The Routledge Companion to Ethics

Part I History; Chapter 1 Ethical thought in China, Yang Xiao; Chapter 2 Ethical Thought in India, Stephen R. L. Clark; Chapter 3 Socrates and Plato, Richard Kraut; Chapter 4 Aristotle, Christopher Taylor; Chapter 5 Later Ancient Ethics, A. A. Long; Chapter 6 The Arabic Tradition, Peter Adamson; Chapter 7 Early Modern Natural Law, Knud Haakonssen; Chapter 8 Hobbes, Bernard Gert; Chapter 9 Ethics and Reason, Michael LeBuffe; Chapter 10 Ethics and Sentiment, Michael B. Gill; Chapter 11 Hume, James A. Harris; Chapter 12 Adam Smith, Craig Smith; Chapter 13 Utilitarianism to Bentham, Frederick Rosen; Chapter 14 Kant, Thomas E. Hill Jr; Chapter 15 Hegel, Kenneth R. Westphal; Chapter 16 John Stuart Mill, Henry West; Chapter 17 Sidgwick, Green, and Bradley, T. H. Irwin; Chapter 18 Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark; Chapter 19 Pragmatist Moral Philosophy, Alan J. Ryan; Chapter 20 Existentialism, Jonathan Webber; Chapter 21 Heidegger, Stephen Mulhall; Part II Meta-Ethics; Chapter 22 Ethics, Science, and Religion, Simon Blackburn; Chapter 23 Freedom and Responsibility, Randolph Clarke; Chapter 24 Reasons for Action, Robert Audi; Chapter 25 The Open Question Argument, Thomas Baldwin; Chapter 26 Realism and its Alternatives, Peter Railton; Chapter 27 Non-Cognitivism, Alexander Miller; Chapter 28 Error Theory and Fictionalism, Nadeem J. Z. Hussain; Chapter 29 Cognitivism Without Realism, Andrew Fisher; Chapter 30 Relativism, Nicholas L. Sturgeon; Part III Ideas and Methods From Outside Ethics; Chapter 31 Social Anthropology, James Laidlaw; Chapter 32 Ethics and Psychology, Jesse Prinz; Chapter 33 Biology, Michael Ruse; Chapter 34 Formal Methods in Ethics, Erik Carlson; Chapter 35 Ethics and Law, John Gardner; Part IV Perspectives in Ethics; Chapter 36 Reasons, Values, and Morality, Simon Robertson; Chapter 37 Consequentialism, Brad Hooker; Chapter 38 Contemporary Kantian Ethics, Andrews Reath; Chapter 39 Ethical Intuitionism, Philip Stratton-Lake; Chapter 40 Virtue Ethics, Michael

John Skorupski is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His books include Ethical Explorations (1999) and The Domain of Reasons (forthcoming in 2010).

'This fine collection merits a place in every university, college, and high school library for its invaluable articles covering a very broad range of topics in ethics[.] ... With its remarkable clarity of writing and its very highly qualified contributors, this volume is must reading for anyone interested in the latest developments in these important areas of thought and practice. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above.' - CHOICE

'The Routledge Companion to Ethics is a great resource for students interested in ethics and will also make a first-rate reference volume for philosophers working in ethics. It covers an impressive range of topics, going well beyond entries on standard normative ethical theories and metaethical approaches to normativity. The history of ethics is particularly well represented and this volume is sure to set a very high standard for future collections.' - Julia Driver, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

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'This volume amply satisfies its remarkably ambitious objectives. Its coverage of the field of ethics is as broad as feasible, while its in-depth discussions of various topics within that field are characteristically incisive, informative, and at the cutting edge of contemporary thinking.' - Richard Joyce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand