Moral Theory and Anomaly

Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to women and the non-human natural world.

Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. In 1996-7 he was Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University and he has published extensively in moral theory and applied ethics, philosophy of science and the history and historiography of early modern philosophy. His previous books include Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (Blackwell, 1987); Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science (1991); and Hobbes (1986).

Preface

ix

Part One Doubts about Moral Theories

Moral Theory and Anti-theory

3

(29)

Uses for Moral Theory

4

(9)

Scepticism about Moral Theory

13

(6)

Countering Anti-theory

19

(11)

Summary

30

(2)

Theory versus Theories

32

(33)

Williams on Moral Theory

32

(9)

A Rough Parallel: Normal Science and Standard Normative Ethical Theory

41

(4)

Puzzles in Moral Theory

45

(9)

Puzzles versus Anomalies

54

(3)

The Argument of the Rest of the Book

57

(8)

Part Two Some Sources of Anomaly?

Business, the Ethical and Self-interest

65

(26)

Two Sources of Prima-facie Anomaly

65

(2)

The Utopianism of Business Ethics

67

(7)

Moral Sensibility and Insensibility in Business

74

(4)

Near-realistic Business Ethics

78

(2)

Moral Reasons Again

80

(4)

The Deep Problem in Business Ethics

84

(7)

Politics, Power and Partisanship

91

(27)

Political Morality: the Moral Risks of Power for the Public Good

93

(3)

Dirty Hands

96

(3)

Public Morality, Private Morality and Moral Schizophrenia

99

(6)

Hampshire's Anti-theory of Political Morality

105

(5)

The Difference Democracy Makes

110

(3)

Democracy and Partisanship

113

(5)

Feminism and Moral Theory

118

(29)

How Conventional Theories Let Women Down

120

(3)

Moral Theory after Gilligan

123

(8)

Beyond Care? Sarah Hoagland's Lesbian Ethics

131

(5)

Theory without Patriarchy?

136

(3)

The Challenge of Practice: Two True Stories

139

(6)

Conclusion

145

(2)

Environmentalism and Moral Theory

147

(28)

The Land Ethic and its Competitors

148

(3)

Is the Land Ethic a Moral Theory?

151

(2)

How Throughgoing is the Land Ethic?

153

(2)

The Problem of Grounding Reconsidered

155

(7)

From Deep Environmentalist Theory to Practice

162

(6)

A Residual Anomaly

168

(7)

Part Three Conclusion

The Significance of Anomaly

175

(18)

Anomalies Reviewed

176

(3)

Do Anomalies Have Anything in Common?

179

(8)

The Significance of Anomaly

187

(6)

Notes

193

(16)

Index

209

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