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Index
VOLUME ONE
INTRODUCTION by Samuel Scheffler
PREFACE
SUMMARY
PART ONE REASONS
1 NORMATIVE CONCEPTS
1 Normative Reasons
2 Reason-Involving Goodness
2 OBJECTIVE THEORIES
3 Two Kinds of Theory
4 Responding to Reasons
5 State-Given Reasons
6 Hedonic Reasons
7 Irrational Preferences
3 SUBJECTIVE THEORIES
8 Subjectivism about Reasons
9 Why People Accept Subjective Theories
10 Analytical Subjectivism
11 The Agony Argument
4 FURTHER ARGUMENTS
12 The All or None Argument
13 The Incoherence Argument
14 Reasons, Motives, and Well-Being
15 Arguments for Subjectivism
5 RATIONALITY
16 Practical and Epistemic Rationality
17 Beliefs about Reasons
18 Other Views about Rationality
6 MORALITY
19 Sidgwick’s Dualism
20 The Profoundest Problem
7 MORAL CONCEPTS
21 Acting in Ignorance or with False Beliefs
22 Other Kinds of Wrongness
PART TWO PRINCIPLES
8 POSSIBLE CONSENT
23 Coercion and Deception
24 The Consent Principle
25 Reasons to Give Consent
26 A Superfluous Principle?
27 Actual Consent
28 Deontic Beliefs
29 Extreme Demands
9 MERELY AS A MEANS
30 The Mere Means Principle
31 As a Means and Merely as a Means
32 Harming as a Means
10 RESPECT AND VALUE
33 Respect for Persons
34 Two Kinds of Value
35 Kantian Dignity
36 The Right and the Good
37 Promoting the Good
11 FREE WILL AND DESERT
38 The Freedom that Morality Requires
39 Why We Cannot Deserve to Suffer
PART THREE THEORIES
12 UNIVERSAL LAWS
40 The Impossibility Formula
41 The Law of Nature and Moral Belief Formulas
42 The Agent’s Maxim
13 WHAT IF EVERYONE DID THAT?
43 Each-We Dilemmas
44 The Threshold Objection
45 The Ideal World Objections
14 IMPARTIALITY
46 The Golden Rule
47 The Rarity and High Stakes Objections
48 The Non-Reversibility Objection
49 A Kantian Solution
15 CONTRACTUALISM
50 The Rational Agreement Formula
51 Rawlsian Contractualism
52 Kantian Contractualism
53 Scanlonian Contractualism
54 The Deontic Beliefs Restriction
16 CONSEQUENTIALISM
55 Consequentialist Theories
56 Consequentialist Maxims
57 The Kantian Argument
58 Self-Interested Reasons
59 Altruistic and Deontic Reasons
60 The Wrong-Making Features Objection
61 Decisive Non-Deontic Reasons
62 What Everyone Could Rationally Will
17 CONCLUSIONS
63 Kantian Consequentialism
64 Climbing the Mountain
APPENDICES
A STATE-GIVEN REASONS
B RATIONAL IRRATIONALITY AND GAUTHIER’S THEORY
C DEONTIC REASONS
Notes to Volume One
References
Bibliography
Index
PREFACE
SUMMARY
VOLUME TWO
PART FOUR COMMENTARIES
HIKING THE RANGE SUSAN WOLF
HUMANITY AS END IN ITSELF ALLEN WOOD
A MISMATCH OF METHODS BARBARA HERMAN
HOW I AM NOT A KANTIAN T. M. SCANLON
PART FIVE RESPONSES
18 ON HIKING THE RANGE
65 Actual and Possible Consent
66 Treating Someone Merely as a Means
67 Kantian Rule Consequentialism
68 Three Traditions
19 ON HUMANITY AS AN END IN ITSELF
69 Kant’s Formulas of Autonomy and of Universal Law
70 Rational Nature as the Supreme Value
71 Rational Nature as the Value to be Respected
20 ON A MISMATCH OF METHODS
72 Does Kant’s Formula Need to be Revised?
73 A New Kantian Formula
74 Herman’s Objections to Kantian Contractualism
21 HOW THE NUMBERS COUNT
75 Scanlon’s Individualist Restriction
76 Utilitarianism, Aggregation, and Distributive Principles
22 SCANLONIAN CONTRACTUALISM
77 Scanlon’s Claims about Wrongness and the Impersonalist Restriction
78 The Non-Identity Problem
79 Scanlonian Contractualism and Future People
23 THE TRIPLE THEORY
80 The Convergence Argument
81 The Independence of Scanlon’s Theory
PART SIX NORMATIVITY
24 ANALYTICAL NATURALISM AND SUBJECTIVISM
82 Conflicting Theories
83 Analytical Subjectivism about Reasons
84 The Unimportance of Internal Reasons
85 Substantive Subjective Theories
86 Normative Beliefs
25 NON-ANALYTICAL NATURALISM
87 Moral Naturalism
88 Normative Natural Facts
89 Arguments from ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’
90 Thick-Concept Arguments
91 The Normativity Objection
26 THE TRIVIALITY OBJECTION
92 Normative Concepts and Natural Properties
93 The Analogies with Scientific Discoveries
94 The Fact Stating Argument
95 The Triviality Objection
27 NATURALISM AND NIHILISM
96 Naturalism about Reasons
97 Soft Naturalism
98 Hard Naturalism
28 NON-COGNITIVISM AND QUASI-REALISM
99 Non-Cognitivism
100 Normative Disagreements
101 Can Non-Cognitivists Explain Normative Mistakes?
29 NORMATIVITY AND TRUTH
102 Expressivism
103 Hare on What Matters
104 The Normativity Argument
30 NORMATIVE TRUTHS
105 Disagreements
106 On How We Should Live
107 Misunderstandings
108 Naturalized Normativity
109 Sidgwick’s Intuitions
110 The Voyage Ahead
111 Rediscovering Reasons
31 METAPHYSICS
112 Ontology
113 Non-Metaphysical Cognitivism
32 EPISTEMOLOGY
114 The Causal Objection
115 The Validity Argument
116 Epistemic Beliefs
33 RATIONALISM
117 Epistemic Reasons
118 Practical Reasons
119 Evolutionary Forces
34 AGREEMENT
120 The Argument from Disagreement
121 The Convergence Claim
122 The Double Badness of Suffering
35 NIETZSCHE
123 Revaluing Values
124 Good and Evil
125 The Meaning of Life
36 WHAT MATTERS MOST
126 Has It All Been Worth It?
127 The Future
APPENDICES
D WHY ANYTHING? WHY THIS?
E THE FAIR WARNING VIEW
F SOME OF KANT’S ARGUMENTS FOR HIS FORMULA OF UNIVERSAL LAW
G KANT’S CLAIMS ABOUT THE GOOD
H AUTONOMY AND CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES
I KANT’S MOTIVATIONAL ARGUMENT
J ON WHAT THERE IS
Notes to Volume Two
References
Bibliography
Index
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