Editor's Introduction

In April 2010, the American Philosophies Forum held a symposium called "The Future of Ethics" at Emory University. Many of the twenty-four presentations, revised in light of significant discussion at the-symposium, now are published in this and the prior issue of this journal.

The notion of "the future of ethics" is intentionally multivocal. It includes, but is not limited to, attention to the nature of ethics and ethical life; the relation of ethics to aesthetics, politics, logic, sciences, and other fields; the appropriate methods or attunements for thinking about ethics; the roles and relations of reasoning, intuitions, feelings and desires, hopes, and habits in ethics and ethical life; the personal and social nature of the self, self-knowledge, and self-development; the situatedness and boundaries of ethics; and contemporary ethical problems and policy making.

Accordingly, this symposium has a broad range, and its individual articles intersect with others in multiple and fruitful ways. Here, through articles by Jeff Edmonds, Cynthia Gayman, Vincent Colapietro, Paul C. Taylor, Robert E. Innis, Charles E. Scott, and John Lysaker, the focus is on ethics and affect, perception, habit, limit, and self-realization. In the prior issue of this journal, through the work of Richard Shusterman, Mary Magada-Ward, Jessica Wahman, William S. Lewis, Michael H. G. Hoffmann, Eric Thomas Weber, and Jacquelyn A. K. Kegley, the focus is on ethics and rationality, experimentalism, logic, art, intuitions, embodiment, agency, and self-knowledge.