Reasons, Rights, and Values

Robert Audi is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has published numerous books and papers, including The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value (2004), Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision (2006), Moral Value and Human Diversity (2007), Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State (2011), Moral Perception (2013), and is Editor-in-Chief of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 3rd edition (forthcoming, 2015). He is also a past president of the American Philosophical Association and a former editor of the Journal of Philosophical Research.

• Introduction: practical reason, moral justification, and the grounds of value; Part I. Reasons for Action: 1. Reasons, practical reason, and practical reasoning; 2. Intrinsic value and reasons for action; 3. The grounds and structure of reasons for action; 4. Practical reason and the status of moral obligation; Part II. Intuition, Obligation, and Virtue: 5. Intuitions, intuitionism, and moral judgment; 6. Kantian intuitionism as a framework for the justification of moral judgments; 7. Moral virtue and reasons for action; 8. Virtue ethics in theory and practice; Part III. Religion, Politics, and the Obligations of Citizenship: 9. Wrongs within rights; 10. Religion and the politics of science: can evolutionary biology be religiously neutral?; 11. Nationalism, patriotism, and cosmopolitanism in an age of globalization; Index.

'Reasons, Rights, and Values is an excellent collection by one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy. Audi writes with great insight and clarity, advancing our understanding of a broad range of issues in ethics, moral epistemology, and political philosophy.' Mark Timmons, University of Arizona