Modern ethics in 77 arguments: a Stone reader

ON EXISTENCE

The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May

There is no theory of everything / Simon Critchley

The light at the end of suffering / Peg O'Connor

Being there: Heidegger on why our presence matters / Lawrence Berger

Against invulnerability / Todd May

Why life is absurd / Rivka Weinberg

A life beyond "do what you love" / Gordon Marino

ON HUMAN NATURE

Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson

Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton

Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg

Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton

How should we respond to "evil"? / Steven Paulikas

The moral logic of survivor guilt / Nancy Sherman

How to live without irony / Christy Wampole

Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander

ON MORALITY

The dangers of happiness / Carl Cederström

Are we ready for a "morality pill"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan

Why our children don't think there are moral facts / Justin P. McBrayer

Morals without God? / Frans de Waal

The dangers of certainty: a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley

Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks

The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian

Can moral disputes be resolved? / Alex Rosenberg

Moral dispute or cultural difference? / Carol Rovane

ON RELIGION

Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly

Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting

Good minus God / Louise M. Antony

Pascal's wager 2.0 / Gary Gutting

The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki

Why God is a moral issue / Michael Ruse

The rigor of love / Simon Critchley

God is a question, not an answer / William Irwin

What's wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March

ON GOVERNMENT

Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan

Is our patriotism moral? / Gary Gutting

The irrationality of natural life sentences / Jennifer Lackey

Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler

If war can have ethics, Wall Street can, too / Nathaniel B. Davis

The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps

Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch

ON CITIZENSHIP

The morality of migration / Seyla Benhabib

What do we owe each other? / Aaron James Wendland

Can refugees have human rights? / Omri Boehm

Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan

Is voting out of self-interest wrong? / Gary Gutting

ON VIOLENCE

Philosophizing with guns / Simone Gubler

A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman

Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting

The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander

Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May

ON RACE

Walking while black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy

Race, truth and our two realities / Chris Lebron

Getting past the outrage on race / Gary Gutting

Philosophy's Western bias / Justin E.H. Smith

Dear White America / George Yancy

Of cannibals, kings and culture: the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson

What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? / Chris Lebron

Is real inclusiveness possible? / Justin E.H. Smith

ON WOMEN

When prostitution is nobody's business / Laurie Shrage

On abortion and defining a "person" / Gary Gutting

Girlfriend, mother, professor? / Carol Hay

The disappearing women / Rae Langton

A feminist Kant / Carol Hay

ON FAMILY

Think before you breed / Christine Overall

Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage

"Mommy wars" redux: a false conflict / Amy Allen

The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage

My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust / Jason Stanley

ON EATING

The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan

If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder

When vegans won't compromise / Bob Fischer and James McWilliams

The enigma of animal suffering / Rhys Southan

ON THE FUTURE

Is humanity getting better? / Leif Wenar

Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer

What do we owe the future? / Patricia I. Vieira and Michael Marder

The importance of the afterlife. Seriously. / Samuel Scheffler

Accepting the past, facing the future / Todd May.

On violence. Philosophizing with guns / Simone Gubler

A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman

Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting

The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander

Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May

On race. Walking while black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy

Race, truth and our two realities / Chris Lebron

Getting past the outrage on race / Gary Gutting

Philosophy's Western bias / Justin E.H. Smith

Dear White America / George Yancy

Of cannibals, kings and culture : the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson

What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? / Chris Lebron

Is real inclusiveness possible? / Justin E.H. Smith

On women. When prostitution is nobody's business / Laurie Shrage

On abortion and defining a "person" / Gary Gutting

Girlfriend, mother, professor? / Carol Hay

The disappearing women / Rae Langton

A feminist Kant / Carol Hay

On family. Think before you breed / Christine Overall

Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage

"Mommy wars" redux : a false conflict / Amy Allen

The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage

My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust / Jason Stanley

On eating. The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan

If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder

When vegans won't compromise / Bob Fischer and James McWilliams

The enigma of animal suffering / Rhys Southan

On the future. Is humanity getting better? / Leif Wenar

Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer

What do we owe the future? / Patricia I. Vieira and Michael Marder

The importance of the afterlife, seriously / Samuel Scheffler

Accepting the past, facing the future / Todd May.

On existence. The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May

There is no theory of everything / Simon Critchley

The light at the end of suffering / Peg O'Connor

Being there: Heidegger on why our presence matters / Lawrence Berger

Against invulnerability / Todd May

Why life is absurd / Rivka Weinberg

A life beyond "do what you love" / Gordon Marino

On human nature. Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson

Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton

Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg

Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton

How should we respond to "evil"? / Steven Paulikas

The moral logic of survivor guilt / Nancy Sherman

How to live without irony / Christy Wampole

Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander

ON MORALITY

The dangers of happiness / Carl Cederström

Are we ready for a "morality pill"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan

Why our children don't think there are moral facts / Justin P. McBrayer

Morals without God? / Frans de Waal

The dangers of certainty : a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley

Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks

The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian

Can moral disputes be resolved? / Alex Rosenberg

Moral dispute or cultural difference? / Carol Rovane

On religion. Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly

Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting

Good minus God / Louise M. Antony

Pascal's wager 2.0 / Gary Gutting

The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki

Why God is a moral issue / Michael Ruse

The rigor of love / Simon Critchley

God is a question, not an answer / William Irwin

What's wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March

On government Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan

Is our patriotism moral? / Gary Gutting

The irrationality of natural life sentences / Jennifer Lackey

Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler

If war can have ethics, Wall Street can, too / Nathaniel B. Davis

The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps

Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch

On citizenship. The morality of migration / Seyla Benhabib

What do we owe each other? / Aaron James Wendland

Can refugees have human rights? / Omri Boehm

Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan

Is voting out of self-interest wrong? / Gary Gutting.