Handbook of Supererogation

David Heyd received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1976. The dissertation's topic was supererogation, which is the subject of this handbook. He then became a tenured faculty member at the department of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1976 till his formal retirement in 2014 as a full professor and Chaim Perelman Chair in Philosophy. He is still teaching part-time at the university. He has been  a visiting fellow and a visiting scholar in Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, Columbia, and at the NIH (each time for a year). In 2017, he won the EMET Prize in philosophy, which is one of the two most prestigious academic awards in Israel. His main fields of expertise are moral philosophy, political philosophy, and bioethics.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. On Saints and Heroes.- Chapter 3. Supererogation and Duty.- Chapter 4. Supererogation, Conditional Obligation, and the All or Nothing Problem.- Chapter 5. Latitude, Supererogation, and Imperfect Duties.- Chapter 6. The Staircase Scene: Supererogation and Moral Attunement.- Chapter 7. Must Virtue be Heroic? Virtue Ethics and the Possibility of Supererogation.- Chapter 8. The Expected, the Contra-Expected, the Supererogatory, and the Suberogatory.- Chapter 9. Supererogation and Its Conceptual Neighborhood through a DWE Lens.- Chapter 10. Supererogation and the Limits of Reasons.- Chapter 11. The Evaluative Condition for Supererogation.- Chapter 12. Supererogation and Forgiveness.- Chapter 13. Promise-Making and Supererogation.- Chapter 14. What’s the use of non-moral supererogation?.- Chapter 15. Going Above and Beyond: Non-Moral Analogues of Moral Supererogation.- Chapter 16. Feminist Perspectives on Supererogation.- Chapter 17. Supererogation in Christianity.- Chapter 18. Supererogation and Protestantism.- Chapter 19. Does Judaism Recognise the Supererogatory?.- Chapter 20. Islamic Narratives of Duty, Supererogation, and Ithar.- Chapter 21. Supererogation in Buddhism.