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The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives is the first book to summarize the writings of the important contemporary theologians, philosophers, and scientists on the question of the meaning of life. In addition the book deals with the relevance of death for the question as well the huge importance that the potential scientific elimination of death will have for humanity's concern regarding meaning...

This work investigates the strengths and weaknesses of major ethical theories of the Western philosophical tradition including: egoism, relativism, divine command theory, natural law, social contract, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism, and evolutionary ethics. The book also considers moral problems like abortion, euthanasia, and biotechnology. In addition, the book discusses death and its possible defeat by future technologies. It con...

Offering a full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist, this book traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through their further developments to their mature formulation as "genetic epistemology", and invites further explorations with his theory.

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Provides a general introduction to ethical theory. The major ethical theories are described including natural law, virtue, contract and de-ontological theories. The book also introduces topics in philosophy and the nature of philosophical ethics.