Highlights include:

. Analyses of moral cognition and moral learning by leading cognitive scientists

. Accounts of the normative practices of animals by expert animal ethologists

. An overview of the evolution of cooperation by preeminent evolutionary psychologists

. Sophisticated treatments of moral skepticism, relativism, moral uncertainty, and know-how by renowned philosophers

. Scholarly accounts of the development of Western moral thinking by eminent intellectual historians

. Careful analyses of the role played by conceptions of moral knowledge in political liberation movements, religious institutions, criminal law, secondary education, and professional codes of ethics articulated by cutting-edge social and moral philosophers.