Christian B. Miller is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, USA.

Updated and expanded to represent the fundamental questions at the heart of philosophical ethics today, the second edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ethics covers the key topics in metaethics and normative ethical theory. This edition includes 12 fully revised chapters, and 3 newly commissioned contributions from a range of esteemed academics who provide accessible introductions to their own areas of expertise.

The first part of the book covers the field of metaethics, including subjects such as moral realism, expressivism, constructivism, practical reason, moral psychology, experimental ethics, and evolutionary ethics, as well as two new chapters that respond to ethical debates concerning moral relativism and moral responsibility that enable students and scholars to better navigate this complicated ethical terrain. Moving onto normative ethical theory, the second part of the book ranges across morality and religion, consequentialism, and particularism, as well as Kantian, virtue, feminist, and Confucian ethics.

This comprehensive edition provides a one-stop resource for students of ethics, which includes updated detailed overviews of the field and methodological issues, as well as an appendix of additional resources, including technical terms in ethics.

Preface : How to Use this Book, Intended Audience, and Acknowledgments, Christian B. Miller, (Wake Forest University, USA)
Overview of Contemporary Meta-Ethics and Normative Ethical Theory, Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University, USA)

Methodological Issues: Reflective Equilibrium, Michael DePaul (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Part I: Central Topics in Metaethics
1. Moral Realism, John Bengson (University of Texas at Austin, USA), Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont, USA), and Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
2. Ethical Expressivism, Matthew Chrisman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
3. Constructivism and the Error Theory, Hallvard Lillehammer (University of London, UK)
4. Subjectivism, Relativism, and Contextualism, Jussi Suikkanen (University of Birmingham, UK)
5. Morality and Practical Reason, Joshua Gert (College of William and Mary, USA)
6. Moral Psychology, Alfred Mele, (Florida State University, USA)
7. Moral Responsibility, Praise, and Blame, Hannah Tierney (University of California, Davis, USA) and Robert Wallace (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, USA)
8. Experimental Ethics, Thomas Nadelhoffer (College of Charleston, USA) and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke University, USA)
9. Biology, Evolution, and Ethics, William FitzPatrick (University of Rochester, USA)

Part II: Central Approaches in Ethical Theory
10. Morality and Religion, William Wainwright (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) and Anne Jeffrey (Baylor University, USA)
11. Confucian Ethics, Jing Hu (Concordia University, Canada)
12. Consequentialism, Douglas Portmore (Arizona State University, USA)
13. Kantian Ethics, Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern University, USA) and Bennett Eckert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
14. Virtue Ethics, Christine Swanton (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
15. Feminist Ethics, Anita Superson (University of Kentucky, USA)
16. Moral Generalism and Moral Particularism, Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds, UK)

Part III: Additional Resources
Important Technical Terms in Ethics, Dan Boisvert (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA), John Brunero (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA), Sean McKeever (Davidson College, USA), Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Eric Wiland (University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA)

Resources for the Fields of Metaethics and Ethical Theory, Christian B. Miller (Wake Forest University, USA)
Notes on Contributors

Index