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  • The Philosophy of Well-Being

    An Introduction

    by Guy Fletcher ...
    Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and psychology of well-being have propelled the topic to centre stage, and governments spend millions on promoting it. We are encouraged to adopt modes of thinking and behaviour that support individual well ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Dear Prudence

    The Nature and Normativity of Prudential Discourse

    by Guy Fletcher ...
    Philosophers have long theorized about what makes people's lives go well, and why, and the extent to which morality and self-interest can be reconciled. However, we have spent little time on meta-prudential questions, questions about prudential discourse--thought and talk about what is good and bad for us; what contributes to well-being; and what we have prudential reason, or prudentially ought, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Philosophy for Everyone

    by Matthew Chrisman, Duncan Pritchard, Guy Fletcher, Elinor Mason, Jane Suilin Lavelle, Michela Massimi, Alasdair Richmond, Dave Ward ...
    Philosophy for Everyone begins by explaining what philosophy is before exploring the questions and issues at the foundation of this important subject.Key topics in this new edition and their areas of focus include:Moral philosophy – the nature of our moral judgments and reactions, whether they aim at some objective moral truth, or are mere personal or cultural preferences; and the possibility of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Well-Being

    An Introduction

    by Guy Fletcher ...
    Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism. It also extends far beyond philosophy: recent studies into the science and psychology of well-being have propelled the topic to centre stage, and governments spend millions on promoting it. We are encouraged to adopt modes of thinking and behaviour that support individual well ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being

    Edited by Guy Fletcher ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    The concept of well-being is one of the oldest and most important topics in philosophy and ethics, going back to ancient Greek philosophy. Following the boom in happiness studies in the last few years it has moved to centre stage, grabbing media headlines and the attention of scientists, psychologists and economists. Yet little is actually known about well-being and it is an idea that is often ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Reflective Life

    Living Wisely With Our Limits

    by Valerie Tiberius ...
    How should you live? Should you devote yourself to perfecting a single talent or try to live a balanced life? Should you lighten up and have more fun, or buckle down and try to achieve greatness? Should you try to be a better friend? Should you be self-critical or self-accepting? And how should you decide among the possibilities open to you? Should you consult experts, listen to your parents, do ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Understanding Ignorance

    The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know

    by Daniel R. Denicola ...
    An exploration of what we can know about what we don't know: why ignorance is more than simply a lack of knowledge.Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, “I'm not a scientist.” Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and “This is America, not Mexico or Latin America.” Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Moral Imagination

    Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics

    by Mark Johnson ...
    Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science ... Read more

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  • The Gift in the Heart of Language

    The Maternal Source of Meaning

    by Genevieve Vaughan ...
    Genevieve Vaughan offers a paradigm-shifting view of the structure of material and verbal communication, based on mother-child experience and confirmed by recent research in infant psychology.This view justifies a relational epistemology that informs the material gift economy as well as the structure of language itself.Provisioning economies give value to the receivers, and the circulation of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Nature of Rationality

    by Robert Nozick ...
    Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every thoughtful person. Here Nozick continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience. In the lively and accessible style that his readers have come to ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • A Social Theory of Freedom

    by Mariam Thalos ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Time Biases

    A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence

    by Meghan Sullivan ...
    Should you care less about your distant future? What about events in your life that have already happened? How should the passage of time affect your planning and assessment of your life? Most of us think it is irrational to ignore the future but completely harmless to dismiss the past. But this book argues that rationality requires temporal neutrality: if you are rational you don't engage in any ... Read more

    $24.69 USD