The Blog of the APA is pleased to announce that we are partnering with Exact Editions and several academic publishers to make philosophy books by APA authors available online. Books that are part of this initiative will be featured on Exact Editions’s website in their entirety. They will be available for a limited time and must be accessed from the APA Blog. Readers interested in learning more about featured books are encouraged to visit the virtual reading rooms.
The Blog plans to showcase new books on a regular basis using this method. If you are interested in having your book featured, or want to share thoughts about this project, please contact us here.
Books for September
The following are the books available from now until September 31:
Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death by J. David Velleman: 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 lives.
Ethics for A-Level by Mark Dimmock and Andrew Fisher: This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores key ideas in the fields of normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics.
Foundations for Moral Relativism by J. David Velleman: This book shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding.
Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint by Catherine Wilson: This book shows how to understand morality and how to construct a morality for oneself without having to buy into an existing textbook theory such as utilitarianism or Kantianism.
Wellbeing, Freedom, and Social Justice by Ingrid Robeyns: This book argues that by appreciating the distinction between the general capability approach and more specific capability theories or applications we can create a powerful and flexible tool for use in a variety of academic disciplines and fields of policymaking.
