New Waves in Metaethics [electronic resource] /
Brady, Michael S.author.
Brady, Michael,1965-
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1 Ethical Non-Naturalism and Normative Properties; 2 Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price; 3 In Defense of Moral Error Theory; 4 The Myth of Moral Fictionalism; 5 Expressivism, Inferentialism and the Theory of Meaning; 6 How Not to Avoid Wishful Thinking; 7 Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition; 8 Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value; 9 A Wrong Turn to Reasons?; 10 Shmagency Revisited; 11 The Authority of Social Norms; 12 Moral Epistemology
13 Aesthetics and ParticularismBibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ethics.
Analysis (Philosophy).
Epistemology.
Aesthetics.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Analytic Philosophy.
Epistemology.
Aesthetics.