UTILITARIANISM A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION

LAZARI-RADEK, K DE

ISBN 10: 0198728794 / ISBN 13: 9780198728795

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

Seller Inventory # NW9780198728795

Synopsis:

In this Very Short Introduction Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek provide an authoritative account of the nature of utilitarianism, from its nineteenth-century origins, to its justification and its varieties.

About the Author: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek is a Polish utilitarian philosopher, working as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Lodz. She is the author of several articles in Polish and English on Henry Sidgwick, utilitarianism, bioethics, and philosophy for children, and, with Peter Singer, has co-authored The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics (OUP, 2014). She is currently working on a book on happiness.




Peter Singer is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position that he now combines with the position of Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne. An Australian, in 2012 he was made a Companion to the Order of Australia, his country's highest civilian honour. His books include Animal Liberation (1975; Bodley Head, 2015) Practical Ethics (1979; CUP, 2011), The Life You Can Save (Picador, 2010), and The Most Good You Can Do (Yale University Press, 2015).

Bibliographic Details

Title: UTILITARIANISM A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: NEW