Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers.

Table of Contents

• Notes on Editors and Contributors
• Introduction - Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson
• Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology
• 1 Moral Realism - Michael Smith
• 2 Relativism - Simon Blackburn
• 3 Moral Agreement - Derek Parfi t
• 4 Divine Command Theory - Philip L. Quinn
• 5 Moral Intuition - Jeff McMahan
• Part II Factual Background of Ethics
• 6 Ethics and Evolution - Richard Joyce
• 7 Psychological Egoism - Elliott Sober
• 8 The Science of Ethics - Ron Mallon and John M. Doris
• 9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality - Ingmar Persson
• Part III Normative Ethics
• 10 Act-Utilitarianism - R.G. Frey
• 11 Rule-Consequentialism - Brad Hooker
• 12 Nonconsequentialism - F.M. Kamm
• 13 Intuitionism - David McNaughton and Piers Rawling
• 14 Kantianism - Thomas E. Hill Jr
• 15 Contractarianism - Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
• 16 Rights - L.W. Sumner
• 17 Libertarianism - Jan Narveson
• 18 Virtue Ethics - Michael Slote
• 19 Capability Ethics - Ingrid Robeyns
• 20 Feminist Ethics - Alison M. Jaggar
• 21 Continental Ethics - William R. Schroeder