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  1. Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology.Michael E. Zimmerman (ed.) - 2004 - Pearson.
    Edited by leading experts in contemporary environmental philosophy, this anthology features the best available selections that cover the full range of positions within this rapidly developing field. Divided into four sections that delve into the vast issues of contemporary Eco-philosophy, the Fourth Edition now includes a section on Continental Environmental Philosophy that explores current topics such as the social construction of nature, and eco-phenomenology. Each section is introduced and edited by a leading philosopher in the field. For professionals with a (...)
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  • Leftist Theories of Sport: A Critique and Reconstruction.William J. Morgan & William John Morgan - 1994 - Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
    The degradation of modern sport--its commercialization, trivialization, widespread cheating, cult of athletic stars and celebrities, and manipulation by the media--has led to calls for its transformation. William J. Morgan constructs a critical theory of sport that shores up the weak arguments of past attempts and points a way forward to making sport more humane, compelling, and substantive. Drawing on the work of social theorists, Morgan challenges scholars and fans alike to explore new spaces in sport culture and imagine the rich (...)
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  • Environmental Ethics.Robert Elliot (ed.) - 1995 - Oxford University Press.
    This volume offers a selection of some of the best and most interesting articles that have been written on ethics and the environment in the past two decades. It constitutes an ideal introduction to the main debates in the area, dealing with issues such as duties to future people, resource conservatism, species and wilderness preservation, the relevance of ecology to ethics, ecofeminism, and the tension between political liberalism and environmentalism. This book will be of interest not just to professional philosophers (...)
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  • (3 other versions)A Theory of Justice.John Rawls - unknown
    Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition--justice as fairness--and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth century. Rawls substitutes the ideal of the (...)
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  • Personal Best.W. M. Brown - 1995 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 22 (1):1-10.
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  • Sporting Practices, Institutions, and Virtues: A Critique and a Restatement.Mike McNamee - 1995 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 22 (1):61-82.
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  • Outline of an Ecosophy of Sport.Sigmund Loland - 1996 - Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 23 (1):70-90.
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  • Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life.Nicholas Rescher - 1995 - New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
    An esteemed American philosopher reflects on the nature of luck and its historical role in war, business, lotteries, and romance, and delineates the differences ...
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  • Reason and human good in Aristotle.John Madison Cooper - 1975 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    I Deliberation, Practical Syllogisms , and Intuition. Introduction Aristotle's views on moral reasoning are a difficult and much disputed subject. ...
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  • (3 other versions) History of the Idea of Progress.[author unknown] - 1980
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