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Egoism without Permission

Egoism without Permission

The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand's Ethics

Deepens Our Understanding of Previously Neglected Psychological Aspects of Ayn Rand’s Rational Egoism

Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal

Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal

Douglas challenges the traditional value-free ideal, and proposes a new ideal for values in science. She argues that the distinction between junk science and sound science lies in the roles values play at key points throughout science, and that constraining those roles is central to protecting the integrity and objectivity of science.

Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents

Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents

The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy

Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.

The Commodification of Academic Research

The Commodification of Academic Research

Science and the Modern University
Edited By Hans Radder

Selling science has become a common practice in contemporary universities. This commodification of academia pervades many aspects of higher education. This volume offers the first book-length analysis of this disturbing trend from a philosophical perspective and presents views by scholars of philosophy of science, social and political philosophy, and research ethics.

Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue

Metaethics, Egoism, and Virtue

Studies in Ayn Rand's Normative Theory

Philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is a cultural phenomenon. Yet Rand’s work has until recently received little serious attention from academics. This new series seeks a fuller scholarly understanding of this highly original and influential thinker. The chapters in this volume address the basis of her egoism in a virtue-centered normative ethics; her account of how moral norms in general are themselves based on a fundamental choice by an agent to value his own life; and how her own approach to the foundations of ethics is to be compared and contrasted with familiar approaches in the analytic ethical tradition.

Corporal Compassion

Corporal Compassion

Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body

New in Paper

Acampora details an inter-species morality by examining the underlying nature of bodily experience as animate creatures and as human beings.

The Ethics of Creativity

The Ethics of Creativity

Beauty, Morality, and Nature in a Processive Cosmos

Unsatisfied with current environmental philosophies, Brian G. Henning developed his own theory inspired by Alfred North Whitehead and several other classical American philosophers. In this work he discusses the theory’s most significant insight, “The Ethics of Creativity.”

Winner, John N. Findlay Book Prize from the Metaphysical Society of America

Voted one of the Top Ten Picks for university press books by Foreword Magazine in 2014.

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