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Virtues and Reasons
Philippa Foot and Moral Theory: Essays in Honour of Philippa Foot
Edited by Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence, and Warren Quinn
362 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-823793-8
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Paperback
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09 April 1998
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- Outstanding line-up of contributors.
- 10 out of 12 chapters unavailable elsewhere.
- Covers many of the hottest topics in contemporary ethical theory.
- A tribute to an outstanding moral philosopher.
Philippa Foot is one of the most original and widely respected philosophers of recent years; her work has exerted a lasting influence on the development of moral philosophy. In tribute to her, twelve eminent philosophers from both sides of the Atlantic offer essays exploring the various topics in moral philosophy to which she has made a distinctive contribution. There are chapters on virtue ethics, naturalism, non-cognitivism, relativism, categorical requirements, and the role of rationality in morality.
Virtues and Reasons offers at the same time an impressive demonstration of Professor Foot's continuing influence, and a selection of
outstanding work in contemporary moral philosophy.
'to be welcomed for more reasons than one. Most obviously, it is fitting that Foot's salutary influence on moral theory should be celebrated by such a fine set of papers . . . [they] have much to offer' Michael Smith, Times Literary SupplementReadership: Scholars and advanced students of moral philosophy.
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Edited by Rosalind Hursthouse, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University, UK, Gavin Lawrence, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles, and Warren Quinn, late Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
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"A short review cannot hope to do justice to all the interesting (and controversial) material to be found in these dedicatory essays." - Michael Slote, Philosophical Quarterly
"To be welcomed for more reasons than one. Most obviously, it is fitting that Foot's salutary influence on moral theory should be celebrated by such a fine set of papers ... the papers in the volume have much to offer." - Times Literary Supplement
"The twelve contributors include many distinguished philosphers; their varied contributions go to a set of themes distilled in Foot's own collection Virtues and Vices ... still a great pleasure to read, with its unfailing clear-headedness, its harmony of conviction and modesty, and the honest and unfussy directness of its arguments. Moreover, it is still philosophically instructive and provocative; as the essays in this Festschrift show." - Margaret Urban Walker, Fordham University, International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No.2, Issue No. 146, June 1997
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G. E. M. Anscombe: Practical Inference
Simon Blackburn: The Flight to Reality
Rosalind Hursthouse: Applying Virtue Ethics
Anthony Kenny: Philippa Foot on Double Effect
Gavin Lawrence: The Rationality of Morality
John McDowell: Two Sorts of Naturalism
Warren Quinn: Putting Rationality in its Place
David Sachs: Notes on Unfairly Gaining More: Pleonexia
T. M. Scanlon: Fear of Relativism
Michael Thompson: The Representation of Life
David Wiggins: Categorical Requirements: Kant and Hume on the Idea of Duty
Bernard Williams: Acts and Omissions, Doing and Not-Doing
Bibliography of Works by Philippa Foot
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