Bloomsbury Companion to Ethics

Christian Miller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, USA. He is the author of Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013) and Character and Moral Psychology (2014). He is also the director of The Character Project, which is funded by a 4.6 million dollar grant for the study of character from the John Templeton Foundation.

This contribution to the Continuum "Companion" series, edited by Miller (Wake Forest Univ.), rivals and in a few ways surpasses similar titles, including those that are part of Blackwell's and Cambridge's Companion series, and Oxford's Handbook and Studies series. One feature that sets this volume apart, and that future competitors will want to emulate, is its section of three chapters called "New Directions in Ethics." The chapter titled "Experimental Ethics," by Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, sets out in a very approachable way the sorts of questions that experimental ethics is meant to answer, along with information on the methods that are available and useful in answering those questions. William FitzPatrick's chapter titled "Biology, Evolution, and Ethics" seeks to bring readers up to date on the conclusions and methods since E. O. Wilson suggested that morality be taken from philosophers and "biologized." And Pekka Väyrynen writes a chapter on moral particularism. Other contributors include Al Mele, Joshua Gert, and Russ Shafer-Landau. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through faculty/researches.

• Notes on ContributorsPreface: How to Use this Book, the Intended Audience, and Acknowledgments, Christian Miller (Wake Forest University, USA)Overview of Contemporary Metaethics and Normative Ethical Theory, Christian Miller (Wake Forest University, USA)Chronology of Ethics, J. B. Schneewind (John Hopkins University, USA)Methodological Issues: Reflective Equilibrium, Michael DePaul (University of Notre Dame, USA)Important Technical Terms in Ethics, Dan Boisvert (University of North Carolina, USA), John Brunero (University of Missouri, USA), Sean McKeever (Davidson College, USA), Eric Wiland (University of Missouri, USA)Part I: Central Topics in Ethics1. Moral Realism, Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont, USA)2. Ethical Expressivism, Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh, UK)3. Constructivism and the Error Theory, Hallvard Lillehammer (University of Cambridge, UK)4. Morality and Practical Reason, Joshua Gert (College of William and Mary, USA)5. Moral Psychology, Alfred Mele (Florida State University, USA)6. Morality and Religion, William Wainwright (University of Wisconsin, USA)7. Consequentialism, Douglas W. Portmore (Arizona State University, USA)8. Kantian Ethics, Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University, USA)9. Virtue Ethics, Christine Swanton (University of Auckland, New Zealand)10. Feminist Ethics, Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, USA)Part II: New Directions in Ethics 11. Moral Particularism, Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds, UK)12. Experimental Ethics, Thomas Nadelhoffer and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University, USA)13. Biology, Evolution, and Ethics, William FitzPatrick (University of Rochester, USA)Part III: Additional Resources Resources for the Fields of Metaethics and Normative Theory, Christian Miller (Wake Forest University)Selected Works in Contemporary Meta-Ethics and Normative Theory, Christian Miller (Wake Forest University)NotesIndex