Product Description: The apparently straightforward question 'Can we teach children to be good?' cannot be properly understood without a great deal of careful thinking about the philosophical issues involved. Teachers and parents often assume that what the question means and how it should be answered are self-evidently matters of plain 'commonsense', but the dangers of such assumptions are laid bare by the probing approach of this book...read more

Product Description: Here is dramatic new evidence for the survival of our individual personalities after death. It is provided by an astonishing series of recent communications from a man who died in 1930 and whose mission, when alive, was to bring just such evidence to the notice of the widest possible audience - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...read more

A biologist and a moral philosopher consider the positive potential and the possible negative consequences of genetic engineering, outlining the science surrounding the technology while discussing moral and ethical considerations. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: After reflecting on the terms 'goodness' and 'teaching', this book describes and critically examines a number of attempts to define the nature of morality in terms of its form or its content, thereby teasing out the many conflicting views of 'moral education' which follow from these theories...read more

Product Description: This book represents a distinctive and original development within the philosophy of education. All the contributors are eminent pure philosophers with established reputations in traditional areas of philosophy, who have nevertheless been willing to turn their attention to various topics of educational significance, related to their particular philosophical interests...read more

Product Description: Exploring the complex relationship between moral judgement and action, this book gives an educational perspective to the long-standing philosophical debate on `weakness of will'. Its conclusions concern the central issues of the teaching of moral education, and have wide implications for teaching and learning across the curriculum...read more