Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 14

by Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780191876950
• ISBN10: 019187695X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-07-18
• 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 Wisconsin-Madison

Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Moral Realism: A Defence (OUP 2003), which received an honourable mention for the 2005 APA Book Prize, Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (OUP 2004), and The Fundamentals of Ethics (OUP 2009).

Table of Contents

1. How Principles Ground, David Enoch
2. The Self-Undermining Arguments from Disagreement, Eric Sampson
3. Contextualism, Moral Disagreement, and Proposition Clouds, Jussi Suikkanen
4. Taking Prudence Seriously, Guy Fletcher
5. Internalism and Prudential Value, Jennifer Hawkins
6. Desiring under the Proper Guise, Michael Milona and Mark Schroeder
7. Infinitism about Cross-Domain Conflict, David Killoren
8. We Can Have Our Buck and Pass It, Too, Zoe Johnson King
9. Reason without Reasons For, Michael G. Titelbaum
10. The Fundamentality of Fit, Christopher Howard