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  • A Companion to Ethics

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through from beginning to end; yet the inclusion of a multi-layered index, coupled with a descriptive ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Buddhist and the Ethicist

    Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World

    by Peter Singer, Shih Chao-Hwei ...
    Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty, and moreAn unlikely duo—Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent philosopher and professor of bioethics, and Venerable Shih Chao-Hwei, a Taiwanese Buddhist monastic and social activist—join forces to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Ethics in the Real World

    90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition

    by Peter Singer ...
    Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he helped launch the animal rights and effective ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Does Anything Really Matter?

    Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD $34.99 CAD

  • Practical Ethics

    by Peter Singer ...
    For thirty years, Peter Singer's Practical Ethics has been the classic introduction to applied ethics. For this third edition, the author has revised and updated all the chapters and added a new chapter addressing climate change, one of the most important ethical challenges of our generation. Some of the questions discussed in this book concern our daily lives. Is it ethical to buy luxuries when ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • In Defense of Animals

    The Second Wave

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement.Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years agoEssays explore new ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Golden Ass

    by Apuleius ...
    Translated by Ellen Finkelpearl ...
    “Think of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, throw in generous helpings of humor, sex, and magic, and you might get a rough idea of what The Golden Ass is like.” —Peter SingerPeter Singer and Ellen Finkelpearl breathe new life into Apuleius’s The Golden Ass—a hilarious, bawdy tale and one of the earliest novels—accentuating its remarkable empathy for animals.Conceived at the zenith of the Roman Empire, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Writings on an Ethical Life

    by Peter Singer ...
    The essential collection of writings by one of the most visionary and daring philosophers of our timeSince bursting sensationally into the public consciousness in 1975 with his groundbreaking work Animal Liberation, Peter Singer has remained one of the most provocative ethicists of the modern age. His reputation, built largely on isolated incendiary quotations and outrage-of-the-moment news ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ethics of Killing Animals

    by Peter Singer ...
    While it is generally accepted that animal welfare matters morally, it is less clear how to morally evaluate the ending of an animal's life. It seems to matter for the animal whether it experiences pain or pleasure, or enjoyment or suffering. But does it also matter for the animal whether it lives or dies? Is a longer life better for an animal than a shorter life? If so, under what conditions is ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD $25.99 CAD

  • Utilitarianism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Utilitarianism may well be the most influential secular ethical theory in the world today. It is also one of the most controversial. It clashes, or is widely thought to clash, with many conventional moral views, and with human rights when they are seen as inviolable. Would it, for example, be right to torture a suspected terrorist in order to prevent an attack that could kill and injure a large ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Bioethics

    Edited by Helga Kuhse, Peter Singer ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    This second edition of A Companion to Bioethics, fully revised and updated to reflect the current issues and developments in the field, covers all the material that the reader needs to thoroughly grasp the ideas and debates involved in bioethics.Thematically organized around an unparalleled range of issues, including discussion of the moral status of embryos and fetuses, new genetics, life and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Pushing Time Away

    My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

    by Peter Singer ...
    This account of a teacher in Austria—a friend of Freud and one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust—is “beautifully written and deeply moving” (Joyce Carol Oates).Peter Singer’s Pushing Time Away is a rich and loving portrait of the author’s grandfather, David Oppenheim, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his life in a concentration camp during the Second World War. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus