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After Virtue
A study in moral theory that opens with a thought experiment: imagine the natural sciences destroyed and later rebuilt from fragments whose meaning has been lost. MacIntyre suggests…
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A Secular Age
A very long study, growing out of Taylor's Gifford Lectures of 1999, of what it means to live in a secular age. His guiding question is why it…
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The Blue and Brown Books
Two sets of notes that Wittgenstein dictated in English at Cambridge, the Blue Book to his class in 1933–34 and the Brown Book to two students in 1934–35.…
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The Sources of Normativity
Korsgaard's Tanner Lectures of 1992, published with commentaries by G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel and Bernard Williams and her reply. She asks the "normative question": what…
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Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
A book for general readers based on Sandel's popular Harvard course, Justice. It introduces the main theories of justice through hard cases. Sandel starts with price gouging after…
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Principia Ethica
A treatise on the foundations of ethics that helped launch analytic moral philosophy. Moore argues that the central question of ethics is what 'good' means, and that good…
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What We Owe to Each Other
The fullest statement of Scanlon's contractualism. Part One is about reasons and value. Scanlon takes reasons as basic: a reason is a consideration that counts in favour of…
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Political Liberalism
A set of lectures, published in 1993, in which Rawls reworks the theory of A Theory of Justice to face a problem he thought the earlier book had…
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On Bullshit
A short essay, first published in 1986 in the Raritan Quarterly Review and issued alone as a small book in 2005. Frankfurt sets out to give a rough…
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On What Matters
A three-volume work on reasons, morality and meta-ethics, developed from Parfit's 2002 Tanner Lectures. Volume One opens with an account of reasons, defending an objective view on which…
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