Modern ethics in 77 arguments: a Stone reader

ON EXISTENCE --

Meaningfulness of lives / Todd May --

There is no theory of everything / Simon Critchley --

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 --

Moral logic of survivor guilt / Nancy Sherman --

How to live without irony / Christy Wampole --

Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander --

ON MORALITY --

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 --

Dangers of certainty: a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley --

Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks --

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 --

Sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki --

Why God is a moral issue / Michael Ruse --

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 --

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 --

Moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps --

Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch --

ON CITIZENSHIP --

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 --

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 --

Disappearing woman / 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 --

End of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage --

My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust / Jason Stanley --

ON EATING --

Meat eaters / Jeff McMahan --

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

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

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 --

Importance of the afterlife. Seriously. / Samuel Scheffler --

Accepting the past, facing the future / Todd May.