Objective Prescriptions

R. M. Hare, FBA, was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1983, and Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville, thereafter.

• Preface ; 1. Objective Prescriptions ; 2. Prescriptivism ; 3. Some Subatomic Particles of Logic ; 4. Imperatives, Prescriptions, and their Logic ; 5. Philosophy and Conflict ; 6. A New Kind of Ethical Naturalism? ; 7. Professor Foot on Subjectivism ; 8. Internalism and Externalism in Ethics ; 9. Weakness of the Will ; 10. Foundationalism and Coherentism in Ethics ; 11. Preferences of Possible People ; 12. Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals ; 13. A Utilitarian Approach to Ethics ; 14. Is Medical Ethics Lost? ; 15. Loyalty and Obedience ; 16. Why Racism is an Evil ; 17. The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Torture ; 18. One Philosopher's Approach to Business and Professional Ethics ; 19. What Are Cities For? The Ethics of Urban Planning ; Bibliography; Index