Chappell - Values and virtues: aristotelianism in contemporary ethics

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Timothy Chappell

Christopher Miles Coope

Linda Zagzebski

Fred D. Miller, Jun.

R. A. Duff

Hallvard J. Fossheim

Adam Morton

Timothy Chappell

Paul Russell

Christine Swanton

Karen Stohr

Sandrine Berges

Johan Brnnmark

Theodore Scaltsas

Talbot Brewer

Christopher Miles Coope is Senior Fellow in the School of Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He has published on ethics and applied ethics; one recent paper is Peter Singer in Retrospect, Philosophical Quarterly, 2003. His book Worth and Welfare in the Controversy over Abortion, and a paper in Philosophy (Death Sentences), will appear in 2006.

Linda Zagzebski is Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to several edited books, she is the author of Divine Motivation Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Virtues of the Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (Oxford University Press, 1991), as well as numerous articles and book chapters in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of religion. She is President of the Society of Christian Philosophers and past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Fred D. Miller, Jun. is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He has been a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, and the University of Waterloo, and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, the Institute for the Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Jesus College, Oxford, and the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at St Andrews University. He was President of the Society of Ancient Greek Philosophy from 1998 until 2004. He is the author of Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotles Politics (Oxford University Press, 1995), and co-editor of A Companion to Aristotles Politics (Blackwell, 1991) and A History of the Philosophy of Law from the Ancient Greeks to the Scholastics (Springer Kluwer, 2006).

R. A. Duff is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, where he has taught since 1970. His paper in this collection is part of a larger project on the character and conditions of criminal liability. He has published Trials and Punishments (Cambridge University Press, 1986), Intention, Agency and Criminal Liability (Blackwell, 1990); Criminal Attempts (Oxford University Press, 1996), and Punishment, Communication and Community (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Hallvard J. Fossheim is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oslo. His research focuses primarily on Plato and Aristotle.

Adam Morton holds the Canada Research Chair in epistemology and decision theory at the University of Alberta. His current work concerns the intelligent reaction to limitations in ones reasoning powers: how to think about the fact that your head is only human sized. He has also taught at Princeton, Ottawa, Bristol, and Oklahoma. His most recent books are The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics, and On Evil (both Routledge).

Timothy Chappell is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University. He has also taught at the Universities of East Anglia, Manchester, Dundee, and Oxford, and has held visiting positions at the Universities of British Columbia, Edinburgh, and St Andrews. His other books are Aristotle and Augustine on Freedom