Values and Morals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Mill’s Theory of Justice

   • David Lyons

   Pages 1-20

3. The Interest in Liberty on the Scales

   • Joel Feinberg

   Pages 21-35

4. On the Nature of Moral Values

   • W. V. Quine

   Pages 37-45

5. The Basic Structure as Subject

   • John Rawls

   Pages 47-71

6. Relevance

   • R. M. Hare

   Pages 73-90

7. Act-Utilitarian Agreements

   • Allan Gibbard

   Pages 91-119

8. Intrinsic Value

   • Roderick M. Chisholm

   Pages 121-130

9. The Goals of Action

   • J. O. Urmson

   Pages 131-141

10. What is Moral Relativism?

    • Gilbert Harman

    Pages 143-161

11. Intending

    • Monroe C. Beardsley

    Pages 163-184

12. Doing the Best One Can

    • Holly S. Goldman

    Pages 185-214

13. Are Epistemic Concepts Reducible to Ethical Concepts?

    • Roderick Firth

    Pages 215-229

14. Moral Reasons and Reasons to be Moral

    • Kurt Baier

    Pages 231-256

15. Moral and Other Realisms: Some Initial Difficulties

    • Warren S. Quinn

    Pages 257-273

16. Meta-Ethics and Meta-Epistemology

    • William P. Alston

    Pages 275-297

17. Some Problems in the Definition and Justification of Punishment

    • Richard Wasserstrom

    Pages 299-315

18. Back Matter

    Pages 317-333

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This Festschrift seeks to honor three highly distinguished scholars in the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan: William K. Frankena, Charles L. Stevenson, and Richard B. Brandt. Each has made significant con­ tributions to the philosophic literature, particularly in the field of ethics. Michigan has been fortunate in having three such original and productive moral philosophers serving ob its faculty simultaneously. Yet they stand in a long tradition of excellence, both within the Department and in the University. Let us trace that tradition briefly. The University of Michigan opened in 184l.lts Department of Literature, Science, and the Arts at first resembled a typical American college ofthat period, with religious and ethical indoctrination playing a central role in course offerings. But when Henry Tappan, a Presbyterian clergyman and Professor of philosophy, became President in 1852, he succeeded in shifting the emphasis from indoctrination to inquiry and scholarship. Though he was dismissed for his policies in 1863, Tappan's efforts to establish a broad and liberal curriculum prevailed. Michigan was to take its place among the leading educational institutions in this country, and to achieve an international reputation as a research center. Several past philosophers are worthy of mention here. George Sylvester Morris, an absolute idealist, joined the Department in 1881, having served from 1870 as Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages and Literature. He assumed the Chairmanship of Philosophy in 1884.

• 1870
• English literature
• concept
• ethics
• freedom
• literature
• meta-ethics
• morality
• nature
• philosophy
• reason
• relativism
• structure
• subject
• tradition

• The University of Michigan, USA

  Alvin I. Goldman, Jaegwon Kim

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