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• Introduction


• 1: Stephen L. Darwall: Taking Account of Character and Being an Accountable Person


• 2: Claudia Card: Taking Pride in Being Bad


• 3: Kate Abramson: Character as a Mode of Evaluation


• 4: Jack Woods: The Normative Force of Promising


• 5: Hallie Liberto: Promissory Obligation: Against a Unified Account


• 6: Susan Wolf: Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism


• 7: David Schmidtz: After Solipsism


• 8: Barry Maguire: Extrinsic Value and the Separability of Reasons


• 9: Kenneth Walden: The Relativity of Ethical Explanation


• 10: Paul Hurley: Two Senses of Moral Verdict and Moral Overridingness


• 11: Erich Hatala Matthes: Love in Spite of


• 12: Gilbert Harman: Moral Reasoning

Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Morality Without Foundations (OUP, 1998) and co-editor of Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays (OUP, 2013) and Reason, Value, and Respect: Kantian Themes from the Philsophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr. (OUP, 2015).