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.

Notes on Editors and Contributors vii Introduction 1Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology 1 Moral Realism 17Michael Smith 2 Relativism 43Simon Blackburn 3 Moral Agreement 59Derek Parfit 4 Divine Command Theory 81Philip L. Quinn 5 Moral Intuition 103Jeff McMahan Part II Factual Background of Ethics 6 Ethics and Evolution 123Richard Joyce 7 Psychological Egoism 148Elliott Sober 8 The Science of Ethics 169Ron Mallon and John M. Doris 9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197Ingmar Persson Part III Normative Ethics 10 Act-Utilitarianism 221R.G. Frey 11 Rule-Consequentialism 238Brad Hooker 12 Nonconsequentialism 261F.M. Kamm 13 Intuitionism 287David McNaughton and Piers Rawling 14 Kantianism 311Thomas E. Hill Jr 15 Contractarianism 332Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 16 Rights 354L.W. Sumner 17 Libertarianism 373Jan Narveson 18 Virtue Ethics 394Michael Slote 19 Capability Ethics 412Ingrid Robeyns 20 Feminist Ethics 433Alison M. Jaggar 21 Continental Ethics 461William R. Schroeder Index 487

Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory has been thoroughly reorganized and revised, with the inclusion of an additional five new essays and major modification of nearly all of the remaining essays. Ranging from moral realism to virtue ethics, this superb volume presents a complete state-of-the-art survey of ethical theory. Written by an international team of leading moral philosophers, each of the 21 papers develops the main tenets, arguments, themes, and problems of the main normative and meta-ethical philosophical outlooks. Essays new to this edition cover evolution and ethics, capability ethics, virtues and consequences, and challenges facing virtue ethics. This volume is one of the most ambitious and authoritative surveys of ethical theory available today. It serves as a groundbreaking resource as well as a comprehensive guide for both students and scholars alike.

“This outstanding collection contains really valuable entries by a great many leading lights in the field. An extremely useful resource for anyone wanting to acquaint themselves with the central issues in ethical theory today.” —Russ Shafer-Landau, University of Wisconsin-Madison Praise for the First Edition "The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory is, for its size, perhaps the best single-volume resource guide to contemporary ethical theory." —Robert B. Louden, APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Spring 2001 “Written by distinguished philosophical experts, these pieces address a full range of issues in ethical and meta-ethical theory, as well as giving a considered voice to the various defenders of ethical anti-theory. As a whole they testify to and exemplify the current vibrancy and richness of work in ethical theory.” —David Archard, Queen’s University Belfast “For students, this Guide provides helpful introductions to themes and topics which they are to study in more detail, and lucid surveys of other aspects of ethical theory. It will also be read with profit by academics unfamiliar with the field; some of the papers are not just guides, but original contributions, to the subject.” —Antony Duff, University of Stirling and University of Minnesota “The Guide provides a wide-ranging survey of the major topics in contemporary ethical theory and includes a good amount of new and important work. It should be of use to anyone wanting acquaintance with the subject in its current state.” —Barbara Herman, University of California at Los Angeles