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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY

T H E V I R T U A L I S S U E
An Aristotelian Society Publication

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Ben Colburn
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J. H. Muirhead
G. F. Stout
S. Alexander
E. E. Constance Jones
G. C. Field
Margaret MacDonald
C C. D. Broad
Michael Tanner
Mary Midgley
Onora O’Neill
Robert Stern
Philip Stratton-Lake
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Frank Jackson
Brad Hooker
Justin Clarke-Doane
Lorna Finlayson
Robert Cowan
Anna Bergqvist
Roger Crisp
Connie Rosati
Sophie Grace Chappell
Jimmy Lenman
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table of contents
Classic
the language of
methods in ethics:
political theory
introduction
Margaret MacDonald..106.
.19..................Ben Colburn
Commentary
‘never go to sleep’:
Classic political theory as a
is the distinction foreign language
between “is” and .126...........Lorna Finlayson
“ought” ultimate and
irreducible?
Henry Sidgwick, J. H.
Muirhead, G. F. Stout Classic
some reflections on
and S. Alexander............24.
moral-sense theories in
ethics
Commentary
is the distinction C. D. Broad..................136.
between “is” and
“ought” ultimate and Commentary
c.d. broad on moral
irreducible?
sense theories in ethics
.50................Frank Jackson
.168.............Robert Cowan
Classic
practical dualism Classic
E. E. Constance Jones....62. examples in moral
philosophy
Commentary Michael Tanner............184.
on jones’s ‘practical
dualism’ Commentary
.72..................Brad Hooker thick description
revisited: tanner on
thick concepts and
perspectivalism in value
Classic philosophy
the place of definition .202............Anna Bergqvist
in ethics
G. C. Field.....................82.
Commentary Classic
objectivity in ethics and the neutrality of the
mathematics moral philosopher
.98......Justin Clarke-Doane Mary Midgley..............218.
Commentary
in defence of (a sort of)
neutrality
.236.................Roger Crisp
Classic
constructivisms in
ethics
Onora O’Neill..............244.
Commentary
o’neill’s
‘constructivisms in
ethics’
.262..............Connie Rosati
Classic
the relation between
moral theory and
metaphysics
Robert Stern.................274.
Commentary
from metaphysics to
ethics via philosophy of
mind: three routes
.290.............. Sophie Grace
Chappell
Classic
why externalism is not
a problem for ethical
intuitionists
Philip Stratton-Lake.....310.
Commentary
why externalism is a
problem for ethical
intuitionists
.324............Jimmy Lenman

METHODS IN ETHICS: INTRODUCTION
by Ben Colburn
VIRTUAL ISSUE NO. 3 | 2015