Reason, Value, and Respect Kantian Themes from the Philosophy of Thomas E. Hill, Jr.

by Timmons, Mark; Johnson, Robert N.

• ISBN13: 9780199699575
• ISBN10: 0199699577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mark Timmons, University of Arizona, Tucson,Robert N. Johnson, University of Missouri, Columbia

Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is author of Morality without Foundations (OUP, 1999), editor of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: Interpretative Essays (OUP, 2002), co-editor of Metaethics After Moore (OUP, 2006), and of Kant on Practical Justification (OUP, 2013), and editor of Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, published annually.


Robert Johnson is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Johnson's PhD dissertation was written under the supervision Thomas E. Hill, Jr. at UNC Chapel Hill in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Respect and Self-Respect
1. Servility and Self-Respect: An African American and Feminist Critique, Bernard Boxill and Jan Boxill
2. Humility, Arrogance, and Self-Respect in Kant and Hill, Robin S. Dillon
3. Respect as Honor and as Accountability, Stephen Darwall
II. Practical Reason
4. Hypothetical Imperatives: Scope and Jurisdiction, Mark Schroeder
5. More Right than Wrong, Jonathan Dancy
6. Autonomy and Public Reason in Kant, Onora O'Neill
III. Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
7. Private and Public Conscience (Or, Is the Sanctity of Conscience a Liberal Commitment or an Anarchical Fallacy?), Gerald Gaus
8. Kant on Three Defenses in the Law of Homicide, Jeffrie G. Murphy
9. Virtue, Repugnance, and Deontology, Matt Zwolinski and David Schmidtz
10. But What About the Animals?, Cheshire Calhoun
IV. Kant's Ethics
11. The Supererogatory and Kant's Imperfect Duties, Marcia Baron
12. Did Kant Hold that Rational Volition is Sub Ratione Boni?, Andrews Reath
13. Kantian Complicity, Julia Driver
V. Conclusion
14. Looking Back: Main Themes and Appreciation, Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
The Writings of Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
Index