Book Information

The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

Edited by: HUGH LAFOLLETTE (University of South Florida )

Series: Blackwell Philosophy Guides

Announcement

Now Available Online - visit Blackwell Reference Online at www.blackwellreference.com for more details.

Reviews

"The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory is, for its size, perhaps the best single-volume resource guide to contemporary ethical theory." Robert B. Louden, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring 2001.

Description

Ranging from moral realism to virtue ethics, this superb volume presents a complete state-of-the-art survey of ethical theory. Written by an international assembly of leading moral philosophers, each of the twenty-one newly-commissioned papers develop the main tenets, arguments, themes, and problems of the main normative and meta-ethical philosophical outlooks.

TopTable of Contents

General Introduction.
Part I: Meta-Ethics.
The status of ethics.
What grounds ethical claims?
Against ethical theory.
Psychology and ethics.
Part II: Normative Ethics.
Consequentialism.
Deontology.
Alternative views.
Index.

TopAbout the Author

Hugh LaFollette is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is author of The Practice of Ethics (Blackwell, 2007) and Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality (Blackwell, 1995), co-author of Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (1996), and editor of several other volumes, including Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (third edition, Blackwell, 2007).