Includes bibliographical references and index.

Moral realism -- Facts and values -- Noncognitivism about rationality -- Aesthetic value, moral value, and the ambitions of naturalism -- Red, bitter, good -- Alienation, consequentialism, and the demands of morality -- Locke, stock, and peril -- How thinking about character and utilitarianism might lead to rethinking the character of utilitarianism -- Pluralism, dilemma, and the expression of moral conflict -- On the hypothetical and non-hypothetical in reasoning about thought and action -- Normative force and normative freedom -- Morality, ideology, and reflection, or, the duck sits yet.