds of Choice: Unchosen Virtues, Unchosen Commitments
1st Edition
By Talbot Brewer
October 11, 2016
Presents a sustained and original challenge to the orthodox understanding of the relationship between morality and voluntary choice. The two main theses of the book are that we can be morally responsible for aspects of our character that we have not chosen or otherwise authored, and that we can ...
The Metaphysics of the Moral Law: Kant's Deduction of Freedom
1st Edition
By Carol W. Voeller
June 17, 2016
This work offers a new understanding of Kant on the freedom of the will. Voeller looks in detail at the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason against the background of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole....
Consensualism in Principle: On the Foundations of Non-Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
1st Edition
By Rahul Kumar
May 13, 2016
This book presents and argues for a suitably articulated version of consensualism as a form of Kantian moral theory with an ability to powerfully illuminate the moral intuitions to which Kantian and utilitarian theories have traditionally appealed....
Learning and Coordination: Inductive Deliberation, Equilibrium and Convention
1st Edition
By Peter Vanderschraaf
May 13, 2016
Vanderschraaf develops a new theory of game theory equilibrium selection in this book. The new theory defends general correlated equilibrium concepts and suggests a new analysis of convention....
Making Comparisons Count
1st Edition
By Ruth Chang
November 24, 2015
This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer...
Moral Self-Regard: Duties to Oneself in Kant's Moral Theory
1st Edition
By Lara Denis
May 21, 2015
Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory....
Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empircus
1st Edition
By Tad Brennan
December 10, 1999
This book defends the consistency, plausibility, and interest of the brand of Ancient Skepticism described in the writings of Sextus Empiricus (c. 150 AD), both through detailed exegesis of the original texts, and through sustained engagement with an array of modern critics....