Reasons and the Good

Roger Crisp belong in the company of Derek Parfit and Peter Sinder as one of the distinguished contemporary philosophical defenders of the legacy of Henry Sidgwick...This is an excellent work - clear, concise, and compelling. And it packs a powerful philosophical punch. Bart Schultz, Ethics Because the book covers such a range of issues in such a short and well integrated way, reading it will be illuminating for many...I can see ample reason for a moral philosopher to read this book: for its stimulation and sweep, and to wake one from one's dogmatic slumbers. Nod off for a second here, and you will miss crucial arguments entirely. Henry S. Richardson, Mind Crisp advances substantial theses about reasons, welfare, pleasure, moral knowledge, intuition, moral disagreement, personal identity, impartiality, population axiology, and more...this bold and sweeping work contains quite a number of provocative discussions of interest to theoretical ethicists of many stripes. Chris Heathwood, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The book is sparklingly clear and contains abundant insights and interesting arguments...a rich and rewarding book which will contribute greatly to a number of debates throughout moral philosophy. Guy Fletcher, Ratio In little more than one hundred and fifty pages of lively prose Reason and the Good covers half a dozen fundamental issues in normative theory, any one of which could easily fill a book on its own...a useful panoramic view of one intuitionist approach to normative theory, one that should be valuable to non-specialists, graduate students, and even advanced undergraduates. Sean McKeever, Review of Metaphysics