Ethical Theory 2

• Other new ORP volumes published in the first half of the year are Crisp and Slote, Virtue Ethics; Mele, The Philosophy of Action; and Mellor and Oliver, Properties.

Readership: Undergraduates and graduate students studying moral philosophy and ethical theory. Scholars undertaking research in the field of moral philosophy and general readers with an interest in modern ethics.

Edited by James Rachels, University Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Introduction
1: W. D. Ross: What Makes Action Right?
2: J. J. C. Smart: Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism
3: Robert M. Adams: Motive Utilitarianism
4: James Cargile: On Consequentialism
5: John Rawls: Justice as Fairness
6: T. M. Scanlon: Contractualism and Utilitarianism
7: David Gauthier: Why Contractarianism?
8: J. L. Mackie: Can There be a Right-Based Moral Theory?
9: Derek Parfit: Later Selves and Moral Principles
10: Bernard Williams: Persons, Character, and Morality
11: Edmund Pincoffs: Quandary Ethics
12: Gregory W. Trianosky: Supererogation, Wrongdoing, and Vice
13: Peter Railton: Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality
14: Onora O'Neill: Consistency in Action
15: Christine M. Korsgaard: The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil
16: Thomas Nagel: The Fragmentation of Value
Notes on the Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index