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Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge

Practical Reflection

Practical Reflection

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why […]

Self to Self: Selected Essays, Second Edition

Self to Self: Selected Essays, Second Edition

Self to Self brings together essays on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions by the philosopher J. David Velleman. Although the essays were written independently, they are unified by an […]

Beyond Price, Essays on Birth and Death

Beyond Price, Essays on Birth and Death

In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human […]

The Possibility of Practical Reason, Second Edition

The Possibility of Practical Reason, Second Edition

The Possibility of Practical Reason explores the foundational questions of moral psychology: How can any of our behavior qualify as acting for a reason? How can any considerations qualify as […]

On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy 

On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy 

We’ve all had to puzzle over such profound matters as birth, death, regret, free will, agency, and love. How might philosophy help us think through these vital concerns? In On […]

How We Get Along

How We Get Along

In How We Get Along, philosopher David Velleman compares our social interactions to the interactions among improvisational actors on stage. He argues that we play ourselves―not artificially but authentically, by […]

Foundations for Moral Relativism

Foundations for Moral Relativism

In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can […]

How to Keep an Open Mind

How to Keep an Open Mind

Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How […]