The author of this book is an ethical theorist working in philosophy today. She is known for her brand of analysis, largely in defense of a nonconsequentialist perspective—the view that some actions are right or wrong by virtue of something other than their consequences. This book questions the moral importance of some nonconsequentialist distinctions and then introduces and argues for the moral importance of other distinctions. The first section provides a general introduction to nonconsequentialist ethical theory followed by more detailed discussion of distinctions relevant to instrumental rationality and to the famous “Trolley Problem”; the second section deals with the notions of moral status and rights; the third section takes up the notions of responsibility and complicity, and discusses new issues in nonconsequentialist theory including the “problem of distance.” Finally, adding to the first section's discussions of the views of Warren Quinn and Peter Unger, the fourth section analyzes the views of others in the nonconsequentialist and consequentialist camps such as Peter Singer, Daniel Kahneman, Bernard Gert, and Thomas Scanlon.