Arguing about Metaethics

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Andrew Fisher, Simon Kirchin
Routledge, 2006 - Ethics - 621 pages

Arguing about Metaethics collects together some of the most exciting contemporary work in metaethics in one handy volume. In it, many of the most influential philosophers in the field discuss key questions in metaethics:

Do moral properties exist?

If they do, how do they fit into the world as science conceives it?

If they don't exist, then how should we understand moral thought and language?

What is the relation between moral judgement and motivation?

As well as these questions, this volume discusses a wide range of issues including moral objectivity, truth and moral judgements, moral psychology, thick evaluative concepts and moral relativism.

The editors provide lucid introductions to each of the eleven themed sections in which they show how the debate lies and outline the arguments of the papers. Arguing about Metaethics is an ideal resource text for students at upper undergraduate or postgraduate level.

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Contents

PART
9
The open question argument
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the subjectmatter of ethics
31
Copyright

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Bibliographic information

TitleArguing about Metaethics
Volume 3 of Arguing about Philosophy Series
EditorsAndrew Fisher, Simon Kirchin
PublisherRoutledge, 2006
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized8 Jun 2010
ISBN0415380286, 9780415380287
Length621 pages
  
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