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We are pleased to announce the publication of the third Virtual Issue of the Aristotelian Society: 'Methods in Ethics', edited by Ben Colburn (Glasgow).
The Aristotelian Society’s Virtual Issue is a free, online publication, made publically available on the Aristotelian Society website. Each volume is theme-based, collecting together papers from the archives of the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society and the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume that address the chosen theme.
This year's Virtual Issue includes a selection of papers from across the Society’s fourteen decades, each accompanied by a specially commissioned present-day response. The aim of the volume is to aid reflection on how to go about doing moral and political philosophy, by bringing together papers that bear on their epistemology and methodology. In some cases this involves pieces whose declared focus is on one of those areas, as is the case with Margaret MacDonald’s 1941 essay ‘The Language of Political Theory’ and Mary Midgley’s 1974 article ‘The Neutrality of the Moral Philosopher’. In other cases the editor, Ben Colburn, selected papers whose primary focus is elsewhere, but which include some interesting epistemological or methodological reflections or implications along the way. The contributions from our present-day commentators vary similarly in how far their explicit attention is methodological. Nevertheless, there is throughout a concern (either explicit or implicit) on how to ‘be an honest reasoner’, to borrow a phrase from the late Dudley Knowles.
The Contributors
Guest Editor

Ben Colburn
The Classic Contributors

Henry Sidgwick

J.H. Muirhead

G.F. Stout

S. Alexander

E.E. Constance Jones

G.C. Field

Margaret MacDonald

C.D. Broad

Michael Tanner

Mary Midgley

Onora O'Neill

Robert Stern

Philip Stratton-Lake
The Commentators

Frank Jackson

Brad Hooker

Justin Clarke-Doane

Lorna Finlayson

Robert Cowan

Anna Bergqvist

Roger Crisp

Connie Rosati

Sophie Grace Chappell
