The Ethics of Social Roles

ISBN-13: 9780192843562 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str.

O autorze

Sean Cordell received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, and has since held posts at Sheffield, the University of Birmingham, and the Open University where he is currently Staff Tutor and Senior Lecturer. His research has developed from an in initial interest in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics to include the nature of social institutions, their virtues and vices, and the roles they determine for individual agents. Alex Barber received his doctorate from McGill University, Canada and currently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University, UK. He has cross disciplinary research interests, and within philosophy works mainly on ethical and political philosophy, especially on topics where his expertise in the philosophy of language and linguistics can be brought to bear.