Mary Anne Warren explores a theoretical question which lies at the heart of practical ethics:
what are the criteria for having moral status? In other words, what are the criteria for being …

Many people believe that all human beings have the same basic, moral status, that is, that
they are all rightholders. For example, this belief is encapsulated in the Universal …

In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as
illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non …

This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical
problems. Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in …

This book critiques contemporary trends in ethical theory, including the deontological
tradition dating back to Kant, the teleological tradition of the utilitarians, the analytic …

Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and
how, if at all, it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed …

It is a commonplace that 'autonomy'has several different senses in contemporary moral and
political discussion. The term's original meaning was political: a right assumed by states to …

In Morality Bernard Williams confronts the problems of writing moral philosophy, and offers a
stimulating alternative to more systematic accounts which seem nevertheless to have left all …

Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, these fourteen
essays, three of them previously unpublished, reconfirm Joel Feinberg's leading position in …

IT is harder morally to justify letting somebody die a slow and ugly death, dehumanized, than
it is to justify helping him to escape from such misery. This is the case at least in any code of …