Living Together

David Schmidtz is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics. Before that, he was Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at the University of Arizona. While there, he founded and served as Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science. He also was founding Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. Since 2012, he has been Editor of Social Philosophy & Policy.

• Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The Rise and Fall of Moral Science 1.1. Philosophy Lost 1.2. The Is-Ought Problem 1.3. Justice As Traffic Management 1.4. What Is a Theory? 2. After Solipsism 2.1. Strategic Consequentialism 2.2. After Shallow Pond 2.3. What Works 2.4. Strategic Deontology 3. Toward a Realistic Idealism 3.1. Ideal Theory: What It Was 3.2. Justice Is Not a Peak 3.3. Compliance Is Not a Detail 3.4. High Standards 4. Political Economy & Moral Science 4.1. The Moral Science of Adam Smith 4.2. The Political Economy of Corruption 5. Political Economy & Moral Science II 5.1. Political Economy & the Rule of Law 5.2. Cost-Benefit Analysis as Moral Science 6. Inventing the Self 6.1. The Reconciliation Project 6.2. Rational Choice Theory's Silence About Ends 6.3. Reasons for Reasons 6.4. Navigating the Terrain of Reasons 7. The Possibility of Civilization 7.1. Ecological Justice 7.2. A Brief History of the Human Condition 7.3. Ideals as Specializations References Index

Living Together contains an impressive amount of good sense in a relatively short and highly readable text. Every philosophical "sketch" should be so successful.