Stoner and Swartwood's Doing Practical Ethics is the first book to offer a framework for acquiring the component skills required to philosophise about applied ethics. The book accomplishes this by providing clear explanations and models of basic argument and critical thinking skills, Demonstration Exercises with solutions that provide clear and immediate feedback, and further Practice Exercises for honing skills.

This skill-focused textbook can be used in any intro to ethics or intro to contemporary moral problems course. It is equally useful for any applied ethics course, such as Bioethics, Business Ethics, and Environmental Ethics. It teaches students, through practice, how to analyse, evaluate, and construct moral arguments. Most instructors would also assign a reader or a set of custom readings.

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Introduction: How and why to use Doing Practical Ethics

Section I: Basic Skills and Techniques

1: Recognizing Moral Arguments

2: Generating Illustrative Examples

3: Generating Counterexamples

4: Representing Arguments in Standard Form

Section II: Argument from Principle

5: Analyzing Arguments from Principle

6: Evaluating Arguments from Principle

7: Developing an Argument from Principle

Section III: Argument from Analogy

8: Analyzing Arguments from Analogy

9: Evaluating Arguments from Analogy

10: Developing an Argument from Analogy

Section IV: Moral Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE)

11: Analyzing IBE

12: Evaluating IBE

13: Developing an IBE

Glossary

Appendix: Overview of Argument Forms

Ian M. Stoner - Instructor of Philosophy at Saint Paul College. 

Jason D. Swartwood - Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint Paul College.