Arguing about Metaethics

Name: Arguing about Metaethics
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ISBN: 9780415380287

ISBN-10: 0415380286

ISBN-13: 9780415380287

Edition: 2007

Authors: Andrew Fisher, Simon Kirchin

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Arguing about Metaethicscollects together some of the most exciting contemporary work in metaethics in one handy volume. In it, many of the most influential philosophers in the field discuss key questions in metaethics: Do moral properties exist? If they do, how do they fit into the world as science conceives it? If they don't exist, then how should we understand moral thought and language? What is the relation between moral judgment and motivation? As well as these questions, this volume discusses a wide range of issues including moral objectivity, truth and moral judgments, moral psychology, thick evaluative concepts and moral relativism. The editors provide lucid introductions to each of…

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List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/23/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Richard Joyce is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1998, after which he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of "The Myth of Morality" (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and "The Evolution of Morality" (MIT Press, 2006).Simon Kirchn is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He received his PhD from the University of Sheffield and subsequently taught at the University of Bristol. He is the author of a number of papers in metaethics and the co-editor (with Andrew Fisher) of Arguing About Metaethics (2006). He is currently writing a book on thick concepts. He was…




Introduction



The open question argument



The open question argument : the subject-matter of ethics




The naturalistic fallacy




The open question as a linguistic test




Error theory and moral realism



The arguments from relativity and queerness




Moral realism and the sceptical arguments from disagreement and queerness




On the genuine queerness of moral properties and facts




Moral realism after Moore : naturalism



Moral explanations




Moral realism




Troubles for new wave moral semantics : the open question argument revived




Critical notice of Hurley




Moral realism after Moore : modern nonnaturalism



Values and secondary qualities




Pathetic ethics




Expressivism



Realism and variations




A problem for expressivism




Is there a Lockean argument against expressivism?




Expressivism and the Frege-Geach problem



The Frege-Geach problem




Moral modus ponens and moral realism




Attitudes and contents




Can there be a logic of attitudes?




Expressivism and minimalism about truth



Why expressivists about value should love minimalism about truth




Why expressivists about value should not love minimalism about truth




Expressivism and nonnatural moral realism



Noncognitivism and rule-following




Reply : rule-following and moral realism




Projection and truth in ethics




Thick concepts



'Thick' concepts revised




Thick concepts revisited : a reply to Burton




Reply to Garrard and McNaughton




Judgement and motivation



The externalist challenge




Dispositions and fetishes : externalist models of moral motivation




The Humean theory of motivation



The Humean theory of motivation




Humeans, anti-Humeans, and motivation




On Humeans, anti-Humeans, and motivation : a reply to Pettit