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The Promise of Friendship

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.

The Emergence of Value

Argues that truth, moral right, political right, and aesthetic value may be understood as arising out of a naturalist account of humanity, if naturalism is rightly conceived.

Jewish Virtue Ethics

Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

Transforming One's Self

A fresh and rigorous interpretation of William James's ethical theory, showing how experimenting with life's opportunities can transform one's self and life.

The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou

By Li Zehou
Edited and translated by Robert A. Carleo III
Subjects: Asian Studies
Series: SUNY series, Translating China

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

Full Responsibility

Explores the basic forms of responsibility that we willingly assume and the collaborative fulfillment that we find in each.

The Shadow of Totalitarianism

Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Persons Emerging

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Under the Bed of Heaven

Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

One over Many

Corrective intervention in Plato's metaphysics replacing the standard view of Plato as a metaphysical dualist with a novel and revolutionary paradigm of unitary pluralism in a single reality built on ontological diversity.

Pragmatist Ethics

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life.

The Chinese Liberal Spirit

By Xu Fuguan
Edited and translated by David Elstein
Subjects: Asian Studies
Series: SUNY series, Translating China

The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.

A Dangerous Passion

Shows the importance of honor for leaders, both as a source of noble ambition to pursue the public good and as dangerous temptation to seek glory through domination.

D. G. Leahy and the Thinking Now Occurring

A critical introduction to the American philosopher D. G. Leahy (1937–2014), whose oeuvre sets forth a fundamental thinking in which change itself is revealed to be the very essence of reality and mind.

The Rorty-Habermas Debate

Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.

The Split Economy

Draws on philosophy, economics, theology, and psychoanalytic theory to reveal a fundamental dynamic of capitalism.

Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare

Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.

Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other

A provocative examination of the consequences of Levinas’s and Adorno’s thought for contemporary ethics and political philosophy.

Human Beings or Human Becomings?

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

Critique in German Philosophy

Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.

Epistemic Responsibility

By Lorraine Code
Subjects: Philosophy

Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.

Confucian Role Ethics

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Hyperthematics

Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.

Pragmatism Applied

Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.

Face to Face with Animals

Edited by Peter Atterton & Tamra Wright
Subjects: Philosophy

Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.

The Other in Perception

By Susan Bredlau
Subjects: Philosophy

Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.

Partial Truths and Our Common Future

Argues that a pluralistic understanding of truth can foster productive conversations about common concerns involving religion, science, ethics, politics, economics, and ecology without falling into relativism.

Germs of Death

An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.

Body/Self/Other

Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.

Essays on the Foundations of Ethics

By C. I. Lewis
Edited by John Lange
Subjects: Philosophy

Presentation of C. I. Lewis's final book, formulating a cognitivistic ethics.

International Disaster Management Ethics

Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.

The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many

Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.

The Tragedy of Philosophy

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.

Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World

By Glen A. Mazis
Subjects: Philosophy

Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.

Virtue in Being

A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.

Just War and Human Rights

Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.

Encounters with Godard

A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.

Out of Control

Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.

Religion among We the People

Explores democracy with religious freedom and its dependence on theism.

Lectures on the Theory of Ethics (1812)

Lectures from the late period of Fichte’s career, never before available in English.

Honor in Political and Moral Philosophy

Argues for revitalizing the place of honor in contemporary life.

Maternal Activism

Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.

Whose Tradition? Which Dao?

Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.

Between Levinas and Heidegger

Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.

Why Be Moral?

Explores the resources for contemporary ethics found in the work of the Cheng brothers, canonical neo-Confucian philophers.

Sexual Virtue

Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.

Lacan's Ethics and Nietzsche's Critique of Platonism

Brings Lacan and Nietzsche together as part of a common effort to rethink the tradition of Western ethics.

Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

Christianity without God

Argues that Christianity does not require its supernatural aspects.

Hans Jonas's Ethic of Responsibility

Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.

Moments of Disruption

By Kris Sealey
Subjects: Philosophy

Explores the ethical and political implications of Levinas’s and Sartre’s accounts of human existence.

Emplotting Virtue

A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.

On the Ethics of Torture

By Uwe Steinhoff
Subjects: Philosophy

A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.

The Thou of Nature

Explores the spiritual obligations of humans to animals from a religious naturalist’s perspective.

Issues in Military Ethics

By Martin L. Cook
Subjects: Philosophy

Reflections on, and analysis of, ethical issues facing military service in the United States.

Wonder and Generosity

A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.

Valuing Diversity

Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

Weak Thought

Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.

Tax Cheating

An examination of the ethical issues surrounding tax cheating and implications for public policy.

Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously

A consideration of Confucian ethics as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance.

Worth Doing

A comprehensive look at how we rely on ideals of worthy action in the pursuit of moral happiness.

Those Elegant Decorums

Analyzes the way in which Austen blends ironic criticism with moral affirmation through her complex and little-understood management of the narrative point of view.

The Examined Life--Chinese Perspectives

Edited by Xinyan Jiang
Introduction by Xinyan Jiang
Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville
Subjects: Philosophy

A collection of essays on Chinese ethical traditions, including Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist ethics.

Other Others

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Waging Humanitarian War

Examines the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of military intervention for humanitarian reasons.

Eros and Ethics

A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.

Biotechnology

Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.

Before the Voice of Reason

Provides a critique of reason, demanding that we take greater responsibility for nature and other people.

Living with Ambiguity

How a religion based on the sacredness of nature deals with the problem of evil.

Meditations of Global First Philosophy

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux.

The Ends of Solidarity

An in-depth look at the theory of solidarity of German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, serving also as a comprehensive introduction to his work.

Bearing Witness to Epiphany

Makes the novel argument that erotic life is the real sphere of human freedom.

Styles of Thought

By David Weissman
Subjects: Philosophy

Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.

Rachel Carson

Leading scholars explore the full range and current significance of Carson’s work.

The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation

By Robert E. Carter
Foreword by Eliot Deutsch
Subjects: Asian Studies

Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.

Nature's Edge

Leading environmental thinkers investigate the complexities of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of environmental problems.

The Cage

By David Weissman
Subjects: Philosophy

Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.

The Time of Life

Explores the notion of ēthos in Heidegger’s thought.

Torture

Argues that there are moral grounds to use torture where the lives of the innocent are at stake.

The Social Authority of Reason

Explores the social ramifications of Kant's concept of radical evil.

The Step Back

Explores the ethical and political possibilities of philosophy after deconstruction.

Lyrical and Ethical Subjects

A wide-ranging attempt to develop a theory of ethical life from a hermeneutic understanding of language.

Alain Badiou

An introduction to Badiou's philosophical thought and its implications for other humanistic disciplines and the social sciences.

With Respect for Nature

Explores how humans can take the lives of animals and plants while maintaining a proper respect both for ecosystems and for those who live in them.

The Impact of the Internet on Our Moral Lives

Edited by Robert J. Cavalier
Subjects: Philosophy

Leading theorists explore how the Internet impacts privacy issues, sensitivity to wrongdoing, and cultural and personal identity.

Leaving Us to Wonder

Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur.

Biological Anthropology and Ethics

The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing biological anthropologists today.

Reclaiming Narrative for Public Theology

Argues for American national narratives in Christian theology that respect the separation of church and state and a diverse, multifaith society.

The Twenty-first Century Confronts Its Gods

Maintains that the secular West has its gods—such as market capitalism—and that veneration of these contributes to the cultural and religious unrest of our time.

The Good Life

Explores how psychoanalysis can nurture and vitalize, rather than only focusing on affliction and neuroses.

The Ethics of Ontology

A novel rereading of the relationship between ethics and ontology in Aristotle.

The Moral Warrior

Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.

Friendship

Addresses the question of whether special preference for friends is morally justified.

Eco-Phenomenology

Explores how continental philosophy can inform environmental ethics.

Heidegger and Practical Philosophy

Leading scholars address the ethical and practical dimensions of Heidegger's thought.

Ricoeur as Another

Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.

Zarathustra's Love Beyond Wisdom

A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.

Living and Value

Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.

Unconscious Wisdom

By Dan Merkur
Subjects: Philosophy

Contra both Freud and Jung, argues that the unconscious is not exclusively irrational.

The Gift of Property

Explores the human propensity for owning and having.