Table of Contents

Introduction

Tim Dare and Christine Swanton

Part I: Roles and Morality

1. Characters and Roles

Glen Pettigrove

2. Roles all the Way Down

Tim Dare

3. Expertise and Virtue in Role Ethics

Christine Swanton

4. The Role of Roles in Normative Economy of a Life

Gregory Cooper

Part II: Role Ethics and Confucianism

5. Roles and Virtues: Early Confucians on Social Order and the Different Aspects of Ethics

Aaron Stalnaker

6. That’s What Friends Are For: A Confucian Perspective on the Moral Significance of Friendship

Cheryl Cottine

Part III: Professional Roles

7. Crossing the Bridge

W. Bradley Wendel

8. Role Virtues, Doctor-Patience Relationships, and Virtuous Policy

Justin Oakley

Part IV: Roles and Reasons

9. Deliberative Restriction and Professional Roles

Garrett Cullity

10. Roles and Reasons

Sophie Grace Chappell

About the Author

Tim Dare is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of The Counsel of Rogues? A Defence of the Standard Conception of the Lawyer’s Role (2009). He has also written on the philosophy of law and applied and professional ethics.

Christine Swanton is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Virtue Ethics of Hume and Nietzsche (2015), Virtue Ethics: A Pluralist View (2005), and Freedom: A Coherence Theory (1992).