Oxford Studies in Metaethics 12

by Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780191843174
• ISBN10: 0191843172
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2017-07-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here.

Author Biography

Russ Shafer-Landau, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where is is also Director of the Parr Center for Ethics. He is the author of Moral Realism: A Defence (OUP 2003), which received an honourable mention for the 2005 APA Book Prize, and Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (OUP 2004).

Table of Contents

1. Locating Morality: Moral Imperatives as Bodily Imperatives, Kate Manne
2. Difficult Cases and the Epistemic Justification of Moral Belief, Joshua Schechter
3. Moral Testimony: Going on the Offensive, Eric Wiland
4. Non-Naturalism and Supervenience, Stephanie Leary
5. The Grounding Argument against Non-Reductive Moral Realism, Ralf Bader
6. What is a Moral Law?, Gideon Rosen
7. Ought to Is: the Puzzle of Moral Science, John Basl and Christian Coons
8. Disagreement Lost and Found, Stephen Finlay
9. Normative Language in Context, Alex Silk
10. On Leaving Room for Doubt: Using Frege-Geach to Illuminate Expressivism's Problem with Objectivity, David Faraci
11. Expressivism and Varieties of Normativity, Daniel Wodak
12. The Predicament of Choice, Ralph Wedgwood