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Notes on Editors and Contributors vii <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Hugh LaFollette and Ingmar Persson</i></p> <p><b>Part I Metaethics and Moral Epistemology</b></p> <p>1 Moral Realism 17<br /><i>Michael Smith</i></p> <p>2 Relativism 43<br />Simon Blackburn</p> <p>3 Moral Agreement 59<br /><i>Derek Parfit</i></p> <p>4 Divine Command Theory 81<br /><i>Philip L. Quinn</i></p> <p>5 Moral Intuition 103<br /><i>Jeff McMahan</i></p> <p><b>Part II Factual Background of Ethics</b></p> <p>6 Ethics and Evolution 123<br /><i>Richard Joyce</i></p> <p>7 Psychological Egoism 148<br /><i>Elliott Sober</i></p> <p>8 The Science of Ethics 169<br /><i>Ron Mallon and John M. Doris</i></p> <p>9 The Relevance of Responsibility to Morality 197<br /><i>Ingmar Persson</i></p> <p><b>Part III Normative Ethics</b></p> <p>10 Act-Utilitarianism 221<br /><i>R.G. Frey</i></p> <p>11 Rule-Consequentialism 238<br /><i>Brad Hooker</i></p> <p>12 Nonconsequentialism 261<br /><i>F.M. Kamm</i></p> <p>13 Intuitionism 287<br /><i>David McNaughton and Piers Rawling</i></p> <p>14 Kantianism 311<br /><i>Thomas E. Hill Jr</i></p> <p>15 Contractarianism 332<br />Geoffrey Sayre-McCord</p> <p>16 Rights 354<br /><i>L.W. Sumner</i></p> <p>17 Libertarianism 373<br /><i>Jan Narveson</i></p> <p>18 Virtue Ethics 394<br /><i>Michael Slote</i></p> <p>19 Capability Ethics 412<br /><i>Ingrid Robeyns</i></p> <p>20 Feminist Ethics 433<br /><i>Alison M. Jaggar</i></p> <p>21 Continental Ethics 461<br /><i>William R. Schroeder</i></p> <p>Index 487</p>

<p><b>Hugh LaFollette</b> is Marie and Leslie E. Cole Chair in Ethics, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. He is editor-in-chief of the nine volume <i>International Encyclopedia of Ethics </i>(2013), and author of <i>The Practice of Ethics </i>(Blackwell, 2007) and <i>Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality</i> (Blackwell, 1995). He is co-author of <i>Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation</i> (1996), and editor of several other volumes, including <i>Ethics in Practice: An Anthology</i> (third edition, Blackwell, 2007).</p> <p><b>Ingmar Persson</b> is Professor of Practical Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, and Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. His publications include <i>The Retreat of Reason </i>(2005) and, together with Julian Savulescu, <i>Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement</i> (2012). He is now finishing <i>From Morality to the End of Reason: An Essay on Rights, Reasons and Responsibility.</i></p>

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