Metaethics: An Introduction

by Fisher; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781844652587
• ISBN10: 1844652580
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2014-09-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Do moral facts exist? What would they be like if they did? What does it mean to say that a moral claim is true? What is the link between moral judgement and motivation? Can we know whether something is right and wrong? Is morality a fiction?

Author Biography

Andrew Fisher is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and is co-editor of Arguing about Metaethics.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The open question argument	p. 11
Emotivism	p. 25
Error theory	p. 39
Moral realism and naturalism	p. 55
Moral realism and non-naturalism	p. 73
Quasi-realism	p. 91
Moral relativism	p. 111
Moral psychology	p. 127
Moral epistemology	p. 141
Fictionalism and non-descriptive cognitivism	p. 157
Questions	p. 173
Glossary	p. 177
References	p. 183
Index	p. 191
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