Series: Ratio Special Issues

T.M. Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy of recent years. It presents distinctive views on reasons, value, and well-being, and offers a contractualist account of moral wrongness and significance. It has initiated debates on the nature of value, the role of well-being, how numbers matter in deciding what we...

The body has often been neglected in favour of the mind by philosophers. However, interest is growing in the philosophical consequences of human embodiedness. This timely collection brings together new discussions of the body from seven leading contributors with a wide variety of philosophical outlooks. The papers address the role of the body in the concept of the self, in...