Companions in guilt : arguments for ethical objectivity / Hallvard Lillehammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lillehammer, Hallvard, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

ix, 220 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

Some Arguments for the objectivity of ethical claims have a 'companions in guilt' form. These arguments defend the objectivity of ethical claims by comparing them with other claims the objectivity of which is not in doubt, but which share the features of ethical claims that lead some towards scepticism about ethical objectivity. In this book, the most influential manifestations of this strategy are subjected to critical analysis for the first time. Topics discussed include: value and mental content, the normativity of instrumental reason, the fact/value distinction, values and secondary qualities, objectivity in ethics and science, and the normativity of ethics, logic, and mathematics.

This book will be a useful resource for anyone interested in questions of objectivity in ethics and elsewhere. As well as offering an original perspective on some of the most hotly debated questions in recent philosophy, this book also serves as a systematic introduction to central issues in meta-ethics.

Contents:

1 Companionship in Guilt 1

2 Value, Normativity and the Mind 19

3 The Normativity of Practical Reason 41

4 Fact, Value and Truth 65

5 Values and Secondary Qualities 89

6 Ethics, Science and the Absolute Conception 111

7 Ethical Objectivity and Rule Following 133

8 Objectivity, Realism and Inescapability 154.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230527546

023052754X

OCLC:

85689609