"This first book-length discussion of the "gray area" in ethics challenges the assumption that rightness and wrongness are binary properties. Including discussions of white lies and the permissibility of abortion, it introduces gradualist notions of right and wrong designed to answer practical questions about the gray area in ethics"--

Martin Peterson holds the Sue G. and Harry E. Bovay, Jr. Chair in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A & M University. He is the author of The Dimensions of Consequentialism (Cambridge University Press, 2013), An Introduction to Decision Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed 2017), The Ethics of Technology (2017), and Engineering Ethics (2019).

Preface; Introduction; 1. Meaning tracks use; 2. Conflicting reasons; 3. Conflicting sources of normativity; 4. The binary theory; 5. Moral indeterminacy and vagueness; 6. Normative ethics for gradualists; 7. Rational choice for gradualists; 8. Indeterminate and vague laws; 9. Depolarization; Conclusions; References; Index.