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Moral Discourse and Practice
Some Philosophical Approaches

Edited by Stephen Darwall, Allan Gibbard, and Peter Railton

Price: £32.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509669-9
Publication date: 20 March 1997
432 pages, 234x165 mm
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Readership: Moral Philosophy, Contemporary Ethical Theory, Meta-Ethics (advanced undergraduate, graduate)

Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Toward Fin de Siecle Ethics: Some Trends , Darwall, Gibbard, Railton
II. PROBLEMS
2. From Principia Ethica , G. E. Moore
3. Lecture on Ethics , Ludwig Wittgenstein
4. The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms , Charles Stevenson
5. Ethics and Observation , Gilbert Harman
6. From Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong , J. L. Mackie
III. METAETHICS
A. Realism
7. How to be a Moral Realist , Richard Boyd
8. Moral Realism , Peter Railton
B. ANTIREALISM
9. How to Be an Ethical Anti-Realist , Simon Blackburn
10. Wise Choices, Apt Feelings , Allan Gibbard
C. SENSIBILITY THEORIES
11. Value and Secondary Qualities , John McDowell
13. A Sensible Subjectivism? , David Wiggins
D. CONSTRUCTIVISM
14. Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory , John Rawls
15. Contractualism and Utilitarianism , T. M. Scanlon
16. Discourse Ethics: Notes on a Program of Philosophical Justification , Jurgen Habermas
IV. REASONS, MOTIVES, AND THE DEMANDS OF MORALITY
17. Reasons, Motives, and the Demands of Morality: An Introduction , Stephen Darwall
18. Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives , Philippa Foot
19. From The Possibility of Altruism , Thomas Nagel
20. From Morals By Agreement , David Gauthier
21. Internal and External Reasons , Bernard Williams
22. Skepticism About Practical Reason , Christine Korsgaard
23. The Sources of Normativity , Christine Korsgaard
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Edited by Stephen Darwall,
Allan Gibbard, and
Peter Railton, all in the Philosophy Department, all at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor


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Ethics & moral philosophy
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

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