Moral Theory and Anomaly by Tom Sorell
Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to women and the non-human natural world.
"In a spirited and wide-ranging defence of ethical theory, Sorell combines sympathetic understanding and penetrating criticismBoth sceptics about theory and proponents of new paradigms will need to engage with his arguments."
--Jimmy Altham, University of Cambridge
--Jimmy Altham, University of Cambridge
"Sorell convincingly shows how certain issues in applied ethics create anomalies. Do these anomalies result in a justified scepticism toward traditional ethical theory? No, but the claims of traditional theory must be more modest. A subtle and persuasive piece of philosophy."
--Norman Bowie, The London Business School
Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. In 1996-7 he was Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University and he has published extensively in moral theory and applied ethics, philosophy of science and the history and historiography of early modern philosophy. His previous books include Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (Blackwell, 1987); Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science (1991); and Hobbes (1986).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631218340 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631218343 |
| Title | Moral Theory and Anomaly |
| Author | Tom Sorell |
| Series | Aristotelian Society Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1999-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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