Book description
Developing Deontology
consists of six new essays in ethical theory by leading contemporary
moral philosophers. Each essay considers concepts prominent in the
development of deontological approaches to ethics, and these essays
offer an invaluable contribution to that development.
- Essays are contributed by Michael Smith, Philip Stratton-Lake,
Ralph Wedgewood, David Owens, Peter Vallentyne, and Elizabeth Harman
- all leading contemporary moral philosophers
- Each essay offers an original and previously unpublished
contribution to the subject
- A significant addition to the field for anyone with an interest in
the development of deontology
- The collection is edited by a leading philosophical scholar
Brad Hooker is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at
the University of Reading, UK. He has been most closely associated
with discussions of rule-consequentialism, although he has published
papers on a wide variety of topics in ethical theory, including the
idea that moral principles must be suitable for public acceptance. He
is the author of Ideal Code, Real World: A Rule-Consequentialist
Theory of Morality (2000) and the editor of Rationality,
Rules, and Utility (1993), and Truth in Ethics
(1997). Professor Hooker is an associate editor of Ratio and
the editor-in-chief of Utilitas.
