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368

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Cover of: Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory
Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory
2009, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
Cover of: Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory
Contemporary Debates in Moral Theory
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
in English
Cover of: Contemporary debates in moral theory
Contemporary debates in moral theory
2005, Blackwell Pub., Wiley-Interscience, Wiley-Blackwell
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Table of Contents

Part I: Normative theory
Is the rightness of action determined by the value of consequences?
The consequentialist perspective / William Shaw
Against maximizing act-consequentialism / Peter Vallentyne
Part II: Reasons with demands : rethinking rightness / Alastair Norcross
Can contract theory ground morality?
Moral contractarianism as a foundation for interpersonal morality / Samuel Freeman
Can contract theory ground morality? / Philip Pettit
Are the virtues the proper starting point for ethical theory?
Are virtues the proper starting point for morality? / Rosalind Hursthouse
Virtue theory / Julia Driver
Reason and motivation
Are moral requirements derived from reason?
Reason, sentiment, and categorical imperatives / Samuel J. Kerstein
Must we weep for sentimentalism? / Simon Blackburn
Is motivation internal to moral judgment?
How do moral judgments motivate? / Sigrun Svavarsdottir
Moral motivation / R. Jay Wallace
Part III: Moral facts and explanations
Is morality fully factual?
Moral factualism / Peter Railton
Morality without moral facts / Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons
Do moral facts and properties explain anything?
Moral explanations defended / Nicholas L. Sturgeon
Moral epistemology and the because constraint / Nick Zangwill
Are there general moral principles?
Ethical generality and moral judgment / Robert Audi
Defending moral particularism / Mark Lance and Margaret O. Little.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Malden, MA
Series
Contemporary debates in philosophy

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Dewey Decimal Class
171
Library of Congress
BJ1012 .C6572 2005, BJ1012.C6572 2005, BJ1012 .C6572 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
368

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OL3397111M
Internet Archive
contemporarydeba00drei
ISBN 10
1405101784, 1405101792
ISBN 13
9781405101783, 9781405101790
LCCN
2005009843
OCLC/WorldCat
58975748
Library Thing
1242829
Goodreads
2543709
1584130

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