New Waves in Metaethics (New Waves in Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Michael Brady

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Series: New Waves in Philosophy
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Metaethical questions have occupied some of the greatest philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hume and Nietzsche, amongst many others, have all written on issues about the nature of moral thinking and moral practice. In the last 40 years, interest in metaethics has increased greatly, driven by developments in other areas of philosophy - principally, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophical psychology. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best younger philosophers working in this field. Topics covered include: * the nature of practical reasons * naturalist and non-naturalist approaches to metaethics * expressivist accounts of moral language, * aesthetic, epistemic and social normativity

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
1 Ethical Non-Naturalism and Normative Properties......Page 18
2 Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price......Page 47
3 In Defense of Moral Error Theory......Page 73
4 The Myth of Moral Fictionalism......Page 96
5 Expressivism, Inferentialism and the Theory of Meaning......Page 114
6 How Not to Avoid Wishful Thinking......Page 137
7 Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition......Page 152
8 Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value......Page 177
9 A Wrong Turn to Reasons?......Page 196
10 Shmagency Revisited......Page 219
11 The Authority of Social Norms......Page 245
12 Moral Epistemology......Page 260
13 Aesthetics and Particularism......Page 275
Bibliography......Page 297
Index......Page 310