Wayne Sumner is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Moral Foundations of Rights (OUP 1987) and Abortion and Moral Theory, and is co-editor with Joseph Boyle of Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics.
`Very helpful footnotes and an extensive bibliography.
Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in
philosophy will find this volume of special interest.'
Choice
`Undismayed by the damage that economists and politicians in
different ways have done to the term 'welfare', Sumner offers a
carefully developed systematic argument for restoring the term to a
better use ... This argument moves on from stage to stage to few
visible slips. At every stage it is illuminating. At every stage it
keeps up enough suspense to impel readers to go on to see how the
next stage will work out. This will be true even for readers
thoroughly familiar with the topics and the texts that Sumner takes
up. Sumner has something new and penetrating to say about all of
them. Thus overall it is a very accomplished book.'
David Braybrooke, Philosophy in Review
`The book is extremely well-written and argued, and the discussion
of competing views (e.g., hedonism, desire theory, perfectionism)
is very insightful. Most importantly, Sumner's theory of welfare
breaks important new ground, and is sure to become one of the
leading theories. Ignore this book at your peril.'
Peter Vallentyne, Economics and Philosophy
`a clear, careful, and well-crafted investigation into major
theories of welfare'
The Philosophical Review, Bruce Bower, Tulane University, Vol 107,
no 2, April 1998
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