Oxford Studies in Metaethics 13

by Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780191862625
• ISBN10: 0191862622
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2018-08-18
• 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. Why Believe in Normative Supervenience?, Debbie Roberts
2. Non-Naturalism Gone Quasi: Explaining the Necessary Connections between the Natural and the Normative, Teemu Toppinen
3. Non-Descriptive Relativism: Adding Options to the Expressivist's Marketplace, Matthew S. Bedke
4. How to Learn about Aesthetics and Morality through Acquaintance and Deference, Errol Lord
5. Belief Pills and the Possibility of Moral Epistemology, Neil Sinclair
6. The Puzzle of Pure Moral Motivation, Adam Lerner
7. It Ain't Necessarily So, Nomy Arpaly
8. Moral Uncertainty and Value Comparison, Amelia Hicks
9. What is (In)Coherence?, Alex Worsnip
10. The Authority of Formality, Jack Woods
11. Authoritatively Normative Concepts, Tristram McPherson
12. Skepticism about Ought Simpliciter, Derek Baker
13. The Rationality of Ends, Sigrun Svavarsdottir