Conversations on ethics / [interviews by] Alex Voorhoeve.

Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgements objective? What reason do we have to do what is right and avoid doing what is wrong? In Conversations on Ethics, Alex Voorhoeve elicits answers to these questions from eleven outstanding philosophers and social scientists:...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Voorhoeve, Alex
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethics and intuitions
  • In search of the deep structure of morality / Frances Kamm
  • Each of us is just one among others / Peter Singer
  • Can we trust our intuitions? / Daniel Kahneman
  • Virtue and flourishing
  • The grammar of goodness / Philippa Foot
  • The illusion of self-sufficiency / Alasdair MacIntyre
  • Ethics and evolution
  • The origin of fairness / Ken Binmore
  • A pragmatic justification of morality / Allan Gibbard
  • Unity and dissent
  • The kingdom of ends on the cheap / T.M. Scanlon
  • A mistrustful animal / Bernard Williams
  • Love and morality
  • The necessity of love / Harry Frankfurt
  • Really seeing another / David Velleman.