Metaethics explored / Paul Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Paul.

Series:

Philosophy insights.

Philosophy insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tirril [England] ; Penrith, Calif. : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book begins with an overview of metaethics and a rejection of the metaethics/normative ethics distinction. Chapter 1 also considers the strengths and limitations of the popular idea that morality is a set of rules for how we treat one another, pointin

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents ""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1. Introducing the Issues""; ""1.1 Some Everyday Moral Utterances""; ""1.2 What are they about?""; ""1.3 The Attractions of a Popular Picture""; ""1.4 Rules: A Patch on Morality�s Surface? ""; ""1.5 From Angry Young Men and Women to �?""; ""1.6 Metaethics and Normative Ethics Revisited""; ""1.7 Summary and Reflection""; ""Chapter 2. Cognitivism and Noncognitivism""; ""2.1 The Basic Distinction""; ""2.2 Moral Realism and Moral Irrealism""

""2.3 Error and Success Theories""""2.4 Moral Knowledge Again""; ""2.5 The Truth Conditions of Moral Statements""; ""2.6 Critical Reflections on the Proposed Truth Conditions of Moral Statements""; ""2.7 Divine Command Theory of Morality ""; ""2.8 Kantianism""; ""Chapter 3. Objectivist Realism under Siege""; ""3.1 A Philosophical Health Warning""; ""3.2 David Hume""; ""3.3 Hume�s Arguments Considered ""; ""3.4 Mackie�s Argument from Queerness ""; ""3.5 So Where are We?""; ""3.6 Emotivism""; ""Chapter 4. Out on the Street""; ""4.1 The Death of God""; ""4.2 The Death of Deference""

""4.3 Moral Disagreement""""4.4 Multiculturalism""; ""4.5 Rejection of Specific Moral Beliefs""; ""4.6 Seedy Underbelly of Conventional Morality""; ""4.7 Decline in Communal and Symbolic Life""; ""4.7 Reluctance to be Judgemental""; ""4.8 Postmodern Irony""; ""Chapter 5�A Naturalist Objectivist Realism? ""; ""5.1 The Basic Features""; ""5.2 Moore�s Open Question Argument""; ""5.3 Empirical Reasoning and Moral Facts ""; ""5.4 Morality and Objectivist Naturalism""; ""5.5 Ethics and Natural Disciplines""; ""Bibliography""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-04042-1

9786612040429

1-84760-049-2

OCLC:

923144877