The following collection of twenty-three essays summarizes my views on ethics and normativity, after a thirty year career in philosophy and in the wake of my recent retirement from teaching at Missouri State University.
[1] Some Questions about Obligation
[2] On a Metaphor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
[4] Prescription, Reason, and Force
[6] Standards
[7] Thinking about the “Impermissible”
[8] Chapter Two of The Right and the Good, by W.D. Ross (1930)
[10] The Special Standing of Moral Skepticism
[11] On Our Use of the Moral Idiom
[12] “Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?” by H.A. Prichard (1912)
[13] Caring and Catering
[14] A Foolish Impartiality is the Hobgoblin of Moral Philosophy
[15] Morality Everywhere?
[16] “Modern Moral Philosophy,” by G.E.M Anscombe (1958)
[17] Loved not Owed
[18] Virtue at Others’ Expense
[19] Self-Sufficiency and Human Flourishing
[20] Lives and Principles
[21] Hedonism
[23] “The Human Prejudice,” by Bernard Williams (1985)
