The Fundamentals of Reasons

Mark Schroeder, University of Southern California, and Nathan Howard, University of Toronto

Nathan Robert Howard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work ranges across issues in normative ethics, metaethics, bioethics, and related areas, and has been published in Ethics, Nous, The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and other venues. He is currently at work on questions about consent and refusal in health care, good moral motivation, and teleology in ethics and action.

Mark Schroeder is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He has published over one hundred philosophy articles on topics in metaethics, normative ethics, epistemology, action theory, philosophy of language, and related areas. His previous books about reasons include Slaves of the Passions (2007), Explanation and Expression in Ethics, volume 1: Explaining the Reasons We Share (2014), and Reasons First (2021). He is currently working on exploring the consequences of philosophical accounts of the nature of persons for the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and interpersonal conflict.