The Oxford Handbook of Normative Ethics

David Copp is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Ethical Naturalism and the Problem of Normativity (2025), Morality, Normativity, and Society (1995), and Morality in a Natural World (2007), and he edited The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory (2006). He served on the editorial boards of Ethics and the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and as a co-editor of the metaethics section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He has published and lectured widely on topics in moral and political philosophy.Connie Rosati is Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy and Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. She has authored articles in metaethics, ethics, and the philosophy of law, including "Agency and the Open Question Argument," "The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency," "Constitutional Realism," and "Welfare and Rational Fit." She hasserved as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ethics, Legal Theory, and the metaethics section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Tina Rulli is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of California, Davis. She works in normative ethics, applied ethics, and bioethics, with a focus on population ethics and reproduction. Her papers include "Preferring a Genetically-Related Child," "Conditional Obligations," and "IIA, Rationality, and the Individuation of Options." She is co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Applied Philosophy.

• Part I. Basic Distinctions 1: Julia Driver: Consequentialism 2: Philip Pettit: Direct Consequentialism, Unlimited 3: Brad Hooker: Rule-Consequentialism's Essence and Rationale 4: Richard Yetter Chappell: Consequentialism: Core and Expansion 5: Dale Dorsey: Welfarism 6: Ben Bradley: Hedonism 7: Christoph Fehige and Ulla Wessels: Desire-Oriented Theories of Welfare 8: Jason Raibley and Valerie Tiberius: Value Fulfillment and the Prudential Good 9: Guy Fletcher: Objective List Theory 10: Gwen Bradford: Perfectionism 11: David McNaughton and Piers Rawling: Rossian Deontology 12: David Schmidtz: Moral Rights 13: Thomas E. Hill Jr.: Kantian Normative Ethics 14: Rahul Kumar: Contractualism 15: Christian Barry and Kerah Gordon-Solmon: The Doing and Allowing Distinction 16: Elizabeth Harman: Heroes and Jerks: Morality Beyond Requirement 17: S. Andrew Schroeder: Leaving (the Concept of) Deontology Behind 18: Paul Hurley: Against Consequentializing of Normative Theories 19: Julia Annas: Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics 20: Christine Swanton: Non-Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics 21: Rachana Kamtekar and Shaun Nichols: On Debunking Virtue 22: Stephanie Collins: The Ethics of Care as a Normative Ethical Theory 23: Anita M. Superson: Feminist Ethics 24: David B Wong: Normative Relativism Part II. Methodology and Epistemic Issues 25: Gerald Dworkin: Theory, Practice, and Moral Reasoning 26: Antti Kauppinen and Jaakko Hirvelä: Reflective Equilibrium 27: Natalie Gold: Thought Experiments in Ethics Or: Has the Trolley Problem Gone off the Rails? 28: Amelia Hicks: Ignorance and Duty: The Objective/Subjective Distinction in Ethics 29: Sarah Stroud: Morality and Epistemic Rationality 30: Joe Horton and Jacob Ross: Evaluative Uncertainty Part III. Responsibility and Agency 31: John Martin Fischer: Responsibility and Control: New Work 32: Nomy Arpaly: On Being "Blameless Among One's Contemporaries": Moral Ignorance and Widespread Wrongdoing 33: Elinor Mason: Negligence, Recklessness, and Strict Liability 34: Andrew C. Khoury: Moral Luck Part IV. General Problems for Normative Theories 35: Garrett Cullity: Particularism and Anti-Theory 36: Gustaf Arrhenius: Population Ethics: A Challenge to the Project of Normative Ethics? 37: Zofia Stemplowska and Henrik D. Kugelberg: Partial Compliance Theory 38: Judith Lichtenberg: Some Individual Responsibilities Intertwined With Collectives 39: William Wringe: Collective Obligations 40: Jeff Sebo: Moral Circle Explosion 41: Tina Rulli: The Moral Status of Possible Persons Part I. Basic Distinctions 1: Julia Driver: Consequentialism 2: Philip Pettit: Direct Consequentialism, Unlimited 3: Brad Hooker: Rule-Consequentialism's Essence and Rationale 4: Richard Yetter Chappell: Consequentialism: Core and Expansion 5: Dale Dorsey: Welfarism 6: Ben Bradley: Hedonism 7: Christoph Fehige and Ulla Wessels: Desire-Oriented Theories of Welfare 8: Jason Raibley and Valerie Tiberius: Value Fulfillment and the Prudential Good 9: Guy Fletcher: Objective List Theory 10: Gwen Bradford: Perfectionism 11: David McNaughton and Piers Rawling: Rossian Deontology 12: David Schmidtz: Moral Rights 13: Thomas E. Hill Jr.: Kantian Normative Ethics 14: Rahul Kumar: Contractualism 15: Christian Barry and Kerah Gordon-Solmon: The Doing and Allowing Distinction 16: Elizabeth Harman: Heroes and Jerks: Morality Beyond Requirement 17: S. Andrew Schroeder: Leaving (the Concept of) Deontology Behind 18: Paul Hurley: Against Consequentializing of Normative Theories 19: Julia Annas: Eudaimonist Virtue Ethics 20: Christine Swanton: Non-Eudaimonistic Virtue Ethics 21: Rachana Kamtekar and Shaun Nichols: On Debunking Virtue 22: Stephanie Collins: The Ethics of Care as a Normative Ethical Theory 23: Anita M. Superson: Feminist Ethics 24: David B Wong: Normative Relativism Part II. Methodology and Epistemic Issues 25: Gerald Dworkin: Theory, Practice, and Moral Reasoning 26: Antti Kauppinen and Jaakko Hirvelä: Reflective Equilibrium 27: Natalie Gold: Thought Experiments in Ethics Or: Has the Trolley Problem Gone off the Rails? 28: Amelia Hicks: Ignorance and Duty: The Objective/Subjective Distinction in Ethics 29: Sarah Stroud: Morality and Epistemic Rationality 30: Joe Horton and Jacob Ross: Evaluative Uncertainty Part III. Responsibility and Agency 31: John Martin Fischer: Responsibility and Control: New Work 32: Nomy Arpaly: On Being "Blameless Among One's Contemporaries": Moral Ignorance and Widespread Wrongdoing 33: Elinor Mason: Negligence, Recklessness, and Strict Liability 34: Andrew C. Khoury: Moral Luck Part IV. General Problems for Normative Theories 35: Garrett Cullity: Particularism and Anti-Theory 36: Gustaf Arrhenius: Population Ethics: A Challenge to the Project of Normative Ethics? 37: Zofia Stemplowska and Henrik D. Kugelberg: Partial Compliance Theory 38: Judith Lichtenberg: Some Individual Responsibilities Intertwined With Collectives 39: William Wringe: Collective Obligations 40: Jeff Sebo: Moral Circle Explosion 41: Tina Rulli: The Moral Status of Possible Persons