Developing Deontology New Essays in Ethical Theory

Hooker, Brad

ISBN 10: 1444361945 / ISBN 13: 9781444361940

Verlag: Blackwell Pub, 2012

Beschreibung

1st edition. 136 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers __1444361945

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Developing Deontology New Essays in Ethical Theory
• Verlag: Blackwell Pub
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1444361945
• ISBN-13: 9781444361940
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,2 Kilogramm

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Developing Deontology consists of six new essays in ethical theory by leading contemporary moral philosophers. Each essay considers concepts prominent in the development of deontological approaches to ethics, and these essays offer an invaluable contribution to that development.

• Essays are contributed by Michael Smith, Philip Stratton-Lake, Ralph Wedgewood, David Owens, Peter Vallentyne, and Elizabeth Harman - all leading contemporary moral philosophers
• Each essay offers an original and previously unpublished contribution to the subject
• A significant addition to the field for anyone with an interest in the development of deontology
• The collection is edited by a leading philosophical scholar

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Brad Hooker is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. He has been most closely associated with discussions of rule-consequentialism, although he has published papers on a wide variety of topics in ethical theory, including the idea that moral principles must be suitable for public acceptance. He is the author of Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist Theory of Morality (2000) and the editor of Rationality, Rules, and Utility (1993), and Truth in Ethics (1997). Professor Hooker is an associate editor of Ratio and the editor-in-chief of Utilitas.