Moral reality / Paul Bloomfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloomfield, Paul, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Health--Philosophy.

Moral realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout this book, the author offers a defense of moral realism by developing an ontology for morality which models being morally good on being physically healthy. He explains the metaphysics of moral properties and our access to them.

Contents:

Introduction: Protrepticus

A Modest Transcendental Argument for Moral Realism

Four Riddles

ONE: Moral Metaphysics: Reality Unobserved

The Thesis

A Primer on Being Healthy

Healthiness, Conventions, and Relativism

Healthiness and Goodness

Supervenience and Reduction

Blackburn's Challenge to Moral Realism via Supervenience

TWO: Moral Epistemology: The Skill of Virtue

Outline for the Logos of Skillful Practice

Medical, Navigational, and Moral Theories

Stubborn Disagreement in Face of the Facts

Aristotle's Rejection of Virtues as Skills

THREE: Moral Language: The 'Gooda' Rules

Following the Linguistic Turn

Semantics

Syntax

FOUR: Moral Practicality: Externalism sans Magnetism

The Absurdity of Magnetic Tofu

Intuitions behind Internalism

Hume and Williams Meet Thrasymachus

Kant, Nagel, and Korsgaard Meet Anscombe

A Little Bit of Jimmy Carter in All of Us?

Appendix: Entropy, Healthiness, and Goodness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028589-3

0-19-517239-6

1-280-53102-9

9786610531028

0-19-803137-8

1-4294-0188-5

OCLC:

71801818