Morality in a Realistic Spirit

Craig Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Flinders University. He is the author of Moralism: A Study of a Vice (2012) and Sympathy: A Philosophical Analysis (2002); a co-editor of Hume and The Enlightenment (2011) and A Sense for Humanity: the Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita (2014).Andrew Gleeson has taught philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, the University of Adelaide, and the Flinders University of South Australia. He works mainly in ethics and philosophy of religion. His book A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil was published in 2012.

• IntroductionAndrew Gleeson and Craig Taylor Ethics and ExperienceCora Diamond Cora Diamond and the Uselessness of Argument: Distances in Metaphysics and Ethics Reshef Agam-Segal The Importance of Being Fully Human: Transformation, Contemplation and EthicsSarah Bachelard How to be somebody else: imaginative identification in ethics and literatureSophie Chappell Different themes of loveChristopher Cordner A Brilliant Perspective: Diamondian EthicsAlice Crary The Riddling GodAndrew Gleeson Shakespeare, Value and DiamondSimon Haines The asymmetry of truth and the logical role of thinking guides in ethicsOskari Kuusela Difficulties of Reality, Skepticism and Moral Community: Remarks After Diamond on CavellDavid Macarthur Comparison or Seeing-As? The Holocaust and Factory FarmingTalia Morag Two conceptions of "community": as defined by what it is not, or as defined by what it isRupert Read Thinking with AnimalsDuncan Richter Diamond on Realism in Moral Philosophy Craig Taylor

"This is a rich collection, containing a great deal of beautiful philosophy . . . The (comparative) unity of themes serves to bring into relief the difference of style and intellectual temperment of the different contributors . . . The beauty comes from the deep reflectiveness of many of the essays, as well as their use of powerful examples." – Lars Hertzberg in Philosophical Investigations