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Sentience and Sensibility: A Conversation about Moral Philosophy

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Written by philosophy professor Matthew R. Silliman, Sentience and Sensibility: A Conversation About Moral Philosophy is a treatise written in the venerable format of philosophical dialogue between individuals, in which characters actively challenge each other to clarify their ideas and defend their reasoning. Eschewing excessive technical language to remain accessible to readers of all backgrounds, Sentience and Sensibility explores both traditional and fresh takes on weighty philosophical issues such as the nature and origin of moral values, the moral status of animals, problems of partiality, racism and moral perfectionism, and much more. A thought-provoking examination of fundamental philosophical morality quandaries affecting humankind from ancient times to the modern day.

This is an incredibly, well-written dialogue. An excellent course book for introduction to philosophy, value theory, ethics, post-post modernism, etc. Accessible to the non specialist, but still of great interest to professionals in the field.

Very well written and engaging dialogs exploring a variety of moral problems. The book is quite small so there's no space to go into details and the book privileges breadth over depth, but the arguments for "value incrementalism" and the distinction between moral instruments, moral patients and moral agents are well presented.