This volume provides a wide-ranging and lucid introducing to the major ethical theories found in the history of Western philosophy.

The author is Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University. His publications in Rationalism, Realism, and Relativism (1990). He was co-editor (with H.J. Glock) of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigation (1991) and Wittgenstein and Quine (1996). He is the editor of the Companion to the Philosophers (Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming).