Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

Hugh LaFollette is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is editor-in-chief of the nine volume International Encyclopedia of Ethics (2013), and author of The Practice of Ethics (Blackwell, 2007) and Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (Blackwell, 1995). He is co-author of Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (1996), and editor of several other volumes, including Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (third edition, Blackwell, 2007).Ingmar Persson is Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. His publications include The Retreat of Reason (2005) and, together with Julian Savulescu, Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement (2012). He is now finishing From Morality to the End of Reason: An Essay on Rights, Reasons and Responsibility.

• Notes on Editors and Contributors vii Introduction 1Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar PerssonPart I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology1 Moral Realism 17Michael Smith2 Relativism 43Simon Blackburn3 Moral Agreement 59Derek Parfit4 Divine Command Theory 81Philip L. Quinn5 Moral Intuition 103Jeff McMahanPart II Factual Background of Ethics6 Ethics and Evolution 123Richard Joyce7 Psychological Egoism 148Elliott Sober8 The Science of Ethics 169Ron Mallon and John M. Doris9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197Ingmar PerssonPart III Normative Ethics10 Act-Utilitarianism 221R.G. Frey11 Rule-Consequentialism 238Brad Hooker12 Nonconsequentialism 261F.M. Kamm13 Intuitionism 287David McNaughton and Piers Rawling14 Kantianism 311Thomas E. Hill Jr15 Contractarianism 332Geoffrey Sayre-McCord16 Rights 354L.W. Sumner17 Libertarianism 373Jan Narveson18 Virtue Ethics 394Michael Slote19 Capability Ethics 412Ingrid Robeyns20 Feminist Ethics 433Alison M. Jaggar21 Continental Ethics 461William R. SchroederIndex 487