BRAD HOOKER: Introduction
1: JOHN McDOWELL: Acting in the Light of a Fact
2: CONSTANTINE SANDIS: Can Action Explanations Ever Be
Non-Factive?
3: MICHAEL SMITH: The Ideal of Orthonomous Action, or the How and
Why of Buck-Passing
4: PHILIP STRATTON-LAKE: Dancy on Buck Passing
5: ROGER CRISP: Are Egoism and Consequentialism Self-Refuting?
6: MARGARET OLIVIA LITTLE: In Defence of Non-deontic Reasons
7: R. JAY WALLACE: The Deontic Structure of Morality
8: STEPHEN DARWALL: Morality and Principle
9: DAVID BAKHURST: Moral Particularism: Ethical Not
Metaphysical?
10: A. W. PRICE: A Quietist Particularism
11: DAVID McNAUGHTON AND PIERS RAWLING: Contours of the Practical
Landscape
12: SEAN MCKEEVER AND MICHAEL RIDGE: Why Holists Should Love
Organic Unities
13: JOHN BROOME: Practical Reasoning and Inference
14: BART STREUMER: Are There Really No Irreducibly Normative
Properties?
Index
Over the last 40 years, Jonathan Dancy has become one of his
generation's most influential moral philosophers. He has authored
five books and edited or co-edited five others. His work has shaped
developments in metaethics, normative ethics, and the philosophy of
action. In this volume, an internationally-renowned cast of
contributors get to grips with these developments. In the course of
his distinguished career, Dancy has held permanent posts at Keele,
Reading,
and Texas, and visiting appointments at a number of universities,
including Pittsburgh and Oxford. David Bakhurst is John and Ella G.
Charlton Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada. He
is
the author of Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy
(CUP, 1991) and The Formation of Reason (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011),
and co-editor of The Social Self (with Christine Sypnowich; Sage,
1995) and Jerome Bruner: Language, Culture, Self (with Stuart
Shanker; Sage, 2001). Margaret Olivia Little is Director of the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and Associate
Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She is co-editor
of
Moral Particularism (with Brad Hooker; OUP, 2000). Brad Hooker is
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He is the
author of Ideal Code, Real World (OUP, 2000), and editor of
Developing Deontology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); Truth
in Ethics (Blackwell, 1996); and Rationality, Rules, and Utility:
New Essays on the Moral Philosophy of Richard Brandt (Westview
Press, 1993). He has also co-edited several volumes, including
Moral Particularism (with Margaret Olivia Little; OUP, 2000) and
Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin (with
Roger Crisp; OUP, 2000).
a collection of excellent essays . . . [which] follows Dancy's work in spanning traditional boundaries between the various philosophical disciplines that take an interest in practical reasons: the philosophy of mind/action, moral philosophy, and meta-ethics.
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