Music / Philosophy
A Huge Revolution of Theatrical Commerce
Epistemology and Methodology in Ethics
Walter Mocchi and the Italian Musical Theatre Business in South America Matteo Paoletti | Università degli Studi di Genova
Tristram McPherson | Ohio State University
In the early twentieth century, South America became the most important market for European opera and musical theatre and this Element explores Walter Mocchi’s transoceanic role in this revolution. He staged world premieres of works by Italian superstars in Argentina, offering an early example of what Stephen Greenblatt calls ‘cultural mobility’. Elements in Musical Theatre
August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-79048-2 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
Topics include skeptical challenges in ethics, epistemic arguments in metaethics, what (if anything) is epistemically distinctive of the ethical. Also considered are methodological questions in ethics, including questions about which ethical concepts we should investigate, and what our goals should be in ethical inquiry. Elements in Ethics
June 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-71340-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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Moore’s Ethics William H. Shaw
Philosophy
A critical survey of the full range of G. E. Moore’s ethical thought, including his rejection of naturalism in favor of the view that ‘good’ designates a simple indefinable property, his understanding of intrinsic value, his doctrine of organic wholes, and his critique of egoism and subjectivism.
The Ethics of Social Punishment
Elements in Ethics
The Enforcement of Morality in Everyday Life Linda Radzik | Texas A & M University
This book extends philosophical discussions of punishment to a new topic: the ways ordinary people enforce morality in everyday life. Readers interested in moral, legal and social issues will find tools for critically evaluating contemporary practices, including calling wrongdoers out, boycotting, and public shaming on social media. • Examines the overlooked moral phenomenon of social punishment in everyday life • Develops a distinctive account of desert that can be applied to topics beyond social punishment, including legal punishment • Extends the existing philosophy of punishment to contemporary phenomena such as ‘call-out culture’ and public shaming on social media October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.200pp 978-1-108-83606-7 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 978-1-108-79929-4 Paperback £21.99 / US$28.99
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Thomas Reid on the Ethical Life Terence Cuneo | University of Vermont
Presenting Thomas Reid’s agency-centered ethical theory. This means, one according to which agency intersects with the subject matter of ethics in a sufficiently wide range of important ways that we cannot satisfactorily engage in ethical theorizing without committing ourselves to and, ultimately developing, particular understandings of agency. Elements in Ethics
August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70689-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70654-4 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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Ethical Subjectivism and Expressivism Neil Sinclair | University of Nottingham
Ethical subjectivists hold that moral judgements are descriptions of our attitudes. Expressivists hold that they are expressions of our attitudes. Can these views accommodate three central features of moral practice: practicality of moral judgements, phenomenon of moral disagreement, and mind-independence of some moral truths? Elements in Ethics
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70651-3 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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Ethics and the Media An Introduction Second edition Stephen J. A. Ward | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Now revised and containing several new chapters, this book provides comprehensive ethical principles and methods of reasoning for digital, global media. It describes the turbulent state of media ethics in ordinary language and through clear examples, addressing crucial issues like social media racism, intolerant groups, and global disinformation. • Provides a rich overall perspective on the issues of digital media today and why there is a need to reform how media ethics is practiced • Proposes a set of moral principles and a step-by-step method of reasoning about media in the digital age • Suggests practical guidelines for reporting on specific and urgent issues such as social media racism, extremism, demagogic leaders and fake news Cambridge Applied Ethics
October 2020 244 x 170 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-48976-8 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 978-1-108-74750-9 Paperback £20.99 / US$26.99
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