New Waves in Metaethics

✍ Scribed by Michael Brady (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: New Waves in Philosophy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Ethical Non-Naturalism and Normative Properties....Pages 7-35
Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price....Pages 36-61
In Defense of Moral Error Theory....Pages 62-84
The Myth of Moral Fictionalism....Pages 85-102
Expressivism, Inferentialism and the Theory of Meaning....Pages 103-125
How Not to Avoid Wishful Thinking....Pages 126-140
Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition....Pages 141-165
Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value....Pages 166-184
A Wrong Turn to Reasons?....Pages 185-207
Shmagency Revisited....Pages 208-233
The Authority of Social Norms....Pages 234-248
Moral Epistemology....Pages 249-263
Aesthetics and Particularism....Pages 264-285
Back Matter....Pages 286-300

✦ Subjects

Ethics; Moral Philosophy; Analytic Philosophy; Epistemology; Aesthetics