Explorations in Ethics

Explorations in Ethics is a collection of essays with a speculative bent. Its twelve contributors attempt to take ethics thinking in new directions. Ethics is fundamentally a speculative discipline. We sometimes lose sight of that because of our current scholarly practices, which include reliance on a set of traditional works in ethics, deferring to the scholarly literature, drawing from the evidential sources afforded us. This volume breaks the mold. It is committed, first and foremost, to exploring new ground in a methodologically sound way whilst respecting and building on the literature where needed. The contributors range from world renowned ethicists to early-career scholars. The ethical standpoints represented are various and the overall aim of this collection is to stimulate fresh thinking.

1. Introduction


 

3.  Realism, Objectivity, and Evaluation

 

4. The Modal Conception of Ideal Rational Agents: Objectively Ideal Not Merely Subjectively Ideal, Advisors Not Exemplars, Agentially Concerned Not Agentially Indifferent, Social Not Solitary, Self-and-Other-Regarding Not Wholly Self-Regarding

 

5. To Boldly Go Where No Man, or Woman, has Gone Before! 

 

6. Well-Being as Harmony

 

7. On Moral Architecture

 

8. The Central Difficulty of the Moral Life

 

9. Desert-Sensitivity and Moral Evaluation

 

10. Interpersonal Invisibility and the Recognition of Other Persons

 

11. Censure, Sanction, and the Moral Psychology of Resentment and Punitiveness

 

12. A Natural Law Approach to Biomedical Ethics

 

13. The Corruptions of Music