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Taking Moral Theorising Seriously: A Theory-First Approach to Moral Philosophy book cover

1st Edition

Taking Moral Theorising Seriously A Theory-First Approach to Moral Philosophy

By Andrew Sneddon Copyright 2026
186 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book develops a plausible and novel account of methodology for moral philosophy. It focuses on the structural features of moral theories, specifically what is taken as input and the process of theorising itself. Philosophers have long neglected the difficulties of identifying and using good input for moral theorising. The first part of the book argues that we should use “contrastively... Read more

1. Introduction

Part 1: How to Do Moral Theorising
2. Two Desiderata for Input to Theory
3. The Contrastive Success Model of Input for Moral Theorising
4. Theoretical Virtues in Science
5. Virtues of Moral Theories

Part 2: An Example of As-If Theory Construction
6. Agent-Relativity and Agent-Neutrality Introduced
7. As-If Theory Construction and Evaluation I: Conflict between Like Agent-Relative Obligations
8. As-If Theory Construction and Evaluation II: Conflict between Different Agent-Relative Obligations
9. As-If Theory Construction and Evaluation III: Conflict between Agent-Relative and Agent-Neutral Obligations

Afterword

Biography

Andrew Sneddon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. He studies ethics and philosophical psychology. His books include Offense and Offensiveness: A Philosophical Account (Routledge 2021), Autonomy (2013), and Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology (2011).

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