Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory

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Wiley-Blackwell (2006)
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James Dreier
Brown University
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_Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory _features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on the most controversial issues in moral theory Questions include: Are moral requirements derived from reason? How demanding is morality? Are virtues the proper starting point for moral theorizing? Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in contemporary moral theory, while also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers
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ISBN(s) 1405101784   9780470794265   9781405101790   9781405150262   1405101792   9781405101783
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Ethical Generality and Moral Judgment.Robert Audi
Must We Weep for Sentimentalism?Simon Blackburn
Virtue Theory.Julia Driver
Moral Contractarianism as a Foundation for Interpersonal Morality.Samuel Freeman
Morality Without Moral Facts.Terry Horgan & Mark Timmons
Are Virtues the Proper Starting Point for Morality?Rosalind Hursthouse
Reason, Sentiment, and Categorical Imperatives.Samuel J. Kerstein
Defending Moral Particularism.Mark Lance & Margaret Olivia Little
Reasons Without Demands: Rethinking Rightness.Alastair Norcross
Can Contract Theory Ground Morality?Philip Pettit
Moral factualism.Peter Railton
The Consequentialist Perspective.William Shaw
Moral Explanations Defended.Nicholas L. Sturgeon
How Do Moral Judgments Motivate?Sigrun Svavarsdottir
Against Maximizing Act-Consequentialism (June 30, 2008).Peter Vallentyne
Moral Motivation.R. Jay Wallace
Moral Epistemology and the Because Constraint.Nick Zangwill

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Fittingness: The Sole Normative Primitive.Richard Yetter Chappell - 2012 - Philosophical Quarterly 62 (249):684 - 704.
Should Utilitarianism Be Scalar?Gerald Lang - 2013 - Utilitas 25 (1):80-95.
For Utilitarianism.Jean-Paul Vessel - 2010 - American Philosophical Quarterly 47 (4).

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