Monographs and Collections

• Cowley, C. (ed.), 2015, Supererogation (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 77), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Flescher, A. M., 2003, Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. (Scholar)
• Heyd, D., 1982, Supererogation: Its Status in Ethical Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Mellema, G., 1991, Beyond the Call of Duty: Supererogation, Obligation, and Offence, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Schumaker, M., 1977, Supererogation: An Analysis and Bibliography, Edmonton: St. Stephen’s College. (Scholar)
• Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik, 1998, vol. 6 (“Altruism and Supererogation”), edited by Sharon Byrd et al.
• Supererogation, 2015, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 77, edited by Christopher Cowley. (Scholar)
• Ethics and Politics, 2017, vol. 19 (“Supererogation and the Limits of Moral Obligation”), edited by Simone Grigoletto.

Articles and Books Relating to Supererogation

• Aquinas, T., Summa Theologica, Westminster, MD.: Christian Classics, 1948. (See I, II, Q. 107, 108 and II, II, Q. 106.) (Scholar)
• Archer, A., 2016, “Are Acts of Supererogation Always Praiseworthy?”, Theoria, 82: 238–255. (Scholar)
• Attfield, R., 1979, “Supererogation and Double Standards”, Mind, 88: 481–499. (Scholar)
• Baron, M., 1987, “Kantian Ethics and Supererogation”, Journal of Philosophy, 84: 237–262. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “Supererogation and Kant’s Imperfect Duties”, in Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr., M. Timmons and R. Johnson (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Benn, C., 2014, “What Is Wrong with Promising to Supererogate”, Philosophia, 42: 55–61. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018a, “The Enemy of the Good: Supererogation and Requiring Perfection”, Utilitas, 30: 333–354. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018b, “ Supererogation, Optionality and Costs”, Philosophical Studies175: 2399–2417. (Scholar)
• Benbaji, H. and Heyd, D., 2001, “The Charitable Perspective: Forgiveness and Toleration as Supererogatory”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 31: 567–585. (Scholar)
• Bergson, H., 1956, Two Sources of Morality and Religion, Garden City, NY: Doubleday. (Scholar)
• Chisholm, R., 1963, “Supererogation and Offence: A Conceptual Scheme for Ethics”, Ratio, 5: 1–14. (Scholar)
• –––, 1964, “The Ethics of Requirement”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 1: 147–153. (Scholar)
• Chisholm, R. and Sosa, E., 1966, “Intrinsic Preferability and the Problem of Supererogation”, Synthese, 16: 321–331. (Scholar)
• Cohen, S., “Forced Supererogation”, European Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming. (Scholar)
• Crisp, R., 2013, “Supererogation and Virtue”, in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (vol. 3), M. Timmons (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Dancy, J., 1988, “Supererogation and Moral Realism”, in Human Agency, J. Dancy and others (eds.), Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Derrida, J., 1992, Given Time: I.Counterfeit Money, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Dorsey, D., 2013, “The Supererogatory, and How To Accommodate It”, Utilitas, 25: 355–382. (Scholar)
• Dreier, J., 2004, “Why Ethical Satisficing Makes Sense and Rational Satisficing Doesn’t”, in M. Byron (ed.), Satisficing and Maximizing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Driver, J., 1992, “The Suberogatory”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 70: 286–295. (Scholar)
• Eisenberg, P., 1966, “From the Forbidden to the Supererogatory: The Basic Ethical Categories in Kant’s ‘Tugendlehre’”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 3: 255–269. (Scholar)
• Eriksen, A., 2015, “Beyond Professional Duty: Does Supererogation Belong to the Morality of Roles?”, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 29: 85–101. (Scholar)
• Feinberg, J., 1968, “Supererogation and Rules”, in Ethics, J. Thomson and G. Dworkin (eds.), New York: Harper and Row. (Scholar)
• Feldman, F., 1986, Doing the Best We Can. Dordrecht: Reidel. (Scholar)
• Forrester, M., 1975, “Some Remarks on Obligation, Permission, and Supererogation”, Ethics, 85: 219–226. (Scholar)
• Gamlund, E., 2010, “Supererogatory Forgiveness”, Inquiry, 53: 540–564. (Scholar)
• Guevara, D., 1999, “The Impossibility of Supererogation in Kant’s Moral Theory”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 59: 593–624. (Scholar)
• Haydar, B., 2002, “Forced Supererogation and Deontological Restrictions”, Journal of Value Inquiry, 36: 445–454. (Scholar)
• Hedberg, T., 2014, “Epistemic Supererogation and Its Implications”, Synthese, 191: 3621–3637. (Scholar)
• Heyd, D., 1978, “Ethical Universalism, Justice, and Favouritism”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 56: 25–31. (Scholar)
• –––, 1980, “Beyond the Call of Duty in Kant’s Ethics”, Kant-Studien, 71: 308-324. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995, “Obligation and Supererogation”, in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, W. Reich (ed.), New York: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “Supererogatory Giving: Can Derrida’s Circle Be Broken?”, in Philosophia Practica Universalis, B. Sharon Byrd and Jan C. Joerden (eds.), Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “A Comment on Kawall’s ‘Promising and Supererogation’”, Philosophia, 32: 399–403. (Scholar)
• Hill, T., 1971, “Kant on Imperfect Duty and Supererogation”, Kant-Studien, 62: 55-76. (Scholar)
• Horgan, T. and Timmons, M., 2010, “Untying a Knot from the Inside Out: Reflections on the ‘Paradox’ of Supererogation”, Social Philosophy and Policy, 27: 29–63. (Scholar)
• Horton, J., 2017, “The All or Nothing Problem”, Journal of Philosophy, 114: 94–104. (Scholar)
• Kamm, F., 1985, “Supererogation and Obligation”, Journal of Philosophy, 82: 118–138. (Scholar)
• Kant, I., 1949, Critique of Practical Reason (translated and edited by L. W. Beck),Chicago: University of Chicago Press, the last part of the Analytic and the Methodology. (Scholar)
• Kawall, J., 2003, “Self-Regarding Supererogatory Actions”, Journal of Social Philosophy, 34: 487–498. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “Promising and Supererogation”, Philosophia, 32: 389–398. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Virtue Theory, Ideal Observers, and the Supererogatory”, Philosophical Studies, 146: 179–196. (Scholar)
• Lichtenstein, A., 1975, “Does Jewish Tradition Recognize An Ethic Independent of Halakha?”, in Modern Jewish Ethics: Theory and Practice, M. Fox (ed.), Ohio State University Press. (Scholar)
• Luther, M., 1957, “Explanation of The Ninety Five Theses” (Thesis 58), in Works (vol. 31), H. Grimm (ed.), Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press. (Scholar)
• McElwee, B., 2017, “Supererogation Across Normative Domains”, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 95: 505–516. (Scholar)
• McNamara, P., 1996, “Making Room for Going Beyond the Call”, Mind, 105: 415–450. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Supererogation, Inside and Out: Toward an Adequate Scheme for Common-Sense Morality”, in Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (Vol. 1), M. Timmons (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Mauss, M., 1954, The Gift, London: Cohen and West. (Scholar)
• Mazutis, D., 2014, “Supererogation Beyond Positive Deviance and Corporate Social Responsibility”, Journal of Business Ethics, 119: 517–528. (Scholar)
• Mill, J. S., 1969, “Auguste Comte and Positivism”, in The Collected Works of J. S. Mill (vol. 10), Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
• Moore, G. E., 1948, Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Montague, P., 1989, “Acts, Agents, and Supererogation”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 26: 100–111. (Scholar)
• New, C., 1974, “Saints, Heroes and Utilitarians”, Philosophy, 49: 179–189. (Scholar)
• Newey, G., 1997, “Against Thin-Property Reductivism: Toleration as Supererogatory”, Journal of Value Inquiry, 31: 231–249. (Scholar)
• Parfit, D., 1982, “Future Generations: Further Problems”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 11: 113–172. (Scholar)
• Portmore, D. W., 2003, “Position-Relative Consequentialism, Agent-Centered Options, and Supererogation”, Ethics, 113: 303–332. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Are Moral Reasons Morally Overriding?”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 11: 369–388. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality, New York: Oxford University Press, especially Chap. 4, Section 4.2.2. (Scholar)
• Postow, B. C., 2005, “Supererogation Again”, Journal of Value Inquiry 39: 245–253. (Scholar)
• Pummer, T., 2016, “Whether and Where to Give”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 44: 77–95. (Scholar)
• Pybus, E., 1982, “‘Saints and Heroes’”, Philosophy, 57: 193–199. (Scholar)
• Rashdall, H., 1924, A Theory of Good and Evil, London: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Rawls, J., 1971, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Raz, J., 1975, “Permissions and Supererogation”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 12: 161–168. (Scholar)
• Richards, 1971, A Theory of Reasons for Action, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Schumaker, M., 1972, “Deontic Morality and the Problem of Supererogation”, Philosophical Studies, 23: 427–428. (Scholar)
• Shilo, S., 1978, “On One Aspect of Law and Morals in Jewish Law: Lifnim Mishurat Hadin”, Israel Law Review, 13: 359–390. (Scholar)
• Sinclair, T., 2018, “Are We Conditionally Obligated to Be Effective Altruists”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 46: 36–59. (Scholar)
• Slote, M., 1989, Beyond Optimizing, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Stangl, R., 2016, “Neo-Aristotelian Supererogation”, Ethics, 126: 339–365. (Scholar)
• Stocker, M., 1968, “Supererogation and Duties”, in Studies in Moral Philosophy, N. Rescher (ed.), American Philosophical Quarterly Monograph Series. (Scholar)
• Tertullian, On Exhortation to Chastity, New York: The Fathers of the Church.
• Timmermann, J., 2005, “Good but Not Required? – Assessing the Demands of Kantian Ethics”, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2: 9–27. (Scholar)
• Titmuss, R., 1973, The Gift Relationship, Harmondsworth: Penguin. (Scholar)
• Tranöy, K., 1967, “Asymmetries in Ethics”, Inquiry, 10: 351–372. (Scholar)
• Trianosky, G., 1986, “Supererogation, Wrongdoing and Vice: On the Autonomy of the Ethics of Virtue”, Journal of Philosophy, 83: 26–40. (Scholar)
• Ullmann-Margalit, E., 2011, “Considerateness”, Iyyun, 60: 205-244. (Scholar)
• Urmson, J., 1958, “Saints and Heroes”, in Essays in Moral Philosophy, A. Melden (ed.), Seattle: University of Washington Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988, “Hare on Intuitive Moral Thinking”, in Hare and Critics, D. Seanor and N. Fotion (eds.), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Vessel, J.-P., 2010, “Supererogation for Utilitarianism”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 47: 299–317. (Scholar)
• Weinberg, J., 2011, “Is Government Supererogation Possible?”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 92: 263–281. (Scholar)
• Wellman, C., 1999, “Gratitude as a Virtue”, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 80: 284–300. (Scholar)
• Wessels, U., 2015, “Beyond the Call of Duty:The Structure of a Moral Region”, Supererogation, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 77: 87–104. (Scholar)
• Wolf, S., 1982, “Moral Saints”, Journal of Philosophy, 79: 419–439. (Scholar)
• Zimmerman, M., 1996, The Concept of Moral Obligation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, particularly Chapter 8. (Scholar)