It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer
gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they …

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

Timothy Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside
from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. His question is' …

While philosophers have been debating for decades on whether different entities—including
severely disabled human beings, embryos, animals, objects of nature, and even works of art …

One of the most remarkable claims Rawls (1971, 343) makes in A Theory of Justice is when
he refers to unjust social arrangements as a kind of violence:'Unjust social arrangements are …

Global ethics addresses some of the most pressing ethical concerns today, including rogue
states, torture, scarce resources, poverty, migration, consumption, global trade, medical …

" Ethics and Experience" presents a wide-ranging and thought-provoking introduction to the
question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived?'An excellent primer for any …

abstract I examine the familiar criterial view of personhood, according to which the
possession of personal properties such as self‐consciousness, emotionality, sentience, and …

By focusing on the practices of morally justifying actions and moral judgements, it has been
possible to support the view that justification is required only for that which seems to be …

Alice Crary claims that “the standard view of the bearing of Wittgenstein's philosophy on
ethics” is dominated by “inviolability interpretations”, which often underlie conservative …