The Good, the Right, Life and Death

Kris McDaniel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, USA. Jason R. Raibley is Teaching Associate in Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA. Richard Feldman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA. Michael J. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA.

Contents: Introduction, Jason R. Raibley. Part I The Good: Desert as fit: an axiomatic analysis, Gustaf Arrhenius; Incomparability and measurement of value, Erik Carlson; Indeterminate desert, Shelly Kagan; Indeterminate value, basic value, and summation, Noah M. Lemos; Feldman's hedonism, L.W. Sumner. Part II The Right: Feldman, rule-consequentialism, and desert, Brad Hooker; Adjusting utility for justice: a reexamination of the connections between desert and intrinsic value, Owen McLeod; What consequentialism is not, Ingmar Persson; The relevance of risk to wrongdoing, Michael J. Zimmerman. Part III Life and Death: Dispositions toward counterfactuals in ethics, Earl Conee; Earlier birth and later death: symmetry through thick and thin, John Martin Fischer; Revivifying Aristotle on life, Gareth B. Matthews; The Lucretian argument, Jeff McMahan; Reassessing immortality: the Makropulos case revisited, Jay F. Rosenberg. Bibliography; Index.