Does anything really matter? : essays on Parfit on objectivity / Peter Singer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singer, Peter, 1946- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parfit, Derek. On what matters.

Parfit, Derek.

Ethics.

Objectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essays on Parfit on objectivity

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In 'On What Matters', Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He further argues that if he is wrong, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. In 'Does Anything Really Matter?', leading philosophers present a fascinating set of responses to Parfit.

Contents:

Preface / by Peter Singer

Has Parfit's life been wasted? : some reflections on Part Six of 'On What Matters' / Larry S. Temkin

Two sides of the meta-ethical mountain? / Peter Railton

Parfit on normative concepts and disagreement / Allan Gibbard

All souls' night / Simon Blackburn

Parfit's mistaken meta-ethics / Michael Smith

Nothing "really" matters, but that's not what matters / Sharon Street

Knowing what matters / Richard Yetter Chappell

Nietzsche and the hope of normative convergence / Andrew Huddleston

In defence of reductionism in ethics / Frank Jackson

What matters about meta-ethics? / Mark Schroeder

A defense of moral intuitionism / Bruce Russell

Morality, blame, and internal reasons / Stephen Darwall

Parfit on objectivity and "the profoundest problem in ethics" / Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 9, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191823916

0-19-182391-0

0-19-108438-7