Developing Deontology

New Essays in Ethical Theory
Herausgegeben von Hooker, Brad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Developing Deontology consists of six new essays in ethicaltheory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essayconsiders concepts prominent in the development of deontologicalapproaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluablecontribution to that development.

Essays are contributed by Michael Smith, Philip Stratton-Lake,Ralph Wedgewood, David Owens, Peter Vallentyne, and ElizabethHarman - all leading contemporary moral philosophers
Each essay offers an original and previously unpublishedcontribution to the subject
A significant addition to the field for anyone with an interestin the development of deontology
The collection is edited by a leading philosophicalscholar

Produktdetails

• Ratio Special Issues .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 141mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9781444361940
• ISBN-10: 1444361945
• Artikelnr.: 35046770

Autorenporträt

Brad Hooker is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. He has been most closely associated with discussions of rule-consequentialism, although he has published papers on a wide variety of topics in ethical theory, including the idea that moral principles must be suitable for public acceptance. He is the author of Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality (2000) and the editor of Rationality, Rules, and Utility (1993), and Truth in Ethics (1997). Professor Hooker is an associate editor of Ratio and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Deontological Moral Obligations and Non
Welfarist Agent
Relative Values (Michael Smith) 2. Recalcitrant Pluralism (Philip Stratton
Lake) 3. Defending Double Effect (Ralph Wedgwood) 4. The Possibility of Consent (David Owens) 5. Enforcement Rights Against Non
Culpable Non
Just Intrusion (Peter Vallentyne) 6. Does Moral Ignorance Exculpate? (Elizabeth Harman) Index