The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

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Building 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 Content: Notes on Editors and Contributors vii Introduction 1Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology 1 Moral Realism 17Michael Smith 2 Relativism 43Simon Blackburn 3 Moral Agreement 59Derek Parfit 4 Divine Command Theory 81Philip L. Quinn 5 Moral Intuition 103Jeff McMahan Part II Factual Background of Ethics 6 Ethics and Evolution 123Richard Joyce 7 Psychological Egoism 148Elliott Sober 8 The Science of Ethics 169Ron Mallon and John M. Doris 9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197Ingmar Persson Part III Normative Ethics 10 Act-Utilitarianism 221R.G. Frey 11 Rule-Consequentialism 238Brad Hooker 12 Nonconsequentialism 261F.M. Kamm 13 Intuitionism 287David McNaughton and Piers Rawling 14 Kantianism 311Thomas E. Hill Jr 15 Contractarianism 332Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 16 Rights 354L.W. Sumner 17 Libertarianism 373Jan Narveson 18 Virtue Ethics 394Michael Slote 19 Capability Ethics 412Ingrid Robeyns 20 Feminist Ethics 433Alison M. Jaggar 21 Continental Ethics 461William R. Schroeder Index 487