Aiming to redress the imbalance in moral philosophy created by the dominance of consequentialism, this text critically examines the assumptions and arguments of consequentialism. Essays discuss concepts such as rights, justice, innocence, natural integrity and the fundamental value of human life.

Presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. This title reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues.

Form and Matter is a collection of six papers by leading philosophers on topics in contemporary metaphysics looked at from an Aristotelian perspective. Topics covered include substance, material constitution, the metaphysics of mind, the nature of mixture,and the analysis of what it is to be a living thing.

This study is a systematic investigation into the metaphysical foundations of identity over time. The author elaborates and evaluates the most common theory about the persistence of objects through time and change, namely the classical theory of spatio-temporal continuity.

Presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism. This title reinvigorates the tradition of realist, essentialist metaphysics, defending the reality and knowability of essence, the possibility of objective, immutable definition, and its relevance to contemporary scientific and metaphysical issues.

Applied Ethics focuses the central concepts of traditional morality - rights, justice, the good, virtue, and the fundamental value of human life - on a number of pressing contemporary problems, including abortion, euthanasia, animals, capital punishment, and war.

This text sets out the basic system used to solve moral problems, the system that consequentialists deride as traditional morality and which they believe is dead .