Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue

John Hacker-Wright is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Philippa Foot’s Moral Thought (2013) and many papers on virtue ethics and neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism. He is editor of the Journal of Value Inquiry.

• 1. Introduction; John Hacker-Wright.- 2. The Grammar of Goodness in Foot’s Ethical Naturalism; Rosalind Hursthouse.- 3. How to be an Ethical Naturalist; Jennifer A. Frey.- 4. Practically Self-Conscious Life; Matthias Haase.- 5. Traditional Naturalism; Kristina Gehrman.- 6. “Why Should I?”; Anselm W. Müller.- 7. The Deep and the Shallow; Gavin Lawrence.- 8. Foot’s Grammar of Goodness; Micah Lott.- 9. Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection; Parisa Moosavi.- Index.

“It is no understatement to say that Hacker-Wright’s collection lifts up critical engagement with Foot’s naturalism to an entirely new level and therefore represents required reading for anyone who intends to work on it in the future.” (Sascha Settegast, Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Vol. 2, 2019)