Further Reading

A single textbook is never enough when studying a course. You need to read around the subject and encounter the work of different writers and thinkers. This chapter by chapter list provides a wide range of suggestions for further reading.

Ahluwalia, L. Foundation for the Study of Religion, London, Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2001.

Barclay, W. Ethics in a Permissive Society, London, Collins, 1971.

Kirkwood, R. ‘Ethical Theory’, in Dialogue (Special Issue), 2002.

Thompson, M. Ethical Theory, London, Hodder Murray, 2005.

Vardy, P. and Grosch, P. The Puzzle of Ethics, London, Fount, 1999.

Aquinas, T. ‘Summa Theologiae’, in Basic Writings of Thomas Aquinas, Pegis, A.C. (ed.), Hackett, Indianapolis, Random House, 1997.

Hughes, G. ‘Natural Law’, in Christian Ethics: An Introduction, Hoose, B. (ed.), London, Cassell, 1998.

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Maguire, D. Death by Choice, New York, Image Books, 1984.

Pojman, L.P. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Toronto, Wadsworth, 2002.

Kant, I. ‘Groundwork of a Metaphysics of Morals’, in The Moral Law, Paton, H.J. (trans.), London, Routledge, 2005.

MacIntyre, A. A Short History of Ethics, London, Routledge, 1968.

Norman, R. The Moral Philosophers, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Pojman, L.P. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Toronto, Wadsworth, 2002.

Ross, W.D. The Right and the Good, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1930, 2002.

Scruton, R. Kant, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1982.

Ward, K. The Development of Kant’s View of Ethics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1972.

Bentham, J. Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Harrison, W. (ed.), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1948.

Gensler, H., Earl, W. and Swindal, J. Ethics: Contemporary Readings, New York/London, Routledge, 2004 (contains original writings of many classic and contemporary philosophers).

Mill, J.S. Utilitarianism, Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, [1861, 1863], 2002.

Norman, R. The Moral Philosophers, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998.

Pojman, L.P. Ethical Theory, Toronto, Wadsworth, 1989.

Pojman, L.P. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Toronto, Wadsworth, 2002.

Pojman, L.P. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (5th edition), Belmont, CA, Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.

Singer, P. Practical Ethics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Smart, J.J.C. and Williams, B. Utilitarianism: For and Against, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973.

Cook, D. The Moral Maze, London, SPCK, 1983.

Hoose, B. (ed.) Christian Ethics: An Introduction, London, Cassell, 1998 – contains an excellent chapter on the Bible and Christian ethics by Tom Deidum.

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Plato, ‘Euthyphro’, in The Last Days of Socrates, Tredennick, H. (trans.), London, Penguin, 1969.

Rachels, J. and Rachels, S. The Elements of Moral Philosophy, New York, McGraw-Hill, 2007.

Glover, J. Causing Death and Saving Lives, London, Penguin, 1990.

Hinman, L. ‘Ethics Updates’, available at http://ethics.sandiego.edu/.

Kuhse, H. ‘Why Killing Is Not Always Worse – and Sometimes Better – than Letting Die’, in Bioethics – An Anthology, Kuhse, H. and Singer, P. (eds), Oxford, Blackwell, 1999.

Lafollette, H. (ed.) Ethics in Practice – An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002 (contains articles by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Mary Anne Warren and Rosalind Hursthouse on abortion).

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Singer, P. Rethinking Life and Death, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Cook, D. The Moral Maze, London, SPCK, 1983.

Glover, J. Causing Death and Saving Lives, London, Penguin, 1990.

Hinman, L. ‘Ethics Updates’, available at http://ethics.sandiego.edu/.

Kuhse, H. and Singer, P. (eds) Bioethics – An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999 (contains articles by Jonathan Glover, Germain Grisez and Joseph Boyle, James Rachels and Helga Kuhse).

Lafollette, H. (ed.) Ethics in Practice – An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002.

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Singer, P. Practical Ethics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Singer, P. Rethinking Life and Death, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Warnock, M. An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics, London, Duckworth, 1999.

Wilcockson, M. Issues of Life and Death, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Deane-Drummond, C. (ed.) Brave New World, London/New York, T&T Clark, 2003.

Deane-Drummond, C. Genetics and Christian Ethics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Glover, J. Causing Death and Saving Lives, London, Penguin, 1990.

Hinman, L. ‘Ethics Updates’, available at http://ethics.sandiego.edu/.

Kuhse, H. and Singer, P. (eds) Bioethics – An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999.

Lafollette, H. (ed.) Ethics in Practice – An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002.

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Peters, T. Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom, London, Routledge, 1997.

Song, R. Human Genetics: Fabricating the Future, London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 2002.

Anscombe, G.E.M. ‘War and Murder’ in Moral Problems, Palmer, M., Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1991.

Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologiae II–II q.40 (Dominican translation), London, Burns & Oates, 1936.

Coates, A. The Ethics of War, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997.

Coppieters, B. and Fotion, N. (eds) Moral Constraints on War, New York/Oxford, Lexington Books, 2002.

Glover, J. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2000.

Holmes, R. On War and Morality, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1989.

Niebuhr, R. Moral Man and Immoral Societies, New York, Scribner, 1932.

Norman, R. Ethics, Killing and War, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Rawls, J. A Theory of Justice, Harvard, MA, Harvard University Press, 1971.

Wilcockson, M. Issues of Life and Death, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Ahluwalia, L. Foundation for the Study of Religion, London, Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2001.

Ayer, A.J. Language, Truth and Logic, London, Penguin [1936], 2001.

Gensler, H. Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction, NewYork/London, Routledge, 1998.

Gensler, H., Earl, W. and Swindal, J. Ethics: Contemporary Readings, New York/London, Routledge, 2004 (see also his website for good multiple-choice exercises to check understanding and knowledge at http://www.harryhiker.com/exercise.htm).

Hare, R.M. Freedom and Reason, London, Clarendon Press, 1963.

Hare, R.M. The Language of Morals, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1952.

Palmer, M. Moral Problems, Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1991 (see the appendix for meta-ethics).

Pojman, L.P. Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, Toronto, Wadsworth, 2002.

Ross, W.D. The Right and the Good, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1930.

Stevenson, C.L. Ethics and Language, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1945.

Ahluwalia, L. Foundation for the Study of Religion, London, Hodder & Stoughton Educational, 2001.

Crisp, R. and Slote, M. Virtue Ethics, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hinman, L. ‘Ethics Updates’ available at http://ethics.sandiego.edu/.

Hursthouse, R. On Virtue Ethics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Hursthouse, R. Ethics, Humans and Other Animals, London, Routledge, 2000.

Keenan, J. ‘Virtue Ethics’, in Christian Ethics: An Introduction, Hoose, B. (ed.), London, Cassell, 1998.

Lafollette, H. (ed.) Ethics in Practice –An Anthology, Oxford, Blackwell, 2002.

MacIntyre, A. After Virtue, London, Duckworth, 1985.

Rosenstand, N. The Moral of the Story (5th edn), New York, McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Ross, W.D. (trans.) The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. J. Barnes, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1984.

Vardy, P. and Grosch, P. The Puzzle of Ethics, London, Fount, 1999.

Honderich, T. How Free Are You?, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1993.

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Palmer, M. Moral Problems, Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1991.

Van Inwagen, P. An Essay on Free Will, Cambridge, Clarendon Press, 1983.

Baelz, P. Ethics and Belief, New York, Seabury Press, 1977.

Bolt, R. A Man for All Seasons, London, Methuen, [1960] 1996.

Gill, R. A Textbook of Christian Ethics, London/New York, T&T Clark, 1995.

Gula, R. Reason Informed by Faith, New Jersey, Paulist Press, 1989.

Hodge, R. What’s Conscience For?, London, Daughters of St Paul, 1995.

Macquarrie, J. and Childress, J. A New Dictionary of Christian Ethics, London, SCM, 1986.

Maguire, D. The Moral Choice, New York, HarperCollins, 1979.

Mahoney, J. Seeking the Spirit: Essays in Moral and Pastoral Theology, London, Sheen & Ward, 1981.

O’Connell, T. Principles for a Catholic Morality (revised edn), New York, HarperCollins, 1990.

Preston, R. ‘Conscience’, in A Dictionary of Christian Ethics, Macquarrie, J. (ed.), London, SCM, 1967.

Rulan, V. An Ethics of Global Rights and Religious Pluralism, San Francisco, CA, University of San Francisco Press, 2003.

Singer, P. (ed.) A Companion to Ethics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994.

Benson, J. Environmental Ethics, London, Routledge, 2000.

Bowie, N.E. Business Ethics: A Kantian Perspective, Oxford Blackwell, 1999.

Chryssides, G. and Kaler, J. Essentials of Business Ethics, London Mc Graw-Hill, 1996.

Devall, B. and Sessions, G., Deep Ecology, Salt Lake City, Gibbs M. Smith, 1987.

Dregson, A. and Inoue, Y. (eds) The Deep Ecology Movement: An Introductory

Anthology, Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 1995.

Frederick, R. A Companion to Business Ethics, Oxford, Blackwell, 1999.

Leopold, A. A Sand County Almanac, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press,

1968.

Lovelock, J. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979.

Pearce, D., Markandya, A. and Barbier, E.B., Blue Print for a Green Economy, London,

Earthscan, 1989.

Singer, P. Practical Ethics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Singer, P. ‘All Animals Are Equal’ in Sterba, J. (ed.) Ethics: The Big Questions, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998.

Singer, P. One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Yale, Yale University Press, 2004.

Solomon, R.C. Ethics and Excellence, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press 1993.

Taylor, P. ‘The Ethics of Respect for Nature’ in Sterba, J. (ed.) Ethics: The Big Questions, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998.

Walker, J. Environmental Ethics, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000.

Warren, K. ‘The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism’ in Sterba, J. (ed.) Ethics: The Big Questions, Blackwell, Oxford, 1998.

Bellioti, R. Good Sex: Perspectives on Sexual Ethics, Kansas, University Press of Kansas, 1993.

Blackburn, S. Lust, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Holloway, R. Godless Morality, Edinburgh, Canongate, 1999.

Hursthouse, R. On Virtue Ethics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Kant, I. Lectures on Ethics, Heath, P. and Schneewind, J.B. (eds), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Moore, G. ‘Sex, Sexuality and Relationships’, in Christian Ethics: An Introduction, Hoose, B. (ed.), London/New York, Cassell, 1998.

Slote, M. Morals from Motives, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2001.

Vardy, P. The Puzzle of Sex, London, Fount, 1997.