Description
Book SynopsisBuilding on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers.
- A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new material
- Includes 21 essays written by an international team of leading philosophers
- Extensive, substantive essays develop the main arguments of all the leading viewpoints in ethical theory
- Essays new to this edition cover evolution and ethics, capability ethics, virtues and consequences, and the implausibility of virtue ethics
Table of ContentsNotes on Editors and Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson
Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology
1 Moral Realism 17
Michael Smith
2 Relativism 43
Simon Blackburn
3 Moral Agreement 59
Derek Parfit
4 Divine Command Theory 81
Philip L. Quinn
5 Moral Intuition 103
Jeff McMahan
Part II Factual Background of Ethics
6 Ethics and Evolution 123
Richard Joyce
7 Psychological Egoism 148
Elliott Sober
8 The Science of Ethics 169
Ron Mallon and John M. Doris
9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197
Ingmar Persson
Part III Normative Ethics
10 Act-Utilitarianism 221
R.G. Frey
11 Rule-Consequentialism 238
Brad Hooker
12 Nonconsequentialism 261
F.M. Kamm
13 Intuitionism 287
David McNaughton and Piers Rawling
14 Kantianism 311
Thomas E. Hill Jr
15 Contractarianism 332
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
16 Rights 354
L.W. Sumner
17 Libertarianism 373
Jan Narveson
18 Virtue Ethics 394
Michael Slote
19 Capability Ethics 412
Ingrid Robeyns
20 Feminist Ethics 433
Alison M. Jaggar
21 Continental Ethics 461
William R. Schroeder
Index 487
