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The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers
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David S Oderberg (Editor), P F Strawson (Foreword by)
Over the course of a career that has spanned more than fifty years, the philosopher Fred Sommers has taken on the monumental task of reviving the development of Aristotelian (syllogistic) logic after it was supplanted by the predicate logic of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The enormousness of Sommers's undertaking can be gauged by the fact ...
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Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law
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David S Oderberg (Editor), Dr. Timothy Chappell (Editor)
The recent revival of natural law theory in modern moral philosophy has been an exciting and important development. This book brings together an international group of moral philosophers who make original contributions to the project of developing natural law ethics as a comprehensive treatment of modern ethical theory and practice.
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Form and Matter
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David S Oderberg (Editor)
Recent years have seen a revival of interest in philosophy from a broadly Aristotelian perspective.Aristotelianism is an important corrective both to the naturalistic reductionism prevalent in philosophy, and to the extravagances of Platonism which are reappearing in places. This collection brings together six papers by leading philosophers ...
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Moral Theory
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David S Oderberg
The last thirty years have seen the burgeoning of applied ethics, in which moral philosophy is applied to concrete ethical problems. While this is a welcome development, it is also true that the discipline has been dominated by one particular ethical theory, namely consequentialism.Moral Theory, and its companion volume Applied Ethics, provide a ...
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Real Essentialism
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David S Oderberg
"Real Essentialism" defends the metaphysical position that everything in the world has an essence or nature that fixes its identity. Although a traditional view in philosophy, defended most famously by Aristotle, scepticism about and hostility to the notion of essence in modern and contemporary philosophy is a commonplace. Recent work in logic and ...
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Applied Ethics
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David S Oderberg
Recent years have seen the revival of the application of moral philosophy to contemporary practical problems, and a corresponding explosion of books on the subject. Most of these books, however, defend approaches that are consequentialist or specifically utilitarian in nature.Applied Ethics, and its companion volume Moral Theory, provide a viable ...
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The Metaphysics of Identity Over Time
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David S. Oderberg
This study is a systematic investigation into the metaphysical foundations of identity over time. David Oderberg elaborates and evaluates the most common theory about the persistence of objects through time and change, namely the classical theory of spatio-temporal continuity. He shows how the theory requires an ontology of temporal parts, ...
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Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics
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David S Oderberg
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics is a collection of original papers by philosophers from Britain, the USA and Australia. The aim of the book is to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, the view that the criterion of morality is the maximization of good effects over bad, ...
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Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach
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David S Oderberg
Recent years have seen the revival of the application of moral philosophy to contemporary practical problems, and a corresponding explosion of books on the subject. Most of these books, however, defend approaches that are consequentialist or specifically utilitarian in nature.Applied Ethics, and its companion volume Moral Theory, provide a viable ...
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