Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple
ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on …

Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four
philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries …

Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around
which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process …

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise
of Desire takes the side of appetite. Acting for moral reasons, acting in a praiseworthy …

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what
reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our …

Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this
question in a compelling manner—along with the moral skepticism and ethical confusion …

Sometimes our intentions and beliefs exhibit a structure that proves us to be irrational. The
Normativity of Rationality is concerned with the question of whether we ought to avoid such …

Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in
moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has …

Moral Realism is a systematic defence of the idea that there are objective moral standards.
In the tradition of Plato and GE Moore, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that there are moral …

This volume collects some of John McDowell's influential papers, written at various times
over the last two decades. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation …