Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 18

by Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780198884699
• ISBN10: 0198884699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-11-03
• 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

List of Contributors
Introduction
1. The Objectivist Attempt to Appropriate Subjective Value, David Sobel and Steven Wall
2. Value Realism and Idiosyncrasy, Claire Kirwin
3. Inferentialism as an Alternative to Expressivism, Matthew Chrisman
4. Unfitting Absent Emotion, Jamie Fritz
5. How Reasons Determine Moral Requirements, Thomas Schmidt
6. The Normativity of Aesthetics, Alison Hills
7. The Epistemic vs. The Practical, Antti Kauppinen
8. Epistemic Atonement, Elise Woodard
9. Moorean Arguments against the Error Theory: A Defense, Eric Sampson
10. The Problem of Morally Repugnant Beliefs, Declan Smithies