Disorientations are human experiences of losing one's bearings that can paralyze, overwhelm, embitter, and misdirect moral agents. In this philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action, Ami Harbin demonstrates through a distinctly feminist perspecti…
This text argues for the moral and political promise of disorientations, challenging common philosophical understandings of the necessity of orientedness for responsible moral action. In the face of difficult life experiences like trauma, grief, illness, migration, education, qu…
Lawrence Schmidt and Scott Marratto challenge modern liberal ethics, arguing that there is no consistent ethical framework to deal with the long-range negative consequences of certain technological developments.
"In the Typic chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant aims to enable moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or formal analogue, of moral law. The present monograph is the first comprehensive study of this key text. It provides a detai…
"In the Typic chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant aims to enable moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or formal analogue, of moral law. The present monograph is the first comprehensive study of this key text. It provides a detai…
"In the Typic chapter of the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant aims to enable moral judgment by means of the law of nature, which serves as the 'type', or formal analogue, of moral law. The present monograph is the first comprehensive study of this key text. It provides a detai…
An original interpretation of John Locke's metaphysics of moral agency, in which to be a moral agent is simply to be free rational, and a person. The author's account bears on Locke's metaphysics and political theory, and helps us understand his wider philosophical project and h…
"Antonia Lolordo presents an original interpretation of John Locke's conception of moral agency (one that has implications both for his metaphysics and for the foundations of his political theory. Locke denies that species boundaries exist independently of human convention, hold…