Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Morality Without Foundations (OUP, 1998), and editor of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (OUP, 2002).

• Acknowledgments ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; 1. Permissions to do less than the best: A moving band ; 2. What the objective standard is good for ; 3. Subjective normativity and action guidance ; 4. Actualism, possibilism, and beyond ; 5. Intention, permissibility, and double effect ; 6. Kantian intuitionism as a framework for the justification of moral judgments ; 7. An uncompromising connection between practical reason and morality ; 8. Coercion and integrity ; 9. The best expression of welfarism ; 10. Rawlsian self-respect ; 11. Exploring alternatives to the simple model: Is there an atomistic option? ; 12. Moral dumbfounding and moral stupidity ; Index

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