Moral dilemmas and other topics in moral philosophy

In this collection - essays from the late 1970s to the '90s - Professor Foot develops further her critique of the dominant ethical theories of the second half of the 20th century including discussion of the nature of moral judgement, practical rationality and the conflict of virtue with desire

Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001. Moral Dilemmas presents the best of Professor Foot's work from the late 1970s to the 1990s. In these essays she develops further her influential critique of the 'non-cognitivist' approaches thathave dominated moral philosophy over the last fifty years. She shows why it is a mistake to think of morality in terms of special psychological states