Modern Moral Philosophy

Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe’s famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of the contributors do take Anscombe’s work as a starting point. Taken together the collection could be seen as a demonstration of the extent to which moral philosophers have since attempted to answer Anscombe’s challenge, and to develop an approach to their subject which, while psychologically plausible, is neither based on divine law nor permissive of the impermissible.

• Contributions from leading philosophers • Written in an accessible style

Rationality and goodness Philippa Foot; Acting well Anselm Winfried Müller; Apprehending human form Michael Thompson; Does modern moral philosophy rest on a mistake? Roger Crisp; Absolutes and particulars Tim Chappell; On the so-called logic of practical inference A. W. Price; Absolute prohibitions without divine promises Sabina Lovibond; Moral obligation Thomas Pink; The lesser evil Avishai Margalit; The ethics of co-operation in wrongdoing David S. Oderberg; Authority Roger Teichmann; The force of numbers Joseph Raz; Reason, intention, and choice: an essay in practical philosophy Gavin Lawrence; Modern moral philosophy and the problem of relevant descriptions Onora O’Neill.