Ethics
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
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.
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.
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.
Persons Emerging
Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.
The Chinese Liberal Spirit
The first English-language translation of an important figure in modern Confucian thought.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Critique in German Philosophy
Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present.
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.
Epistemic Responsibility
Develops a new kind of epistemological position that highlights virtue over more standard epistemological theories.
Hyperthematics
Presents a new and unique method for developing principles to be applied in creating and increasing value.
Face to Face with Animals
Explores Levinas’s approach to animal ethics from a range of perspectives.
Pragmatism Applied
Illustrates how William James’s philosophical pragmatism can help to resolve issues in everyday contemporary life.
The Other in Perception
Demonstrates the unique, pervasive, and overwhelmingly important role of other people within our lived experience.
Germs of Death
An analysis of Derrida’s early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.
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.
Body/Self/Other
Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.
Essays on the Foundations of Ethics
Presentation of C. I. Lewis's final book, formulating a cognitivistic ethics.
The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many
Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.
Virtue in Being
A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.
Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World
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.
The Tragedy of Philosophy
Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.
International Disaster Management Ethics
Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.
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.
Whose Tradition? Which Dao?
Considers the notable similarities between the thought of Confucius and Wittgenstein.
Maternal Activism
Demonstrates how individuals can respond to widespread injustice and systemic militarization in society.
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.
Between Levinas and Heidegger
Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy’s most pressing issues.
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.
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
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.
Wonder and Generosity
A compelling understanding of equality and difference in public life.
Issues in Military Ethics
Reflections on, and analysis of, ethical issues facing military service in the United States.
The Thou of Nature
Explores the spiritual obligations of humans to animals from a religious naturalist’s perspective.
On the Ethics of Torture
A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.
Valuing Diversity
Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.
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.
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
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. "
Eros and Ethics
A comprehensive examination of Lacan’s seminar on ethics.
Waging Humanitarian War
Examines the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of military intervention for humanitarian reasons.
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.
Bearing Witness to Epiphany
Makes the novel argument that erotic life is the real sphere of human freedom.
Styles of Thought
Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.
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.
The Japanese Arts and Self-Cultivation
Explores how spiritual values are learned and mind and body developed through the practice of the Japanese arts.
The Time of Life
Explores the notion of ēthos in Heidegger’s thought.
The Cage
Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.
Contemporary Italian Philosophy
Leading Italian philosophers engage issues in ethics, politics, and religion.
Rethinking the Just War Tradition
Contributors seek to promote reasoned debate about emerging security threats and potential military responses.
Etiquette
Brings etiquette into dialogue with ethics.
The Social Authority of Reason
Explores the social ramifications of Kant's concept of radical evil.
Biological Anthropology and Ethics
The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing biological anthropologists today.
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 Moral Warrior
Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.
Owning the Genome
A clear, introductory overview of the issues surrounding gene patenting.
Eco-Justice--The Unfinished Journey
Articles linking ecological sustainability and social justice.
Friendship
Addresses the question of whether special preference for friends is morally justified.
Corporeal Generosity
Challenges the accepted model, and builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.
Zarathustra's Love Beyond Wisdom
A study of Nietzche’s Zarathustra.
The Patterns of the Present
An original philosophical treatise on form and the foundations of social value.
The Wisdom of Aristotle
Appearing in English for the first time, this is the definitive scholarly treatment on the role of practical reasoning in ethics.
Unconscious Wisdom
Contra both Freud and Jung, argues that the unconscious is not exclusively irrational.
Ethics and the Between
Articulates the necessity for a comprehensive reconstructive thinking about the meaning of being good.
The Delay of the Heart
Explores themes of responsibility and initiation and offers an “initiatory ethics.”
Moral Progress
Argues that in order to reinvigorate our moral inheritances we must endeavor not only to live well, but also to live better.
Death and Responsibility
Richly informed by readings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot, the author argues that the notion of responsibility at the heart of Levinas's notion of ethics is intimately dependent upon his account of death.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
A translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.
Solidarity and Suffering
Developing a concept of justice as solidarity, this work addresses a range of urgent social issues--from the meaning of human rights and the character of corporate governance to the resolution of social conflict and the moral status of the environment.
Darwinian Natural Right
Shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature.
Philosophy, Religion, and the Question of Intolerance
Leading authorities offer insights on tolerance along with cultural, social, religious, and philosophical implications.
Illusions of Reality
Examines the origins and the development of the use of deception in psychological research to create illusions of reality.
Moral Strangers, Moral Acquaintance, and Moral Friends
Elaborates an ethic in which beneficence on a personal and communal level has moral force; proposes the idea of an interplay between compassion and reason to help address moral problems; and sketches the conditions necessary for a democratic approach to such problems.
The Rules of Insanity
Addresses the question: Can we apply ordinary standards of responsibility to the mentally disordered offender?
Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication
The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary ...
The Fragmented World of the Social
The essays in this book weave together insights and arguments from such diverse traditions as German critical theory, French philosophy and social theory, and recent Anglo-American moral and political ...
Issues in Evolutionary Ethics
This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectual struggle that took place within the framework of ...
Critique, Action, and Liberation
Critique, Action, and Liberation is an original work in critical social theory that develops an approach to and method for social and political science. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Marcuse, Adorno, ...
The Ford Pinto Case
This book brings together the basic documents needed for reaching an informed judgment on the central ethical question in the Pinto case: did Ford Motor Company act ethically in designing the Pinto fuel ...