LaFollette Hugh - The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory

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Praise forThe Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Second Edition

This outstanding collection contains really valuable entries by a great many leading lights in the field. An extremely useful resource for anyone wanting to acquaint themselves with the central issues in ethical theory today.

Russ Shafer-Landau, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Praise for the First Edition

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.

Written by distinguished philosophical experts, these pieces address a full range of issues in ethical and metaethical theory, as well as giving a considered voice to the various defenders of ethical antitheory. As a whole they testify to and exemplify the current vibrancy and richness of work in ethical theory.

David Archard, Queens University Belfast

For students, this Guide provides helpful introductions to themes and topics which they are to study in more detail and lucid surveys of other aspects of ethical theory. It will also be read with profit by academics unfamiliar with the field; some of the papers are not just guides but original contributions to the subject.

Antony Duff, University of Stirling and University of Minnesota

The Guide provides a wide-ranging survey of the major topics in contemporary ethical theory and includes a good amount of new and important work. It should be of use to anyone wanting acquaintance with the subject in its current state.

Barbara Herman, University of California at Los Angeles

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Series Editor: Steven M. Cahn, City University of New York Graduate School

Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers, the Blackwell Philosophy Guides create a groundbreaking student resource a complete critical survey of the central themes and issues of philosophy today. Focusing and advancing key arguments throughout, each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic. Accordingly, these volumes will be a valuable resource for a broad range of students and readers, including professional philosophers.

This edition first published 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Blackwell guide to ethical theory. Second edition / edited by Hugh LaFollette, Ingmar Persson.

pages cm. (Blackwell philosophy guides ; 2)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4443-3009-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ethics. I. LaFollette, Hugh, 1948 II. Persson, Ingmar.

BJ1012.B536 2013

171dc23

2012042778

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Caspar David Friedrich, Evening, c.1820. State Museum, Hanover / akg-images