In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship

Abstract

Introduction 1. Pragmatism, science, and moral inquiry 2. Political theory and moral responsibility 3. Moral inquiry within the bounds of politics: a question of victimhood 4. Moral confidence: three cheers for naturalized ethics 5. Fighting (over) words: speech, power, and the moral imagination in American history 6. 'Of the standard of moral taste': literary criticism as moral inquiry 7. The moral force field of Haitian Vodou 8. Snakes alive: resituating the moral in the study of religion 9. Social science and the moral revival: dilemmas and difficulties 10. Religion, morality, and other unmentionables: the revival of moral discourse in the law.