Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral
discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to�…

As we live our lives, we repeatedly make decisions that shape our future circumstances and
affect the sort of person we will be. When choosing whether to start a family, or deciding on a�…

Joining the ancient debate over the roles of reason and appetite in the moral mind, In Praise
of Desire takes the side of appetite. Acting for moral reasons, acting in a praiseworthy�…

Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around
which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process�…

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct
statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical�…

The things we do today may make life worse for future generations. But why should we care
what happens to people who won't be born until after all of us are gone? Some philosophers�…

Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our
understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought�…

At a time when respect is widely touted as an attitude of central moral importance, contempt
is often derided as a thoroughly nasty emotion inimical to the respect we owe all persons�…

Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have
reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of�…

Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as
love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive�…