ABSTRACT
Most of the papers gathered here were contributions to a series of joint meetings of the Department of Social Ad ministration and Social Work and the Department of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. The meetings were designed to encourage philosophers to look at trad itional problems raised in the comparatively unfamiliar setting of social work and social service and to encourage social workers to philosophise. Those who attended the meetings soon discovered the importance of encouragement! One's experience and training can impose harsh criteria of relevance, and stunt imagination. Even so, we gradually rediscovered and came to value philosophy in social work and now publish the papers so that students of philosophy and social work might encounter each other's perspective, and be stimulated by their interaction.
