It is therefore fitting that a Festschrift honoring Bowie’s work be published.
Kantian Business Ethics: Critical Perspectives features essays by an array of prominent and emerging scholars in the field of business ethics that challenge and extend Bowie’s distinctive application of Kant. R. Edward Freeman maintains in his contribution to the book that Bowie’s Kantian thought and pragmatism share more in common than observers might at first think. Patricia Werhane adds some characteristic subtlety to the book with her chapter exploring the implications of the Kantian moral point of view on the profit seeking. Others, such as Richard Nielsen,test Bowie’s application of Kant’s moral theory with an examination of concrete problems, most notably the risk taking and fraud witnessed during the most recent financial crisis. Jeffery Smith extends the Kantian notion of beneficence to explain the normative dimensions of corporate social responsibility. These and other insights are punctuated with Bowie’s thoughtful response in the closing chapter.