An October, 2018 revision to my classic primer for ethics bowlers — now updated with video lectures on each of the chapters — is available in PDF on our Resources page and and via direct link here. Used by ethics bowl teams from coast to coast, it’s accessible, concise (only 60 pages), and contains all the philosophical ethics essentials: differences between morality and psychology/legality, how to build and analyze arguments by analogy, the four dominant ethics theories, the (legit, essential) role of our moral intuitions, and much more.
For class and other non-ethics bowl purposes, find the revised and expanded paperback edition at Amazon for less than $10 here. It’s similar to this 3rd ethics bowler edition, with several sections rewritten for clarity and impact, formatted for fewer words per page, lecture notes on each chapter at the end, and with a beautiful cover by ethics bowl supporter and artist, Ashley Addair.
But for ethics bowl-related purposes, the PDF version hosted here at EthicsBowl.org is completely free – my gift to the ethics bowl community. Print it, email it, host it on your team’s website – whatever you like.
Visit EthicsinaNutshell.org for the vids, sample reflection questions, sample syllabi and other resources.
Hoping you and your team find Nutshell useful, and special thanks to all the volunteers who helped improve editions 1 and 2,
Matt