Values and Virtues: Aristotelianism in Contemporary Ethics (Mind Association Occasional Series)

310 Pages·2006·3.19 MB·English

by  Timothy Chappell

VALUES AND VIRTUES
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Contents
NotesonContributors vii
Introduction 1
TimothyChappell
1. ModernVirtueEthics 20
ChristopherMilesCoope
2. TheAdmirableLifeandtheDesirableLife 53
LindaZagzebski
3. VirtueandRightsinAristotle’sBestRegime 67
FredD.Miller,Jun.
4. TheVirtuesandVicesofVirtueJurisprudence 90
R.A.Duff
5. HabituationasMimesis 105
HallvardJ.Fossheim
6. MoralIncompetence 118
AdamMorton
7. TheVarietyofLifeandtheUnityofPracticalWisdom 136
TimothyChappell
8. MoralSenseandVirtueinHume’sEthics 158
PaulRussell
9. CanNietzschebeBothanExistentialistandaVirtueEthicist? 171
ChristineSwanton
10. Manners,Morals,andPracticalWisdom 189
KarenStohr
11. TheHardboiledDetectiveasMoralist:EthicsinCrimeFiction 212
SandrineBerges
12. ‘LiketheBloomonYouths’:HowPleasureCompletesourLives 226
JohanBra¨nnmark
13. MixedDeterminates:Pleasure,Good,andTruth 239
TheodoreScaltsas
14. ThreeDogmasofDesire 257
TalbotBrewer
Bibliography 285
Index 297
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Notes on Contributors
ChristopherMilesCoopeisSeniorFellowintheSchoolofPhilosophyattheUniversity
of Leeds. He has published on ethics and applied ethics; one recent paper is ‘Peter
SingerinRetrospect’,PhilosophicalQuarterly,2003.HisbookWorthandWelfareinthe
ControversyoverAbortion,andapaperinPhilosophy (‘Death Sentences’), willappearin
2006.
LindaZagzebskiisKingfisherCollegeChairofthePhilosophyofReligionandEthicsat
theUniversityofOklahoma.Inadditiontoseveraleditedbooks,sheistheauthorofDivine
MotivationTheory(CambridgeUniversityPress,2004),VirtuesoftheMind (Cambridge
University Press, 1996), and The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (Oxford
UniversityPress,1991),aswellasnumerousarticlesandbookchaptersinepistemology,
ethics,andphilosophyofreligion.SheisPresidentoftheSocietyofChristianPhilosophers
andpastPresidentoftheAmericanCatholicPhilosophicalAssociation.
Fred D. Miller, Jun. is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Social
PhilosophyandPolicyCenteratBowlingGreenStateUniversity.Hehasbeenavisiting
professor at the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, and the
UniversityofWaterloo,andavisitingscholaratHarvardUniversity,theInstituteforthe
ResearchintheHumanitiesattheUniversityofWisconsin,JesusCollege,Oxford,and
theCentreforEthics,Philosophy,andPublicAffairsatStAndrewsUniversity.Hewas
PresidentoftheSocietyofAncientGreekPhilosophyfrom1998until2004.Heisthe
authorofNature,Justice,andRightsinAristotle’sPolitics(OxfordUniversityPress,1995),
andco-editorofACompaniontoAristotle’sPolitics(Blackwell,1991)andAHistoryofthe
PhilosophyofLawfromtheAncientGreekstotheScholastics(SpringerKluwer,2006).
R. A. Duff is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of
Stirling,where hehastaughtsince1970.Hispaperinthis collectionispartofalarger
project on the character and conditions of criminal liability. He has published Trials
and Punishments (Cambridge University Press, 1986), Intention, Agency and Criminal
Liability (Blackwell, 1990); Criminal Attempts (Oxford University Press, 1996), and
Punishment,CommunicationandCommunity(OxfordUniversityPress,2000).
HallvardJ.FossheimisalecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofOslo.Hisresearch
focusesprimarilyonPlatoandAristotle.
AdamMortonholdstheCanadaResearchChairinepistemologyanddecisiontheoryat
theUniversityofAlberta.Hiscurrentworkconcernstheintelligentreactiontolimitations
in one’s reasoning powers: how to think about the fact that your head is only human
sized.HehasalsotaughtatPrinceton,Ottawa,Bristol,andOklahoma.Hismostrecent
books are The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics, and On Evil
(bothRoutledge).
TimothyChappellisProfessorofPhilosophyatTheOpenUniversity.Hehasalsotaught
attheUniversitiesofEastAnglia,Manchester,Dundee,andOxford,andhasheldvisiting
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positions at the Universities of British Columbia, Edinburgh, and St Andrews. His
otherbooksareAristotleandAugustineonFreedom(Macmillan,1995),ThePlatoReader
(EdinburghUniversityPress,1996),ThePhilosophyoftheEnvironment (ed.,Edinburgh
University Press, 1997), Understanding Human Goods (Edinburgh University Press,
1998),HumanValues:EssaysinConsequentialistandNon-consequentialistEthicalTheory
(co-editedwithD.Oderberg,Macmillan,2004),ReadingPlato’sTheaetetus(Hackettand
AcademiaVerlag,2005),andTheInescapableSelf (Orion,2005).
PaulRussellisProfessorinPhilosophyattheUniversityofBritishColumbia,wherehehas
beenteachingsince1987.HewasborninGlasgow,Scotland,in1955.Heisagraduateof
Queen’sUniversityatKingston(B.A.),EdinburghUniversity(M.A.),andholdsaPh.D.
from Cambridge University. He has been a research fellow at Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge(1984–6);avisitingassistantprofessorattheUniversityofVirginia(1988);
a Mellon fellow and a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University (1989–90); a
fellowoftheInstituteforAdvancedStudiesintheHumanitiesatEdinburghUniversity
(1991and1996);visitingassociateprofessorattheUniversityofPittsburgh(1996–7),
andvisitingprofessor(KenanDistinguishedVisitor)attheUniversityofNorthCarolina
atChapelHill(2005).Hisprincipalresearchinterestsincludeproblemsoffreewilland
moral responsibility, and the history of early modern philosophy (particularly David
Hume).HeistheauthorofFreedomandMoralSentiment:Hume’sWayofNaturalizing
Responsibility(OxfordUniversityPress,1995;OxfordOnlineScholarship,2003).
ChristineSwantonisSeniorLecturerinPhilosophyattheUniversityofAuckland,and
authorofFreedom:ACoherenceTheory(Hackett,1992;winneroftheJohnsonianPrize,
1990),andofVirtueEthics:APluralisticView(OxfordUniversityPress,2003).Shehas
publishedextensivelyinmoraltheory,includingworkonvirtueethics,roleethics,Hume,
andNietzsche.
Karen Stohr is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. Her main
researchareaisethics,withafocusonAristotelianvirtueethicsandKantianethics.Sheis
alsointerestedinsocialandpoliticalphilosophy,feminism,andbioethics,particularlyin
theCatholictradition.Herpresentresearchconcernsthevirtueofpracticalwisdom,moral
riskandresponsibilityinchildbirth,moralobligationstoimprovethemoralperfection
ofothers,andlatitudeandmandatoryaidinKantianethics.Recentpublicationsinclude:
‘Practical Wisdom and Moral Imagination in Sense and Sensibility’, forthcoming in
PhilosophyandLiterature;‘MoralCacophony:WhenContinenceisaVirtue’,TheJournal
of Ethics(2003); ‘VirtueEthicsandKant’sCold-HeartedBenefactor’,Journalof Value
Inquiry (2002); and ‘Recent Work in Virtue Ethics’, with Christopher H. Wellman,
AmericanPhilosophicalQuarterly(2002).SheisalsoamemberoftheEthicsCommittee
atProvidenceHospitalinWashington,D.C.
Sandrine Berges holds a Ph.D. from Leeds University. She teaches in the Philosophy
Department at Bilkent University in Ankara. She is currently working on legal and
politicalphilosophyinPlatonicdialogues.
JohanBra¨nnmark currently holdsapositionasresearcher attheDepartment ofPhilo-
sophy, Lund University. He has taught at Umeå University and been a Fellow at the
SwedishCollegiumforAdvancedStudyintheSocialSciences,Uppsala.Hisdissertation,
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‘MoralityandthePursuitofHappiness’(Lund,2002),wasastudyinKantianethics.He
isnowworkingonvaluetheory.
Theodore Scaltsas is Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. His
books include Substances and Universals in Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Ithaca, 1994) and
Unity,IdentityandExplanationinAristotle’sMetaphysics(co-editedwithD.Charlesand
M. L. Gill, Oxford, 1994). His most recent publications are on the topics of plural
subjects,relations,andontologicalcomposition.HeisthedirectorofProjectArche´logos.
TalbotBrewerisanassociateprofessorintheCorcoranDepartmentofPhilosophyatthe
University of Virginia, and a faculty fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for
Advanced Studies in Culture. His recent publicationsinclude, ‘Virtues We Can Share:
Friendship and Aristotelian Ethical Theory’, Ethics (2005), ‘Maxims and Virtues’, The
Philosophical Review (2002), ‘The Real Problem with Internalism about Reasons’,
CanadianJournalof Philosophy(2002),‘TheCharacterofTemptation:TowardsaMore
Plausible Kantian Moral Psychology’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2002), ‘Savoring
Time: Desire, Pleasure and Wholehearted Activity’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
(2003),and‘TwoKindsofCommitments(andTwoKindsofSocialGroups)’,Philosophy
andPhenomenologicalResearch(2003).