Contemporary debates in moral theory /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Part I: Normative theory -- Is the rightness of action determined by the value of consequences? -- The consequentialist perspective / William Shaw -- Against maximizing act-consequentialism / Peter Vallentyne -- Part II: Reasons with demands : rethinking rightness / Alastair Norcross -- Can contract theory ground morality? -- Moral contractarianism as a foundation for interpersonal morality / Samuel Freeman -- Can contract theory ground morality? / Philip Pettit -- Are the virtues the proper starting point for ethical theory? -- Are virtues the proper starting point for morality? / Rosalind Hursthouse -- Virtue theory / Julia Driver -- Reason and motivation -- Are moral requirements derived from reason? -- Reason, sentiment, and categorical imperatives / Samuel J. Kerstein -- Must we weep for sentimentalism? / Simon Blackburn -- Is motivation internal to moral judgment? -- How do moral judgments motivate? / Sigrun Svavarsdottir -- Moral motivation / R. Jay Wallace -- Part III: Moral facts and explanations -- Is morality fully factual? -- Moral factualism / Peter Railton -- Morality without moral facts / Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons -- Do moral facts and properties explain anything? -- Moral explanations defended / Nicholas L. Sturgeon -- Moral epistemology and the because constraint / Nick Zangwill -- Are there general moral principles? -- Ethical generality and moral judgment / Robert Audi -- Defending moral particularism / Mark Lance and Margaret O. Little