This volume contains ten chapters, each of which takes up a different question in contemporary moral or political philosophy. The volume has three parts: meta-ethics, issues in freedom and autonomy, and contemporary political philosophy. In the meta-ethical section, the chapters address issues concerning acts and their value, the plausibility of aggregation and counting with respect to the value of human lives, and the role of moral character in causing and explaining moral behavior. In the second section, the chapters take up questions about the connection between moral imagination and a plausible account of integrity, the connection between autonomy and rights to property, and the difficulties facing internalist accounts of autonomy. In the final section, the chapters address issues concerning feminist critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, the limits of liberalism and communitarianism, the importance of understanding Rawls's social contract as a contract for institutions, and the morality of nationalist movements. These chapters reflect a cross-section of the issues concerning value that are of contemporary scholarly interest in Canada and the United States.
Table of Contents: Robert GINSBERG: Foreword. Preface. 1. Samantha BRENNAN, Tracy ISAACS, Michael MILDE: Introduction. PART I. THE META-ETHICS OF VALUE. 2. Tracy ISAACS: Acts and Value. 3. Samantha BRENNAN: Moral Rights and Moral Math: Three Arguments against Aggregation. 4. Paul M. PIETROSKI: Moral Causation. PART II. FREEDOM, AUTONOMY, AND INTEGRITY. 5. Susan DIMOCK: Personal Autonomy, Freedom of Action, and Coercion. 6. Ann LEVEY: Liberalism, Property, and Freedom. 7. Susan E. BABBITT: Personal Integrity, Politics, and Moral Imagination. PART III. LIBERALISM, VALUES, AND THE STATE. 8. Karen WENDLING: Two Concepts of Rawls. 9. Charles W. MILLS: Carnal Knowledges: Beyond Rawls and Sandel. 10. Michael MILDE: Justice, Gender, the Family, and the Practice of Political Philosophy. 11. Wayne NORMAN: Prelude to a Liberal Morality of Nationalism. Index.
Table of Contents: Robert GINSBERG: Foreword. Preface. 1. Samantha BRENNAN, Tracy ISAACS, Michael MILDE: Introduction. PART I. THE META-ETHICS OF VALUE. 2. Tracy ISAACS: Acts and Value. 3. Samantha BRENNAN: Moral Rights and Moral Math: Three Arguments against Aggregation. 4. Paul M. PIETROSKI: Moral Causation. PART II. FREEDOM, AUTONOMY, AND INTEGRITY. 5. Susan DIMOCK: Personal Autonomy, Freedom of Action, and Coercion. 6. Ann LEVEY: Liberalism, Property, and Freedom. 7. Susan E. BABBITT: Personal Integrity, Politics, and Moral Imagination. PART III. LIBERALISM, VALUES, AND THE STATE. 8. Karen WENDLING: Two Concepts of Rawls. 9. Charles W. MILLS: Carnal Knowledges: Beyond Rawls and Sandel. 10. Michael MILDE: Justice, Gender, the Family, and the Practice of Political Philosophy. 11. Wayne NORMAN: Prelude to a Liberal Morality of Nationalism. Index.