This anthology gathers together key contemporary reading on the foundations of ethical theory and on meta-ethics.



CONTENTS & CONTRIBUTORS: . Introducti 1.; rwall, Gibbard, Railton: Toward Fin de Siecle Ethics: Some; Principia Ethica 3. Ludwig Wittgenstein; Lecture on Ethics4. Charles Stevenson; The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms 5. Gilbert Harman; Ethics and Observation 6. J.L. Mackie; Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong III. Meta-Ethics a) Realism 7. Richard Boyd; How to be a Moral Realist 8. Peter Railton; Moral Realism b) Anti-Realism 10. Allan Gibbard; Wise Choices, Apt Feelings c) Sensibility Theories 11. John McDowell; Value and Secondary Properties 12. John McDowell; Projection and Truth in Ethics 13. David Wiggins; A Sensible Subjectivism d) Constructivism 14. John Rawls; Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory 15. T.M. Scanlon; Contractualism and Utilitarianism 16. Jurgen Habermas; Discourse Ethics IV. Reasons, Motives, and the Demands of Morality 17. Stephen Darwall; introductory article 18. Philippa Foot; Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives 19. Thomas Nagel; The Possibility of Altruism 20. David Gauthier; Morals by Agreement 21. Bernard Williams; Internal and External Reasons 22. Christine Korsgaard; Skepticism About Practical Reason 23. Christine Korsgaard; The Sources of Normativity Bibliography