Moral Theory

In this book, Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature. While her project maintains the fundamental features of the eudaimonistic virtue ethical framework—virtue, character, and well-being—she constructs these concepts from an empi..

This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides both a p..

Global Violence: Ethical and Political Issues provides readers with the analytical tools to better understand the suppositions that underlie the debates about such questions, as well as advances its own reasoned and informed ethical analyses of these topics. _x005F_x000D_ The book engages different ..

This edition of Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals combines the complete text of the Groundwork with a selection of key articles and a general editor's introduction...

The problem of moral luck is there is a contradiction in our common sense idea of moral responsibility. We believe that a person can become more blameworthy as a matter of luck. Nevertheless, the idea that luck affects moral responsibility contradicts another feature of our thinking: A person’s blam..

A fascinating and original examination of the main debate in Kant's moral theory: whether moral actions have worth only if they are carried out from duty. It will appeal to Kant scholars and anyone interested in moral theory...

This book brings together new essays that explore the connection between love and reasons. Love, Reason and Morality will be of interest to philosophers working on issues of normativity, meta-ethics and moral psychology, and especially those interested in the source of practical reasons and the role..

This book examines the notion of honor with an eye to dissecting its intellectual demise and with the aim of making a case for honor’s rehabilitation...

Moral Psychology..

Moral Psychology..

This book investigates our understanding of science-based arguments for moral realism and anti-realism in a comprehensive, empirically-focused, and meta-theoretical way...

This collection of original essays by leading metaethicists will advance the ongoing debates about various forms of moral skepticism by drawing on recent innovative work on moral disagreement, moral knowledge and justification, moral error theory, moral fictionalism, moral phenomenology, moral psych..