Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue

ISBN-13: 9783319912554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 317 str.

John Hacker-Wright

Opis

This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot's later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics.

Recenzje

"It is no understatement to say that Hacker-Wright's collection lifts up critical engagement with Foot's naturalism to an entirely new level and therefore represents required reading for anyone who intends to work on it in the future." (Sascha Settegast, Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Vol. 2, 2019)

Spis treści

1

Introduction: From Natural Goodness to Morality

John Hacker-Wright

 

2

The Grammar of Goodness in Foot’s Ethical Naturalism

Rosalind Hursthouse

 

3

How to be an Ethical Naturalist

Jennifer A. Frey

 

4

Practically Self-Conscious Life

Matthias Haase

 

5

Traditional Naturalism

Kristina Gehrman

 

6

“Why Should I?”: Can Foot Convince the Skeptic?

Anselm W. Müller

 

7

The Deep and the Shallow

Gavin Lawrence

 

8

Foot’s Grammar of Goodness

Micah Lott

 

9

Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection:

Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science

Parisa Moosavi

O autorze

John Hacker-Wright is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Philippa Foot’s Moral Thought (2013) and many papers on virtue ethics and neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism. He is editor of the Journal of Value Inquiry.

Blurb

This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot’s later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics. The chapters address questions about how Foot relates judgments of moral goodness to human nature, how Foot understands happiness, and addresses objections to her framework from the perspective of empirical biology.  The volume will be of value to any student or scholar with an interest in virtue ethics and analytic moral philosophy.