Table Of ContentEthics and Moral Philosophy
Studies in Moral Philosophy
Series Editor
Thom Brooks (Newcastle University)
Editorial Board
Chrisoula Andreou (University of Utah)
Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley)
Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)
Fabian Freyenhagen (University of Essex)
Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews)
Ian Shapiro (Yale University)
VOLUME 1
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Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Edited by
Thom Brooks
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LEIDEN • BOSTON
2011
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Ethics and moral philosophy / edited by Thom Brooks.
p. cm. -- (Studies in moral philosophy ; v. 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-20342-6 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Ethics. I. Brooks, Thom.
BJ21.E855 2011
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CONTENTS
Notes on Previous Publication.................................................................vii
List of Contributors....................................................................................ix
Introduction .................................................................................................1
PART I
PRACTICAL REASON
Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason ...............................................11
Chrisoula Andreou
Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to
Reasons? .................................................................................................25
John Broome
Practical Reason, Value and Action ........................................................57
Alison Hills
Normativity and Practical Judgement ....................................................77
Onora O’Neill
PART II
PARTICULARISM
Ethics Without Reasons? ..........................................................................95
Roger Crisp
Defending the Right ................................................................................107
Jonathan Dancy
PART III
MORAL REALISM
Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument ...........125
Russ Shafer-Landau
Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience ...............................................147
Michael Ridge
vi contents
PART IV
VIRTUE ETHICS
Han Feizi’s Criticism of Confucianism and Its Implications
for Virtue Ethics ..................................................................................173
Eric L. Hutton
Aristotelian Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of Ethical
Character ..............................................................................................207
Maria W. Merritt
Good but Not Required?—Assessing the Demands
of Kantian Ethics .................................................................................237
Jens Timmermann
Virtue, Character and Situation .............................................................259
Jonathan Webber
PART V
ETHICS AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources ....................287
Timothy Hall
Time-Relative Interests and Abortion ..................................................317
S. Matthew Liao
The Basis of Human Moral Status .........................................................335
S. Matthew Liao
The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem ......................................357
Martin Peterson
Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands .........................................................371
William Sin
Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philosophy ............385
Alison Stone
Bibliography .............................................................................................409
Index .........................................................................................................417
NOTES ON PREVIOUS PUBLICATION
Chrisoula Andreou, ‘Standards, Advice, and Practical Reason’, Journal
of Moral Philosophy 3(1) (2006): 57–67.
John Broome, ‘Does Rationality Consist in Responding Correctly to
Reasons?’ Journal of Moral Philosophy 4(3) (2007): 349–74.
Alison Hills, ‘Practical Reason, Value and Action’, Journal of Moral Phi-
losophy 4(3) (2007): 375–92.
Onora O’Neill, ‘Normativity and Practical Judgement’, Journal of Moral
Philosophy 4(3) (2007): 393–405.
Roger Crisp, ‘Ethics Without Reasons?’ Journal of Moral Philosophy
4(1) (2007): 40-49.
Jonathan Dancy, ‘Defending the Right’, Journal of Moral Philosophy
4(1) (2007): 85–98.
Russ Shafer-Landau, ‘Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory
Argument’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 4(3) (2007): 311–29.
Michael Ridge, ‘Anti-Reductionism and Supervenience’, Journal of
Moral Philosophy 4(3) (2007): 330-48.
Eric Hutton, ‘Han Feizi’s Criticism of Confucianism and Its Implica-
tions for Virtue Ethics’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 5(3) (2008):
423–53.
Maria W. Merritt, ‘Aristotelian Virtue and the Interpersonal Aspect of
Ethical Character’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 6(1) (2009): 23–49.
Jens Timmermann, ‘Good but Not Required?—Assessing the Demands
of Kantian Ethics’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 2(1) (2005): 9–27.
Jonathan Webber, ‘Virtue, Character and Situation’, Journal of Moral
Philosophy 3(2) (2006): 193–213.
viii notes on previous publication
Timothy Hall, ‘Doing Harm, Allowing Harm, and Denying Resources’,
Journal of Moral Philosophy 5(1) (2008): 50–76.
S. Matthew Liao, ‘Time-Relative Interests and Abortion’, Journal of
Moral Philosophy 4(2) (2007): 242–56.
S. Matthew Liao, ‘The Basis of Human Moral Status’, Journal of Moral
Philosophy 7(2) (2010): 159–79.
Martin Peterson, ‘The Mixed Solution to the Number Problem’, Journal
of Moral Philosophy 6(2) (2009): 166–77.
William Sin, ‘Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands’, Journal of Moral Phi-
losophy 7(1) (2010): 3–15.
Alison Stone, ‘Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Philoso-
phy’, Journal of Moral Philosophy 1(2) (2004): 135–53.
List of Contributors
Chrisoula Andreou is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the
university of utah.
Thom brooks is reader in Political and Legal Philosophy at newcastle
university. He is editor and founder of the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
John broome is White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and fellow of
Corpus Christi College at the university of oxford.
roger Crisp is Professor of Philosophy and fellow of st Anne’s College
at the university of oxford.
Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at both the university of
reading and the university of texas-Austin.
timothy Hall is Associate Professor in Philosophy at oberlin College.
Alison Hills is Lecturer in Philosophy and fellow of st John’s College at
the university of oxford.
Eric Hutton is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the university of
utah.
s. Matthew Liao is Associate Professor in the Center for bioethics at
new York university.
Maria W. Merritt is Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins berman
institute of bioethics.
onora o’neill is Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and former Principle
of newham College at the university of Cambridge. baroness o’neill
of bengarve is a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.
Martin Peterson is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Eindhoven
university of technology.
