Research Catalog

Title

New waves in ethics / edited by Thom Brooks.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Brooks, Thom.

Description

x, 298 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.

Series Statement

New waves in philosophy

Uniform Title

New waves in philosophy.

Subject

• Ethics
• Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Conflict, regret, and modern moral philosophy / Leonard Kahn -- What did the British idealists ever do for us? / Thom Brooks -- Choosing well: value pluralism and patterns of choice / Chrisoula Andreou -- How not to argue for motivational internalism / Danielle Bromwich -- Egalitarianism and prioritarianism / Iwao Hirose -- Bias and reasoning: Haidt's theory of moral judgment / S. Matthew Liao -- Dehumanization / Mari Mikkola -- Guilt, embarrassment, and the existence of character traits / Christian Miller -- Letting die by contract / Gerhard Øverland -- Knowing their own good: preferences and liberty in global ethics / Lisa Fuller -- Making free trade fair / Nicole Hassoun -- Taking the broader view: the public interest, deliberative democracy and political ethics / Ian O'Flynn -- Climate change and public moral reasoning / Jonathan Webber.

ISBN

• 9780230232754 (hardback)
• 0230232752 (hardback)
• 9780230232761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0230232760 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011011729

OCLC

715284544

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library