Research Catalog

Title

Moral disagreement / Richard Rowland.

Author

Cosker-Rowland, Rach

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Description

xv, 258 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"Widespread disagreement about moral issues is a prominent aspect of contemporary pluralistic societies. Surveys indicate that in the United States opinion is split close to 50/50 on the morality of abortion, the death penalty, same-sex relationships, and physician-assisted suicide. It is also a subject with a long philosophical history, going back to Plato and Aristotle and drives contemporary debates about moral relativism, scepticism and objectivity. Should we be concerned about the extent of moral disagreement? What causes it? What are the onsequence of moral disagreement? In this thorough and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of moral disagreement and its philosophical and political implications Richard Rowland examines and assesses the following topics and questions: Relativism and moral disagreement Moral realism Peer disagreement, moral knowledge and the problem of conciliationism Non-cognitivism and moral disagreement Moral uncertainty Moral disagreement and coercion New directions. Combining clear philosophical analysis with summaries of the latest research and including chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary, Moral Disagreement is ideal for students of ethics, metaethics and political philosophy as well as philosophical topics that are closely related such as relativism, scepticism and objectivity. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political philosophy, ethics and public policy and philosophy of law"--

Series Statement

New problems of philosophy

Uniform Title

New problems of philosophy.

Subject

• Ethical problems
• Ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index.

Contents

Part I: Metaethics The Descriptive Consequences of Moral Disagreement. Explaining Moral Disagreement -- Making Room for Disagreement -- Interpreting Moral Disagreements -- Part II: Epistemology and Normative Ethics Normative Personal Consequences of Moral Disagreement. The Epistemic Significance of Peer Disagreement -- Applied Epistemology of Moral Disagreement -- From What We Ought to Believe to What We Ought to Do -- Part III: Political Philosophy Normative Interpersonal Consequences of Moral Disagreement. Moral Compromise -- Public Reason, Legitimate State Action, and Justifiability to All -- Democracy and Deliberative Restraint -- Part IV: Metaethics and Disagreement's Normative Implications. Metaethics and the Normative Implications of Moral Disagreement.

Call Number

JFE 21-3547

ISBN

• 9781138589841
• 1138589845
• 9781138589858
• 1138589853

LCCN

• 2020027106
• 40030301506

OCLC

1178868387

Author

Cosker-Rowland, Rach, author.

Title

Moral disagreement / Richard Rowland.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New problems of philosophy

New problems of philosophy.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index.

Other Standard Identifier

40030301506

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3547