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.
Author(s): Michael Brady
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 311
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