This volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot¿s later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics. The chapters address questions about how Foot relates judgments of moral goodness to human nature, how Foot understands happiness, and addresses objections to her framework from the perspective of empirical biology. The volume will be of value to any student or scholar with an interest in virtue ethics and analytic moral philosophy.

1. Introduction; John Hacker-Wright.- 2. The Grammar of Goodness in Foot's Ethical Naturalism; Rosalind Hursthouse.- 3. How to be an Ethical Naturalist; Jennifer A. Frey.- 4. Practically Self-Conscious Life; Matthias Haase.- 5. Traditional Naturalism; Kristina Gehrman.- 6. "Why Should I?"; Anselm W. Müller.- 7. The Deep and the Shallow; Gavin Lawrence.- 8. Foot's Grammar of Goodness; Micah Lott.- 9. Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection; Parisa Moosavi.- Index.

John Hacker-Wright is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of
Philippa Foot's Moral Thought
(2013) and many papers on virtue ethics and neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism. He is editor of the
Journal of Value Inquiry.