Morality and Action

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Moral and other realisms: some initial difficulties; 2. Abortion: identity and loss; 3. The right to threaten and the right to punish; 4. Reply to Brook; 5. Truth and explanation in ethics; 6. Reflection and the loss of moral knowledge: Williams on objectivity; 7. Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of doing and allowing; 9. Actions, intentions, and consequences: the doctrine of double effect; 9. Reply to Boyle's 'who is entitled to double effect?'; 10. The puzzle of the self-torturer; 11. Rationality and the human good; 12. Putting rationality in its place.

Summary

Warren Quinn was widely regarded as a moral philosopher of remarkable talent. This collection of his most important contributions to moral philosophy and the philosophy of action has been edited for publication by Philippa Foot.

Product details

• Authors: Philippa Foot, Warren Quinn, Quinn Warren
• Assisted by: Ernest Sosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.1994
• EAN: 9780521441643
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44164-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works