Knowing right from wrong / Kieran Setiya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Setiya, Kieran, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right and wrong.

Conscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 173 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can we have objective knowledge of right and wrong, of how we should live and what there is reason to do? Can it be anything but luck when our beliefs are true? Kieran Setiya confronts these questions in their most compelling and articulate forms and argues that if there is objective ethical knowledge, human nature is its source.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Plan of this Book

2. Ethical Supervenience

1. Disagreement

1. Equal Weight

2. Intuitions, Coherence, Reflective Equilibrium

3. Bias towards the Truth

2. Reliability

1. Ethical Judgement

2. Coincidence

3. Begging the Question

3. Knowledge

1. No Accident

2. Reflection, Induction, Perception

3. The Problem of Ethical Knowledge

4. Human Nature

1. Knowledge without Convergence

2. Justification

3. Faith

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 14, 2012).

ISBN:

0-19-105742-8

0-19-870961-7

1-283-85389-2

0-19-163159-0

OCLC:

922971610