Ethics in the wake of Wittgenstein / edited by Benjamin De Mesel and Oskari Kuusela.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Mesel, Benjamin, editor.

Kuusela, Oskari, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in ethics and moral theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--Influence.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Ethics.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

vi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

This book brings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein's later philosophical work. The essays in this volume make the argument that Wittgenstein's relevance for moral philosphy depends not only on his views about ethics, but also on the methods he introduces, on his views on the nature of philosophy and philosophical problems and on the insights into language developed in his philosophy. They also focus on the "Wittgensteinian tradition" in moral philosophy and its relation to more mainstream analytic moral philosophy, addressing how several prominent philosophers us these ideas and methods in their work. Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein seeks to answer the following question: can we apply Wittgenstein's way of dealing with problems in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of mathematics to moral philosophy as well? It will be of interest to Wittgenstein scholars and those working on current debates in moral philosophy, meta-ethics and normative ethics. -- [page i].

Contents:

Logical-linguistic method in moral philosophy : resolving problems from Iris Murdoch and Bernard Williams with Wittgenstein / Oskari Kuusela

Moral concepts, "natural facts" and naturalism : outline of a Wittgensteinian moral philosophy / Edward Harcourt

Boundless nature : virtue ethics, Wittgenstein and unrestricted naturalism / Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen

Between tradition and criticism : the "uncodifiability" of the normative / Sabina Lovibond

Rule-following, moral realism and non-cognitivism revisited / Alexander Miller

Are moral judgements semantically uniform? : a Wittgensteinian approach to the cognitivism-non-cognitivism debate / Benjamin De Mesel

Truth in ethics : Williams and Wiggins / Cora Diamond

Reasons to be good? / Lars Hertzberg

Hitting moral bedrock / Jeremy Johnson

Our fellow creatures / Craig Taylor

Comments on a contested comparison : race and animals / Alice Crary

The ethical and the political in the dilemma of Winch's Vere / Lynette Reid.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138744295

1138744298

OCLC:

1089259683

Publisher Number:

40029229631