Goodin does allude to these rival approaches, but he does not squarely discuss them and reject all but his own particular brand of utilitarianism. Goodin is less concerned with grounding than with application of his own ethical notions to particular cases and policy issues. Indeed, I get the impression that his book and its title are mainly just an umbrella to cover his diverse musings. Admittedly, though, it is unfair of me to complain of Goodin's writing his own book rather than what I expected from its title when agreeing to review it. Goodin's writing in some of the chapters is verbose and repetitious.
Organization suffers from fragmentation of the discussion between main text and footnotes.
Readers can be grateful, anyway, that the notes appear at the bottom of the individual pages rather than, inconveniently, at the ends of chapters or of the whole book. Visa, MasterCard, or AMEX accepted.