Luck, value, and commitment : themes from the ethics of Bernard Williams / edited by Ulrike Heuer, Gerald Lang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heuer, Ulrike.

Lang, Gerald

Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003.

Williams, Bernard.

Physical Description:

x, 338 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Luck, value, & commitment

Place of Publication:

Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Luck, Value, and Commitment comprises eleven new essays which engage with, or take their point of departure from, the influential work in moral and political philosophy of Bernard Williams (1929-2003). Various themes of Williams's work are explored and taken in new directions. In their essays, Brad Hooker, Philip Pettit, and Susan Wolf are all concerned with Williams's work on the viability or wisdom of systematic moral theory, and his criticism, in particular, of moral theory's preoccupation with impartiality. David Enoch, Joseph Raz, and R. Jay Wallace address Williams' work on moral luck, and his insistence that moral appraisals bear a disquieting sensitivity to various kinds of luck. Wallace makes further connections between moral luck and the 'non-identity problem' in reproductive ethics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ethical Theory

1 Theory versus Anti-theory in Ethics / Brad Hooker Hooker, Brad 19

2 The Inescapability of Consequentialism / Philip Pettit Pettit, Philip 41

3 'One Thought Too Many': Love, Morality, and the Ordering of Commitment / Susan Wolf Wolf, Susan 71

Moral Luck

4 Being Responsible, Taking Responsibility, and Penumbral Agency / David Enoch Enoch, David 95

5 Agency and Luck / Joseph Raz Raz, Joseph 133

6 Justification, Regret, and Moral Complaint: Looking Forward and Looking Backward on (and in) Human Life / R. Jay Wallace Wallace, R. Jay 163

Reasons and 'Ought'

7 A Puzzle about Internal Reasons / Michael Smith Smith, Michael 195

8 Thick Concepts and Internal Reasons / Ulrike Heuer Heuer, Ulrike 219

9 Williams on Ought / John Broome Broome, John 247

Intuitionism and Moral Knowledge

10 McDowell, Williams, and Intuitionism / Jonathan Dancy Dancy, Jonathan 269

Political Philosophy

11 Discrimination, Partial Concern, and Arbitrariness / Gerald Lang Lang, Gerald 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.

ISBN:

0199599327

9780199599325

OCLC:

769989366

Publisher Number:

99950353302