J David Velleman: 3 books
Beyond Price
Essays on Birth and Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
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. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where...
Foundations for Moral Relativism
Second Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
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 indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding....
Yo a yo
Ensayos sobre el ser y la identidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Yo a yo reúne una serie de ensayos sobre identidad personal, autonomía y emociones morales, entre otros temas escritos por el eminente filósofo J. David Velleman. Pese a que los ensayos fueron escritos de forma independiente, están unificados por la tesis central de que no existe una entidad única...