Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mark Timmons
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
New Work ◽  
Moral Testimony ◽  
Finding Meaning ◽  
Moral Rules ◽  
Moral Blame ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics features new work in normative ethical theory. This 11th volume includes chapters on the following topics: the significance of appreciation; the objective/subjective debate over wrongness; requests as a kind of wrong; the puzzle of taking comfort in the travails of others; finding meaning in one’s life; the boundaries of morality in light of the legitimacy of non-moral partialist pursuits; the value of moral testimony to those who testify; the category of “ordinary” wrongs that are not blameworthy; the practical role of Kant’s Categorical Imperative; the possibility of non-moral blame; reasons to reject the category of subjective obligation; how to understand the point of ethical theory; and the justification of social moral rules....

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Timmons
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
New Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Right Action ◽  
Evaluative Beliefs ◽  
Moral Advice ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics features new work in the field of normative ethical theory. This eighth volume features chapters which collectively address the following topics: the irreplaceable value of human beings, interpersonal morality and conceptions of welfare, what it is for something to be good for an animal (including humans), the relation between good will and right action, moral advice and joint agency, moral responsibility and wrongdoing, the basis of equality, the role of needs claims in ethical theory, threshold conceptions of deontology, prudential reasons, the significance of evaluative beliefs, and Stoic conceptions of insults....

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 11

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Moral Testimony ◽  
Annual Basis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

This series aims to provide, on an annual basis, some of the best contemporary work in the field of normative ethical theory. Each volume features new chapters that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of issues and positions in normative ethical theory, and represents a sampling of recent developments in this field. This 11th volume brings together 13 new essays that collectively cover a range of fundamental topics in the field, including moral conscientiousness and moral wrongness; impartiality and the boundaries of morality; moral testimony; Kant’s categorical imperative; and ethical theories as methods of ethics.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Timmons
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
New Work ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Desire Satisfaction ◽  
Choice Under Uncertainty ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics brings together new work on various dimensions of normative ethical theory. This seventh volume features thirteen chapters dealing with practical reasoning, Bernard Williams’s ‘one thought too many’ complaint about impartial ethical theories, the concept of moral right, the wrongness of lying, moral choice under uncertainty, the notion of subjective obligation, commendatory reasons, desire satisfaction and time, a challenge to contractualism, the nature of creditworthiness, partiality toward oneself, the relation between virtue and action, and monism versus pluralism about non-derivative value....

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mark Timmons
Keyword(s):  
Decision Theory ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Self ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
New Work ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics features new work in the field of normative ethical theory. The chapters in this ninth volume collectively address the following topics: the relation between duty and motive, the structure of requests, discretionary moral duties, third-party forgiveness, persons as things, fitting love, the doctrine of double endorsement, taking oneself lightly, duty and right reasons, deontological decision theory, suboptimal beneficence, the self and radical change, and teleosemantics and normative ethics....

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 8

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Annual Basis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Moral Advice ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

This series aims to provide, on an annual basis, some of the best contemporary work in the field of normative ethical theory. Each volume features new chapters that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of issues and positions in normative ethical theory, and represents a sampling of recent developments in this field. This eighth volume brings together thirteen new essays that collectively cover a range of fundamental topics in the field, including: the irreplaceable value of human beings, interpersonal morality and conceptions of welfare, what it is for something to be good for an animal (including humans), the relation between good will and right action, moral advice and joint agency, moral responsibility and wrongdoing, the basis of equality, the role of needs claims in ethical theory, threshold conceptions of deontology, prudential reasons, the significance of evaluative beliefs, and Stoic conceptions of insults. This volume features chapters by Ben Bramble, Samantha Brennan, Talbot Brewer, Dale Dorsey, Patricio A. Fernandez, Guy Fletcher, Christine M. Korsgaard, Chelsea Rosenthal, Grant J. Rozeboom, Roy Sorensen, Julie Tannenbaum, and Alex Worsnip.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mark Timmons
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
New Work ◽  
Willful Ignorance ◽  
Epistemic Risk ◽  
Rule Consequentialism ◽  
Personal Virtue ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics features new work in the field of normative ethical theory. This tenth volume features chapters on the following topics: defending deontology, justice as a personal virtue, willful ignorance and moral responsibility, moral obligation and epistemic risk, the so-called numbers problem in ethics, rule consequentialism, moral worth, respect and rational agency, a Kantian solution to the trolley problem, virtue and character, and the limits of virtue ethics....

scholarly journals The Archangel Delusion. Descriptive Ethics and Its Role in the Education of Ethicists

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Jarosław Kucharski
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Moral Intuitions ◽  
Descriptive Ethics ◽  
Moral Theories

The role of ethicists is to provide a genuine ethical theory to help non-ethicists interpret and solve moral dilemmas, to define what is right or wrong, and, finally, to clarify moral values. Therefore, ethicists are taught to address morality with rational procedures, to set aside their moral intuitions and emotions. Sometimes, professional ethicists are prone to falling into the archangel delusion – the belief that they are beyond the influence of their own emotions. This can lead to ousting moral intuitions from the space of ethical reflection, thus making ethicists unaware of them. They may treat intuitive beliefs about morality as an expression of primal moral feelings. The main question pursued in this article, is how those feelings may influence moral theories, which should be developed by professional ethicists. Ethicists may provide an ethical theory which is merely a rationalisation and justification for their own suppressed moral emotions, rather than the effect of genuine, rational moral reasoning. To help ethicists cope with this delusion, a model of cooperation between descriptive and normative ethics is proposed. Ethicists should therefore use the research tools of descriptive ethics to determine their own intuitions, and the moral emotions in which these intuitions are grounded. --------------- Received: 09/06/2021. Reviewed: 23/07/2021. Accepted: 13/08/2021.

Freedom and Morality

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-139
Author(s):  
Sandra Shapshay
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Hard Determinism ◽  
Freedom Of The Will ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

Most contemporary ethical theorists do not look to Schopenhauer as a resource for contemporary normative ethics. Chapters 1 and 2 dispel one of the main reasons for this—namely, that Schopenhauer’s pessimism leads only to the recommendation of resignation. But there is another reason why Schopenhauer has been neglected as an ethical theorist that this chapter addresses. It is widely held that Schopenhauer espouses hard determinism, the view that human beings (in addition to non-human animals) are determined to act as they do on the basis of physical and psychological laws. Yet, without the presumption of freedom it makes little sense to offer a normative ethical theory. Accordingly, before reconstructing Schopenhauer’s normative ethical theory, one needs to get clearer on his views on freedom. This chapter begins with Schopenhauer’s grappling with the problem of how freedom is possible in his dissertation (1813) and traces the development of his theory of freedom through The World as Will and Representation (1818) and his essay “On the Freedom of the Will” (1839). Next, it offers an interpretation of Schopenhauer’s mature compatibilist view that shows how it aims to depart from, but remains highly indebted to Kant’s theory of freedom. This under-acknowledged debt is the “ghost of Kantian freedom” in Schopenhauer’s thought. Ultimately, for Schopenhauer, though we are each born with an innate character and are shaped largely by our empirical circumstances, a rational being is nonetheless responsible for her character, which she can shape and even, albeit rarely, transform.

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Vol 7

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Annual Basis ◽  
Instrumental Reasoning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

This series aims to provide, on an annual basis, some of the best contemporary work in the field of normative ethical theory. Each volume features new chapters that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of issues and positions in normative ethical theory, and represents a sampling of recent developments in this field. This seventh volume brings together thirteen new essays that collectively cover a range of fundamental topics in the field, including: instrumental reasoning; lying as infidelity; moral uncertaintism; subjective obligation; commendatory reasons; contractualism; and the definition of virtue.

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 9

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Annual Basis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Moral Duties ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
Normative Ethical Theory

This series aims to provide, on an annual basis, some of the best contemporary work in the field of normative ethical theory. Each volume features new chapters that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of issues and positions in normative ethical theory, and represents a sampling of recent developments in this field. This ninth volume brings together thirteen new essays that collectively cover a range of fundamental topics in the field, including: discretionary moral duties, third‐party forgiveness, subjective permissibility, agent‐relative prerogatives, and teleosemantics

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