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Title

Ethical naturalism : current debates / edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Nuccetelli, Susana.
• Seay, Gary.

Description

viii, 262 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early on, intuitively forceful objections by eliminativists and non-naturalists, ethical naturalism has only recently become a central player in the debates about the status of moral properties and facts which have occupied philosophers over the last century. It has now become a driving force in those debates, one with sufficient resources to challenge not only eliminativism, especially in its various non-cognitivist forms, but also the most sophisticated versions of non-naturalism. This volume brings together twelve new essays which make it clear that, in light of recent developments in analytic philosophy and the social sciences, there are novel grounds for reassessing the doctrines at stake in these debates"--

Subjects

• PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• Naturalism
• Ethics, Evolutionary
• Aufsatzsammlung

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Naturalism in moral philosophy Gilbert Harman; 2. Normativity and reasons: five arguments from Parfit against normative naturalism David Copp; 3. Naturalism: feel the width Roger Crisp; 4. On ethical naturalism and the philosophy of language Frank Jackson; 5. Metaethical pluralism: how both moral naturalism and moral skepticism may be permissible positions Richard Joyce; 6. Moral naturalism and categorical reasons Terence Cuneo; 7. Does analytical moral naturalism rest on a mistake? Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay; 8. Supervenience and the nature of normativity Michael Ridge; 9. Can normativity be naturalized? Robert Audi; 10. Ethical non-naturalism and experimental philosophy Robert Shaver; 11. Externalism, motivation, and moral knowledge Sergio Tenenbaum; 12. Naturalism, absolutism, relativism Michael Smith.

Call Number

JFE 12-2905

ISBN

• 9780521192422 (hardback)
• 0521192420 (hardback)

LCCN

2011037727

OCLC

YBP 2011037727

Title

Ethical naturalism : current debates / edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay.

Imprint

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Nuccetelli, Susana.

Seay, Gary.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-2905