Millgram Elijah. Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory

Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 358 p.Ethics Done Right examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory. Elijah Millgram shows that the key to thinking about ethics is to understand more generally how to make decisions. The papers in this volume support a methodological approach and trace the connections between two kinds of theory in utilitarianism, in Kantian ethics, in virtue ethics, in Hume’s moral philosophy, and in moral particularism. Unlike other studies of ethics, Ethics Done Right does not advocate a particular moral theory. Rather, it offers a tool that enables one to decide for oneself.
Elijah Millgram is E. E. Ericksen Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. He is the author of Practical Induction and the editor of Varieties of Practical Reasoning. He has written on moral philosophy, coherence theory, and late British Empiricism. He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and of the National Endowment for the Humanities.