Logic and Ethics

• 1. Ethics and the Limits of Consistency.- 2. Negative Values.- 3. Whatever Happened to Deontic Logic.- 4. The Ethical Root of Language.- 5. The Principle of Transcendence and the Foundation of Axiology.- 6. Deontic Logic and Imperative Logic.- 7. Against Tolerating the Intolerable.- 8. Winning Against and With the Opponent.- 9. Meaning—Norms and Objectivity.- 10. On the Logic of Practical Evaluation.- 11. The Deductive Model in Ethics.- 12. Truth—Value of Ethical Statements: Some Philosophical Implications of the Model—Theoretic Defintion of Truth.- 13. On Subjective Appreciation of Objective Moral Points.- 14. On Fair Distribution of Indivisible Goods.- 15. Needs and Values.

'All in all, this a volume that is indispensable for any academic library worthy of the name....On that basis alone I recommend it wholeheartedly.' Ethics Jan. 1992