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Morality and our complicated form of life : feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics

Title
Morality and our complicated form of life : feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics / Peg O'Connor.
Author
O'Connor, Peg, 1965-
Publication
University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2008.

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Description
xiv, 178 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"A reassessment of metaethics that attempts to undermine the nature/normativity or world/language divide, and offer an alternative account of the world-language relationship. Advocates the need to replace the metaphor of foundations with a metaphor about stability. Incorporates Wittgenstein and contemporary feminist ethicists"--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  • Feminist ethics
  • Ethics
  • ethics (philosophy)
  • Metaethik
  • Normativität
  • Feminismus
  • Analytische Ethik
  • Sprachspiel
  • Feministische Philosophie
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Feminist Wittgensteinian metaethics? : revising the big book -- Does the fabric of the world include moral properties? : realist/antirealist debates -- Neither a realist nor an antirealist be -- Felted contextualism : heterogeneous stability -- Normativity and grammar -- Philosophical rags and mice : changing the subject in moral epistemology -- Stability and objectivity : the felted world.
ISBN
  • 9780271033792
  • 0271033797
LCCN
2008000932
OCLC
  • ocn191023977
  • 191023977
  • SCSB-1488594
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library