Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume Four

by Shafer-Landau, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780199566310
• ISBN10: 0199566313
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Oxford Studies in Metaethicsis 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 intersection of ethical theory and 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 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, and Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (OUP 2004).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vi
Introduction	p. 1
What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do	p. 5
The Natural and the Normative	p. 29
Doubts about the Supervenience of the Evaluative	p. 53
A Theory of Hedged Moral Principles	p. 91
Ethical Neo-Expressivism	p. 133
Realist-Expressivism and Conventional Implicature	p. 167
Guilt-Free Morality	p. 203
Reasons as Evidence	p. 215
How to be a Cognitivist about Practical Reason	p. 243
Archimedeanism and Why Metaethics Matters	p. 283
Constitutivism and the Inescapability of Agency	p. 303
Index	p. 335
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