Primary Sources

Other Papers (in ethics) by Ross

• Ross, W. D., 1928, “Is There a Moral End?,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volumes, 8: 91–98. (Scholar)
• Ross, W. D., 1928–29, “The Nature of Morally Good Action,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 29: 251–274. (Scholar)
• Ross, W. D., 1929, “The Ethics of Punishment,” Journal of Philosophical Studies, 4(14): 205–211. (Scholar)
• Ross, W. D., 1931, “The Coherence Theory of Goodness,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volumes, 10: 61–70. (Scholar)

Secondary Sources

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• –––, 2004, The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Beauchamp, Tom L. and James F. Childress, 2008, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, sixth edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Bentham, Jeremy, 1789, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Bradley, Ben, 2009, Well-being and Death, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Brennan, Susan, 1989, “Ross, Promises, and the Intrinsic Value of Acts,” Lyceum, 1(2): 43–56. (Scholar)
• Broad, C. D., 1940, Review of Foundations of Ethics by W. D. Ross, Mind, 49(194): 228–239. (Scholar)
• –––, “Self and Others,” in David Cheney (ed.), Broad’s Critical Essays in Moral Philosophy, New York: Routledge, pp. 262–282. (Scholar)
• Butler, Joseph, 1736, A Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue, in David McNaughton (ed.), Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and Other Writings on Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2006, Reasons and the Good, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2004, Ethics Without Principles, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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• –––, 1959, Second Thoughts in Moral Philosophy, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
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• –––, 1973, Ethics, second edition, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Press. (Scholar)
• Gaut, Berys, 2002, “Justifying Moral Pluralism,” in Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 137–160. (Scholar)
• Greene, Joshua, 2008, “The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul,” in W. Sinnott-Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Volume 3: The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 35–79. (Scholar)
• Griffin, James, 1996, Value Judgement: Improving Our Ethical Beliefs, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2003, Virtue, Vice, and Value, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, British Ethical Theorists From Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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• –––, 1797, “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy” in Mary Gregor (ed.), The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant: Practical Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Scholar)
• Kaspar, David, 2016, “Ross’s Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 24(4): 657–674. (Scholar)
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• –––, 1996, “An Unconnected Heap of Duties?,” Philosophical Quarterly, 46(185): 433–447. (Scholar)
• Mendola, Joseph, 2006, Goodness and Justice: A Consequentialist Moral Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Mill, John Stuart, 1843, A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive, in John Robson (ed.), Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, vols. VII & VIII, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. (Scholar)
• –––, 1863, Utilitarianism, in Roger Crisp (ed.), Mill’s Utilitarianism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. (Scholar)
• Moore, G. E., 1903, Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1912, Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Moriarty, Jeffrey, 2006, “Ross on Desert and Punishment,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 87(2): 231–244. (Scholar)
• Olsen, Kristian, 2014, “Ross and the Particularism/Generalism Divide,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 44(1): 56–75. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, Variations on Some Rossian Themes, Doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Amherst. [Olsen 2015 available online] (Scholar)
• Orsi, Francesco, 2012, “David Ross, Ideal Utilitarianism, and the Intrinsic Value of Acts,” Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 1(2): 1–21. [Orsi 2012 available online] (Scholar)
• Parfit, Derek, 2011, On What Matters, two volumes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Phillips, David, 2019, Rossian Ethics: W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Pickard-Cambridge, W. A., 1932a, “Two Problems About Duty (I),” Mind, 41(161): 72–96. (Scholar)
• –––, 1932b, “Two Problems About Duty (II),” Mind, 41(162): 145–172. (Scholar)
• –––, 1932c, “Two Problems About Duty (III),” Mind, 41(163): 311–340. (Scholar)
• Price, H. H., 1931, Critical Notice of W. D. Ross, The Right and the Good, Mind, 40(159): 341–354. (Scholar)
• Price, Richard, 1787, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, D. D. Raphael (ed.), Richard Price’s A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1948. (Scholar)
• Prichard, H. A., 1912, “Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?,” Mind, 21(81): 21–37. (Scholar)
• –––, 1932, “Duty and the Ignorance of Fact,” Annual Philosophical Lecture, Henrietta Hertz Trust, London: Humphrey Milford; reprinted in MacAdam (ed.) 2002, pp. 84–110. (Scholar)
• Raphael, D. D., 1981, Moral Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Rashdall, Hastings, 1907, The Theory of Good and Evil, two volumes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1913, Ethics, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack. (Scholar)
• Rawls, John, 1971, A Theory of Justice, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Shaver, Robert, 2007, “Non-naturalism,” in Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay (eds.), Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 283–306. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “The Birth of Deontology,” in Thomas Hurka (ed.), Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 126–145. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Ross on Self and Others,” Utilitas, 26(3): 303–320. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, Review of David Phillips, Rossian Ethics: W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory, Utilitas, 32(4): 106–109. (Scholar)
• Sidgwick, Henry, 1907, The Methods of Ethics, seventh edition, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Singer, Peter, 2005, “Ethics and Intuitions,” The Journal of Ethics, 9(3–4): 331–352. (Scholar)
• Skelton, Anthony, 2007, Critical Notice of Robert Audi, The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 37(2): 305–326. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Ideal Utilitarianism: Rashdall and Moore,” in Thomas Hurka (ed.), Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 45–65. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013a, “Ross, William David (1877–1971),” in James Crimmins (ed.), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013b, “Ideal Utilitarianism,” in James Crimmins (ed.), Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Late Utilitarian Moral Theory and Its Development: Sidgwick, Moore,” in John Shand (ed.), A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 291–310. (Scholar)
• Stratton-Lake, Philip, 2002a, “Introduction,” in W.D. Ross, The Right and the Good, Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. ix–lviii. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002b, “Pleasure and Reflection in Ross’s Intuitionism,” in Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-evaluations, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 113–136. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011a, “Eliminativism about Derivative Prima Facie Duties,” in Thomas Hurka (ed.), Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 146–165. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011b, “Recalcitrant Pluralism,” Ratio, 24(4): 364–383. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “On W. D. Ross’s ‘The Basis of Objective Judgements in Ethics’,” Ethics, 125(2): 521–524. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, Review of David Phillips, Rossian Ethics: W. D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 9. [Stratton-Lake 2019 available online] (Scholar)
• Stroud, Sarah, 2017, “Lying as Infidelity: A Quasi-Rossian Account,” in Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics (Volume 7), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 73–97. (Scholar)
• Warnock, Mary, 1960, Ethics Since 1900, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wiggins, David, 2004, “Ross, Sir (William) David (1877–1971),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wiland, Eric, 2014, “Rossian Deontology and the Possibility of Moral Expertise,” in Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 159–178. (Scholar)
• Zimmerman, Michael J., 2011, “Ross on Retributivism,” in Thomas Hurka (ed.), Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 166–182. (Scholar)