The normative web : an argument for moral realism / Terence Cuneo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuneo, Terence, 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moral realism.

Ethics.

Realism.

Epistemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Other Title:

Argument for moral realism

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Antirealist views about morality claim that moral facts or truths do not exist. Do these views imply that other types of normative facts, such as epistemic ones, do not exist? The Normative Web develops a positive answer to this question. Terence Cuneo argues that the similarities between moral and epistemic facts provide excellent reason to believe that, if moral facts do not exist, then epistemic facts do not exist. But epistemic facts, it is argued, do exist: to deny theirexistence would commit us to an extreme version of epistemological skepticism. Therefore, Cuneo concludes, moral facts e

Contents:

Moral realism of a paradigmatic sort

Defending the parallel

The parity premise

Epistemic nihilism

Epistemic expressivism : traditional views

Epistemic expressivism : nontraditional views

Epistemic reductionism

Three objections to the core argument.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-260) and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-161481-5

0-19-171174-8

0-19-152737-8

1-281-14978-0

9786611149789

1-4356-2176-X

OCLC:

319063812