Inequality is a topic that has preoccupied some of the greatest political thinkers of the Western tradition. David Lay Williams describes how variously Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx and others saw inequality as a clear and present threat to both personal character and political stability.
Princeton University Press, 424pp, £30. Buy the book
In this study of the ramifications of artificial intelligence, 24 philosophers examine the ethical problems that come in its wake. AI reaches everywhere – medicine, advertising, business, politics, work – but, conclude the contributors, not all its moral consequences are malign.
Oxford University Press, 256pp, £14.99. Buy the book
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