Reading List:
1. William David Ross:
[OJ] “The Basis of Objective Judgements in Ethics,” International Journal of Ethics, 37(2) (1927): 113–127.
[RG] The Right and the Good, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930.
[FE] Foundations of Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939.
Secondary sources:
Audi, Robert, 1996, “Intuitionism, Pluralism, and the Foundations of Ethics,” in W. Sinnott-Armstrong and M. Timmons (eds.), Moral Knowledge?: New Readings in Moral Epistemology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 101–136.
–––, 2004, The Good in the Right: A Theory of Intuition and Intrinsic Value, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Broad, C. D., 1940, Review of Foundations of Ethics by W. D. Ross, Mind, 49(194): 228–239.
2. Immanuel Kant:
Kant, I., 1785, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, H.J. Paton (trans.), New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
Commentary: [KT] Kant’s Ethical Theory: A Commentary on the Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954.
3. Bentham, Jeremy, 1789, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, J. H. Burns and H. L. A. Hart (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
4. Dancy, Jonathan, 1991, “An Ethic of Prima Facie Duties,” in Peter Singer (ed.), A Companion to Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 219–229.
–––, 2004, Ethics Without Principles, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5. Mill, J. S., 1861. Utilitarianism, edited with an introduction by Roger Crisp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
6. Moore, G. E., 1903. Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
–––, 1912. Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Nozick, R., 1974. Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books.
- Hawkins, J.,. “The Experience Machine and the Experience Requirement”, The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being.
8. Nussbaum, Martha C., 2000. Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, New York: Cambridge University Press.
9. Sidgwick, H., 1907. The Methods of Ethics, seventh edition, London: Macmillan; first edition, 1874.
Additional literature:
Singer, P., 1974. “Sidgwick and Reflective Equilibrium”, Monist, 58: 490–517.
10. Brandt, R., 1979. A Theory of the Good and the Right, New York: Oxford University Press. (N.B. – exposition and defense of preference utilitarianism)
–––, 1992. Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Hurka, T., 1993. Perfectionism, New York: Oxford University Press.
–––, 2001. Virtue, Vice, and Value, New York: Oxford University Press.
12. Sen, A., 1979. “Utilitarianism and Welfarism”, Journal of Philosophy, 76: 463–89.
–––, 1982. “Rights and Agency”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 11(1): 3–39.
–––, 1985. “Well-Being, Agency, and Freedom”, Journal of Philosophy, 82(4): 169–221.
–––. 2002. Rationality and Freedom, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
13. Rawls, J., 1955. “Two Concepts of Rules”, Philosophical Review, 64: 3–32.
–––, 1971. A Theory of Justice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
14. Foot, P., 1967. “Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect”, Oxford Review, 5: 28–41.
–––, 1983. “Utilitarianism and the Virtues”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 57(2): 273–83; revised in Mind, 94 (1985): 196–209.
15. Railton, P., 1984. “Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 13: 134–71; reprinted in Railton 2003.
–––, 2003. Facts, Values, and Norms: Essays toward a Morality of Consequence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Sen, A., and Williams, B. (eds.), 1982. Utilitarianism and Beyond, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Scanlon, T. M., 1982. “Contractualism and Utilitarianism”, in Sen and
Williams (eds.) 1982.
17. Singer, P., 1974. “Sidgwick and Reflective Equilibrium”, Monist, 58: 490–517.
–––, 1993. Practical Ethics, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
–––, 2005. “Ethics and Intuitions”, The Journal of Ethics, 9(3/4): 331–352.
18. Smart, J. J. C., 1956. “Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 6: 344–54.
–––, 1973. “An Outline of a System of Utilitarian Ethics” in Utilitarianism: For and Against, by J.J.C. Smart and B. Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–74.