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OSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Julia Annas: Why Virtue Ethics Does Not Have a Problem with Right Action
- 2: Brad Hooker: Must Kantian Contractualism and Rule Consequentialism Converge?
- 3: Earl Conee: Moral by Virtue of Virtue
- 4: Christian Miller: Lack of Virtue and Vice: Studies of Aggression and Their Implications for the Empirical Adequacy of Character
- 5: Jussi Suikkanen: Contractualism and the Conditional Fallacy
- 6: Matthew Hanser: Acting Wrongly by Trying
- 7: Eric Wiland: Rossian Deontology and the Possibility of Moral Expertise
- 8: Christian Piller: What is Goodness Good For?
- 9: Jennifer Hawkins: Well-Being: What Matters Beyond the Mental?
- 10: Bradford Cokelet: Virtue Ethics and the Demands of Social Morality
- 11: Shelly Kagan: An Introduction to Ill-Being
- Index
About the author
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).
Summary
Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches to normative ethics (including moral realism, constructivism, and expressivism) to questions of how we should act and live well. OSNE will be an essential resource for scholars and students working in moral philosophy.
