T. M. Scanlon

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1. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

2. Bernard Williams

   Author of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Shame and Necessity (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol 57), Moral Luck

3. Thomas Nagel

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

4. Samuel Scheffler

   Author of Consequentialism and Its Critics (Oxford Readings in Philosophy), The Rejection of Consequentialism: A Philosophical Investigation of the Considerations Underlying Rival Moral Conception, Human Morality

5. T. M. Scanlon

   Author of What We Owe to Each Other, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame, The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy

6. Allan Gibbard

   Author of Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgment, Thinking How to Live, Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics (Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

7. Derek Parfit

   Author of Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks), On What Matters: Volume I, On What Matters, Vol. 2

8. Christine M. Korsgaard

   Author of The Sources of Normativity

9. Michael Smith

   Author of The Moral Problem (Philosophical Theory), Ethics and the A Priori: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Meta-Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)

10. Donald Davidson

    Author of Essays on Actions and Events, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective (Philosophical Essays of Donald Davidson)

11. David Gauthier

    Author of Morals By Agreement

12. Jonathan Dancy

    Author of Ethics without Principles

13. Robert Nozick

    Author of The Nature of Rationality

14. W. D. Ross

    Author of The Right and the Good

15. Allen W. Wood

    Author of Hegel's Ethical Thought

16. Joseph Raz

    Author of The Morality of Freedom (Clarendon Paperbacks)

17. Judith Jarvis Thomson

    Author of The Realm of Rights, Normativity (The Paul Carus Lectures)

18. Henry Sidgwick

    Author of Methods of Ethics

19. Samuel Freeman

    Author of The Cambridge Companion to Rawls

20. Norman Daniels

    Author of Reading Rawls: Critical Studies on Rawls' "A Theory of Justice"