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1. Moral Relativism and Reasons for Acting

   By Robert Streiffer

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   Published February 27th 2003 by Routledge
2. Making Comparisons Count

   By Ruth Chang

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer...

   Published December 25th 2001 by Routledge
3. The Idea of Humanity

   Anthropology and Anthroponomy in Kant's Ethics

   By David G. Sussman

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   Examining the significance of Kant's account of "rational faith," this study argues that he profoundly revises his account of the human will and the moral philosophy of it in his later religious writings....

   Published August 30th 2001 by Routledge
4. Consensualism in Principle

   On the Foundations of Non-Consequentialist Moral Reasoning

   By Rahul Kumar

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   This book presents and argues for a suitably articulated version of consensualism as a form of Kantian moral theory with an ability to powerfully illuminate the moral intuitions to which Kantian and utilitarian theories have traditionally appealed....

   Published July 30th 2001 by Routledge
5. Learning and Coordination

   Inductive Deliberation, Equilibrium and Convention

   By Peter Vanderschraaf

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   Vanderschraaf develops a new theory of game theory equilibrium selection in this book. The new theory defends general correlated equilibrium concepts and suggests a new analysis of convention....

   Published March 27th 2001 by Routledge
6. Friendship and Agent-Relative Morality

   By Troy A. Jollimore

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   Published January 10th 2001 by Routledge
7. Moral Self-Regard

   Duties to Oneself in Kant's Moral Theory

   By Lara Denis

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   Moral Self-Regard draws on the work of Marcia Baron, Joseph Butler and Allen Wood, among others in this first extensive study of the nature, foundation and significance of duties to oneself in Kant's moral theory....

   Published January 10th 2001 by Routledge
8. The Metaphysics of the Moral Law

   Kant's Deduction of Freedom

   By Carol W. Voeller

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   This work offers a new understanding of Kant on the freedom of the will. Voeller looks in detail at the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason against the background of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole....

   Published January 7th 2001 by Routledge
9. John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape

   An Essay in Moral Psychology

   By Candace A. Vogler

   Series: Studies in Ethics

   This book charts the fate of philosophical theory. Drawing on the anti-instrumentalist strands of Millian thought, Vogler constructs a powerful objection to instrumentalism about practical rationality....

   Published December 26th 2000 by Routledge
10. Thinking in Moral Terms

    By Sigrun Svavarsdottir

    Series: Studies in Ethics

    Published December 7th 2000 by Routledge