Morality and our complicated form of life
Subtitle: feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics
By: Peg O'Connor.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press; Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780271033792
Subjects: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, -- 1889-1951; Feminist ethics; Ethics
Description: "A reassessment of metaethics that attempts to undermine the nature/normativity or world/language divide, and offer an alternative account of the world-language relationship. Advocates the need to replace the metaphor of foundations with a metaphor about stability. Incorporates Wittgenstein and contemporary feminist ethicists"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics? : revising the big book; title: Does the fabric of the world include moral properties? : realist/antirealist debates; title: Neither a realist nor an antirealist be; title: Felted contextualism : heterogeneous stability; title: Normativity and grammar; title: Philosophical rags and mice : changing the subject in moral epistemology; title: Stability and objectivity : the felted world.