Hugh LaFollette


Hugh LaFollette is an American philosopher who holds the Marie E. and Leslie Cole Emeritus Chair in Ethics at the University of South Florida.
He primarily works on moral philosophy.
He is author of four books and numerous philosophical essays; he also edited six volumes; several have seen multiple editions. He is Editor-in-Chief of the —currently in its 2nd print edition. The IEE is updated annually online.
He wrestles with an array of moral topics. More theoretical essays have addressed: egoism, relativism, moral status, justice, and liberty; his writings on practical ethics grapple with gun control, conscience, children, families and friends, animals, punishment, hunger, and the environment. He addresses practical topics theoretically. He contends practical and theoretical issues are interwoven: each informs, and is informed by, the other.
He strives to communicate vital ideas to a wider public—for eight years, as host of on WETS-FM; most recently, in an essay in ''The Tennessean.''

Books

In Defense of Gun Control, Oxford University Press 2018The Practice of Ethics, Blackwell 2007Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation, with N. Shanks, Routledge 1997Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality, Blackwell 1996.Ethics in Practice: An Anthology,.The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory,.The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics,.. The International Encyclopedia of Ethics