Moral Dilemmas: and other topics in moral philosophy

by Philippa Foot

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Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches thathave dominated moral philosophy over the last show more fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states, show less

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Philippa Foot is Griffin Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford.

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Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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170Philosophy & psychologyEthicsAnimals rights, Euthanasia, Pro-life
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BJ1031 .F64Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionEthicsEthicsHistory and general works
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