Deontology

Deontology brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on ethics, presenting canonical essays on core questions in moral philosophy. Edited and introduced by Stephen Darwall, these readings are essential for anyone interested in normative theory.

• With a helpful introduction by Stephen Darwall, examines key topics in deontological moral theory.
• Includes seven essays which respond to the classic sources.
• Includes classic excerpts by key figures such Kant, Richard Price and W. D. Ross; and recent reactions to this work by philosophers, including Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, Stephen Darwall, Judith Thomson, Frances Kamm, Warren Quinn, and Christine Korsgaard.

Author: Darwall
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 10/30/2002
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.02w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780631231127

About the Author
Stephen Darwall is the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He has written widely on moral philosophy and its history, and is the author of Impartial Reason (1983), The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought' 1640-1740 (1995), Philosophical Ethics (1998), and Welfare and Rational Care (2002). He is the editor, with Allan Gibbard and Peter Railton, of Moral Discourse and Practice (1997).