Postgraduate Reading List

MA Contemporary Ethics

Preparatory Reading List for the Programme (especially for the first core module CET401 Foundations of Ethics)

The purpose of providing this list is to encourage you to do some preparatory reading. The books listed here are general and cover both philosophical ethics as well as, more specifically, religious (especially, Christian Ethics). They provide a good introduction to the discourse you will be exploring in your MA programme, especially to the first core module you will be studying. It is unlikely (and perhaps impossible) that you will be able to read more than two publications, so please choose one book from each category the list.

Philosophical/General Ethics

Baggini, Julian and Fosl, Peter.  The Ethics Toolkit, Blackwell 2007.  

Beachamp, Tom L. Philosophical Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. 2000 (3)

Blackburn, Simon. Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics, Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks, 2002.

Bonevac, Daniel. Today's Moral Issues: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. Boston MA: McGraw-Hill,  2005 (5)

Richard Norman. The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998(2).

Religious (including Christian) Ethics

Cahill, Lisa Sowle, and James F. Childress (eds). Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects, Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1996

Gill, Robin (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000

Hoose, Bernard (ed.) Christian Ethics: An Introduction, London: Continuum, 1998.

MacNamara, Vincent. The Call to Be Human: Making Sense of Morality, Dublin: Veritas, 2010.

Schweiker, William (ed), The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.