The many moral rationalisms / edited by Karen Jones, Francois Schroeter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Karen, editor.

Schroeter, Francois, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rationalism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Rationalism.

Ethics--Philosophy.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 309 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This volume examines the core ideas of moral rationalism: the psychological thesis that reason is the source of moral judgment, the metaphysical thesis that it is the basis of moral requirements, the epistemological thesis that moral requirements are knowable a priori, and the normative thesis that moral requirements entail reasons for action.

Contents:

Introduction / François Schroeter and others

Humanity as an end in itself / Julia Markovits

Three kinds of moral rationalism / Michael Smith

Constitutivism about reasons : autonomy and understanding / Karl Schafer

Constructivism and the normativity of practical reason / Nicholas Southwood

Moral requirements and permissions, and the requirements and permissions of reason / Sarah Buss

Reasons and justifiability

Rationalist metaphysics, semantics, and metasemantics / Mark van Roojen

Naturalistic moral realism, rationalism, and non-fundamental epistemology / Tristram McPherson

The motivating power of the a priori obvious / Ram Neta

Stupid goodness / Garrett Cullity

What does it take to act for moral reasons? / Alison Hills

Towards a trajectory-dependent model of (human) rational agency / Karen Jones

The limits of emotion in moral judgment / Joshua May.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-251747-3

0-19-185829-3

0-19-251746-5