Oxford Studies in Metaethics: Volume 6

by Russ Shafer-Landau (Editor)

Overview

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is 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 intersections of ethical theory with 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199606375
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/05/2011
Series:	Oxford Studies in Metaethics
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Russ Shafer-Landau is professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Moral Realism: A Defence, which received an honourable mention for the 2005 APA Book Prize, and Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Mind-Independence Without the Mystery: Why Quasi-Realists Can't Have It Both Ways, Sharon Street2. How Much Realism? Evolved Thinkers and Normative Concepts, Allan Gibbard3. Parfit's Case against Subjectivism, David Sobel4. Desire-Based Theories of Reasons, Pleasure and Welfare, Chris Heathwood5. Moral Knowledge and Experience, Sarah McGrath6. Passing the Deontic Buck, Matt Bedke7. The Accidental Error Theorist, Richard Joyce8. Getting Real about Moral Fictionalism, Jonas Olson9. A New and Improved Supervenience Argument for Ethical Descriptivism, Campbell Brown10. Activity and Passivity in Reflective Agency, Paul Katsafanas11. Why be An Internalist about Reasons?, Julia Markovits12. Instrumental Rationality, Ralph WedgwoodIndex