Author Biography:
Harry J. Gensler is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University. He is the authir of Gödel's Theorem Simplified (1984, Logic: Analyzing and Appraising Arguments (1989), Symbolic Logic: Classical and Advanced Systems (1990), Formal Ethics (1996), and Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (1998).

Ethics: Contemporary Readings is designed to lead any student into the subject and does so through carefully selected classic and contemporary articles. The book includes articles by the leading figures in the field and provides an excellent entry to the topic. The book complements Harry Gensler's Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 1998).

Articles are arranged under the following headings:
* Initial Approaches to Morality
* Further Approaches to Morality
* Ethical Methodology
* Normative Theory
* Applied Ethics

Articles by the following thinkers are included:
Benedict Gensler Tokmenko Hume
Nagel C.S. Lewis G.E. Moore W.D. Ross
A.J. Ayer J.L. Mackie R.M. Hare Sartre
Frankena Habermas Kant Hetzler
Ricoeur Nietzsche Luther King Kohlberg
J.S. Mill J.J.C. Smart Williams Brandt
W.D. Ross Finnis Rawls Nozick
Aristotle MacIntyre Slote Thomson
Callahan Singer O'Neill Callicott

The volume is prefaced by two extensive introductions by the editors and each article is also situated by an explanatory passage. This volume will be ideal for any student taking a course or module in ethics.

Ethics: Contemporary Readings is designed to lead any student into the subject, through carefully selected classic and contemporary articles. The book includes articles by the leading figures in the field and provides an excellent entry to the topic. The book complements Harry Gensler's Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).