{"product_id":"moral-theory-and-anomaly-isbn-9780631218333","title":"Moral Theory and Anomaly","description":"\u003ci\u003eMoral Theory and Anomaly\u003c\/i\u003e considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to women and the non-human natural world.  Preface. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Doubts About Moral Theories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Moral Theory and Anti-Theory: Uses for Moral Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScepticism about Moral Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCountering Anti-Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Theory versus Theories: Williams on Moral Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Rough Parallel: Normal Science and Standard Normative Ethical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePuzzles in Moral Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePuzzles versus Anomalies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Argument of the Rest of the Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Some Sources of Anomaly?\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Business, the Ethical and Self-interest: Two Sources of Prima Facie Anomaly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Utopianism of Business Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Sensibility and Insensibility in Business.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Reasons Again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Deep Problem in Business Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Politics, Power and Partisanship: Political Morality: The Moral Risks of Power for the Public Good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDirty Hands.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Morality, Private Morality and Moral Schizophrenia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHampshire's Anti-Theory of Political Morality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Difference Democracy Makes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemocracy and Partisanship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Feminism and Moral Theory: How Conventional Theories Let Women Down.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Theory After Gilligan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Care? Sarah Hoagland's \u003ci\u003eLesbian Ethics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory Without Patriarchy?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Challenge of Practice: Two True Stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Environmentalism and Moral Theory: The Land Ethic and its Competitors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs the Land Ethic a Moral Theory?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Thoroughgoing is the Land Ethic?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Problem of Grounding Reconsidered.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Deep Environmentalist Theory to Practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Residual Anomaly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Conclusion.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Significance of Anomaly: Anomalies Reviewed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo Anomalies Have Anything in Common?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of Anomaly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"In a spirited and wide-ranging defence of ethical theory, Sorell combines sympathetic understanding and penetrating criticism. Both sceptics about theory and proponents of new paradigms will need to engage with his arguments.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJimmy Altham,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sorell convincingly shows how certain issues in applied ethics create anomalies. Do these anomalies result in a justified scepticism toward traditional ethical theory? No, but the claims of traditional theory must be more modest. A subtle and persuasive piece of philosophy.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eNorman Bowie,\u003c\/b\u003e The London Business School\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eTom Sorell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. In 1996-7 he was Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University and he has published extensively in moral theory and applied ethics, philosophy of science and the history and historiography of early modern philosophy. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eMoral Theory and Capital Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1987); \u003ci\u003eScientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science\u003c\/i\u003e (1991); and \u003ci\u003eHobbes\u003c\/i\u003e (1986).  Is the practice of moral theorizing inherently misguided? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoral Theory and Anomaly\u003c\/i\u003e considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to women and the non-human natural world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe idea that there are radical failures of application of moral theory - anomalies - might be taken to complement a very general scepticism about moral theory expressed recently by several philosophers including Bernard Williams, Annette Baier and Richard Rorty. This book brings together moral theory and applied ethics in an unusual way, and while it is anti-sceptical it does concede that there is likely to be only slow progress from the current state of conflict between mainstream utilitarian, Kantian and virtue theories to something better that makes their different insights cohere.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is essential reading to anyone working in contemporary ethics and moral philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989654094053,"sku":"NP9780631218333","price":112.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631218333.jpg?v=1761784972","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/moral-theory-and-anomaly-isbn-9780631218333","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}