The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

Ranging from moral realism to virtue ethics, this superb volume presents a complete state-of-the-art survey of ethical theory. Written by an international assembly of leading moral philosophers, each of the twenty-one newly-commissioned papers develop the main tenets, arguments, themes, and problems of the main normative and meta-ethical philosophical outlooks.

Hugh LaFollette is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is author of The Practice of Ethics (Blackwell, 2007) and Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (Blackwell, 1995), co-author of Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (1996), and editor of several other volumes, including Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (third edition, Blackwell, 2007).

Contributors

vii

Introduction

1

(12)

PART I META-ETHICS

13

(150)

The status of ethics

Moral Realism

15

(23)

Michael Smith

Relativism

38

(15)

Simon Blackburn

What grounds ethical claims?

Divine Command Theory

53

(21)

Philip L. Quinn

Naturalism

74

(18)

James Rachels

Moral Intuition

92

(19)

Jeff McMahan

Against ethical theory

The End of ethics

111

(18)

John D. Caputo

Psychological and ethics

Psychological Egoism

129

(20)

Elliott Sober

Moral Psychology

149

(14)

Laurence Thomas

PART II NORMATIVE ETHICS

163

(279)

Consequentialism

Act-Utilitarianism

165

(18)

R. G. Frey

Rule-Consequentialism

183

(22)

Brad Hooker

Deontology

Nonconsequentialism

205

(22)

F. M. Kamm

Kantianism

227

(20)

Thomas E. Hill, Jr.

Contractarianism

247

(21)

Geoffrey Sayre-McCord

Intuitionism

268

(20)

David Mcnaughton

Rights

288

(18)

L. W. Sumner

Libertarianism

306

(19)

Jan Narveson

Alternative views

Virtue Ethics

325

(23)

Michael Slote

Feminist Ethics

348

(27)

Alison M. Jaggar

Continental Ethics

375

(25)

William R. Schroeder

Pragmatic Ethics

400

(20)

Hugh LaFollette

Toward Reconciliation in Ethics

420

(22)

James P. Sterba

Index

442

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