James Rachels (1941–2003)

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1. James Rachels

   Author of The Elements of Moral Philosophy, Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism, Moral Problems: A Collection of Philosophical Essays

2. Peter Singer

   Author of Practical Ethics, A Companion to Ethics (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy), A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation

3. David Hume

   Author of A Treatise of Human Nature, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, An inquiry concerning human understanding: With a supplement, An abstract of A treatise of human nature (The Library of

4. Immanuel Kant

   Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

5. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

6. Gregory Pence

   Author of A Dictionary of Common Philosophical Terms

7. Thomas Nagel

   Author of Mortal Questions, The View From Nowhere, The Possibility of Altruism

8. R.M. Hare

   Author of The Language of Morals, Sorting Out Ethics, Essays on Political Morality

9. Alasdair MacIntyre

   Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century

10. Bernard Williams

    Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Canto), Problems of the Self

11. Robert Audi

    Author of The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

12. Tom L. Beauchamp

    Author of Ethical Theory and Business, Ethics and public policy

13. A. J. Ayer

    Author of Language, Truth and Logic

14. John Stuart Mill

    Author of Utilitarianism

15. W. V. Quine

    Author of From a Logical Point of View: 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays, Philosophy of Logic, The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Revised Edition

16. Christine M. Korsgaard

    Author of The Sources of Normativity, Creating the Kingdom of Ends

17. Patrick J. Hurley

    Author of A Concise Introduction to Logic

18. Gilbert Harman

    Author of The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics, Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity, Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind

19. Ronald Dworkin

    Author of Law's Empire, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality, A Matter of Principle

20. G. E. Moore

    Author of Principia Ethica