Contemporary debates in moral theory
By: edited by James Dreier.
Contributors: Drier, James.
Series: Contemporary debates in philosophy
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781405101783; 9781405101790
Subjects: Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Normative theory; title: Is the rightness of action determined by the value of consequences?; title: The consequentialist perspective / William Shaw; title: Against maximizing act-consequentialism / Peter Vallentyne; title: Part II: Reasons with demands : rethinking rightness / Alastair Norcross; title: Can contract theory ground morality?; title: Moral contractarianism as a foundation for interpersonal morality / Samuel Freeman; title: Can contract theory ground morality? / Philip Pettit; title: Are the virtues the proper starting point for ethical theory?; title: Are virtues the proper starting point for morality? / Rosalind Hursthouse; title: Virtue theory / Julia Driver; title: Reason and motivation; title: Are moral requirements derived from reason?; title: Reason, sentiment, and categorical imperatives / Samuel J. Kerstein; title: Must we weep for sentimentalism? / Simon Blackburn; title: Is motivation internal to moral judgment?; title: How do moral judgments motivate? / Sigrun Svavarsdottir; title: Moral motivation / R. Jay Wallace; title: Part III: Moral facts and explanations; title: Is morality fully factual?; title: Moral factualism / Peter Railton; title: Morality without moral facts / Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons; title: Do moral facts and properties explain anything?; title: Moral explanations defended / Nicholas L. Sturgeon; title: Moral epistemology and the because constraint / Nick Zangwill; title: Are there general moral principles?; title: Ethical generality and moral judgment / Robert Audi; title: Defending moral particularism / Mark Lance and Margaret O. Little.