Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer and Head of Philosophy at the University of Kent.

Review from previous edition Alan Thomas has constructed an impressive in depth defence of moral cognitivism...This is a book that deserves many readers... Thomas may well have put together the best possible arguments for the cognitivism that he defends.

• PART ONE: MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL REASONS; PART TWO: NORM-EXPRESSIVISM AND NON-OBJECTIVISM; PART THREE: CONTEXTUALIST MORAL JUSTIFICATION; PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALISM IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer and Head of Philosophy at the University of Kent.

Review from previous edition Alan Thomas has constructed an impressive in depth defence of moral cognitivism...This is a book that deserves many readers... Thomas may well have put together the best possible arguments for the cognitivism that he defends.

• PART ONE: MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL REASONS; PART TWO: NORM-EXPRESSIVISM AND NON-OBJECTIVISM; PART THREE: CONTEXTUALIST MORAL JUSTIFICATION; PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALISM IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer and Head of Philosophy at the University of Kent.

Review from previous edition Alan Thomas has constructed an impressive in depth defence of moral cognitivism...This is a book that deserves many readers... Thomas may well have put together the best possible arguments for the cognitivism that he defends.

• PART ONE: MORAL KNOWLEDGE AND MORAL REASONS; PART TWO: NORM-EXPRESSIVISM AND NON-OBJECTIVISM; PART THREE: CONTEXTUALIST MORAL JUSTIFICATION; PART FOUR: CONTEXTUALISM IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY