Ethics and Moral Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Thom Brooks

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 429
Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Ethics and moral philosophy is an area of particular interest today. This book brings together some of the most important essays in this area. The essays have all appeared recently in the Journal of Moral Philosophy, an internationally recognized leading philosophy journal. This book is divided into five sections: practical reason, particularism, moral realism, virtue ethics, and ethics and moral philosophy more generally.

✦ Table of Contents

Thom Brooks: Introduction

Part I: Practical Reason
Chrisoula Andreou: Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason
John Broome: Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to Reasons?
Alison Hills: Practical Reason, Value and Action
Onora O’Neill: Normativity and Practical Judgement

Part II: Particularism
Roger Crisp: Ethics Without Reasons?
Jonathan Dancy: Defending the Right

Part III: Moral Realism
Russ Shafer-Landau: Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument
Michael Ridge: Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience

Part IV: Virtue Ethics
Eric L. Hutton: Han Feizi’s Criticism of Confucianism and Its Implications for Virtue Ethics
Maria W. Merritt: Aristotelean Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical Character
Jens Timmermann: Good but Not Required?—Assessing the Demands of Kantian Ethics
Jonathan Webber: Virtue, Character and Situation

Part V: Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Timothy Hall: Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources
S. Matthew Liao: Time-Relative Interests and Abortion
S. Matthew Liao: The Basis of Human Moral Status
Martin Peterson: The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem
William Sin: Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands
Alison Stone: Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy

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