"Pluralist scholars of meta-ethics, normative ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of agency will find many useful resources in David Boersema's Dimensions of Moral Agency. In this single volume, he's managed to bring together fascinating research on emotion and virtue, the nature of reasons, moral belief, political freedom and freedom of the will, happiness, policy, and environmental ethics. These papers cross a variety of supposedly insurmountable divides. For instance, some focus on major historical figures (Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, the Stoics); others focus on very contemporary issues, such as environmental degradation. Some originate from phenomenological perspectives, drawing on Habermas and Hegel; others employ empirically-informed philosophy or good old fashioned conceptual analysis. Everything is original, in the best sense of the term. Philosophers and others who are interested in what agency can be in the emerging global economy, with ironic combination of iterated levels of dependency and anonymity, will not be disappointed." Mark Alfano, University of Oregon"David Boersema has brought together an engaging, challenging, and, at times, controversial collection of essays on moral agency.

Though not a systematic analysis, this book very nicely highlights the major issues of agency - from free will, to emotions, to responsibility, to desire. It covers subjects as diverse as mental illness, Chinese philosophy, feminism, the environmental crisis, prostitution, animal rights, Stoicism, debt, and virtue ethics. In other words, this book will provide fruitful engagement to anyone interested in moral agency." Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, State University of New York, College at Cortland"Consisting of papers that cover a wide range of issues, Dimensions of Moral Agency nicely highlights the diversity and richness of modern moral philosophy. The wide range of topics included illustrates the richness of the terrain of modern moral philosophy, but also highlights interesting threads in the current literature - that is, it illustrates how ethicists are seeking to understand moral philosophy in its historical context while also recognizing that it needs to adapt to changes in our social context and our physical environment, and in our empirically informed understanding of what it means to be human." Elizabeth Foreman, Saint Louis University.