Synopses & Reviews
Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.
About the Author
MICHAEL BRADY is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. His main research interests are in metaethics, philosophy of emotion, and epistemology. He is the Editor, with Duncan Pritchard, of Moral and Epistemic Virtues (2003) and has published articles in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, and American Philosophical Quarterly.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Editors' Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; M.Brady
Non-Naturalist Ethical Realism; W.Fitzpatrick
Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price; J.Gert
In Defence of Moral Error Theory; J.Olson
The Myth of Moral Fictionalism; T.Cuneo & S.Christy
Metaethics and the Philosophy of Language; M.Chrisman
How not to Avoid Wishful Thinking; M.Schroeder
Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition; J.Markovits
Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value; U.Heuer
A Wrong Turn to Reasons?; P.Väyrynen
Shmagency Revisited; D.Enoch
The Authority of Social Norms; N.Southwood
Moral Epistemology; A.Hills
Aesthetics, Objectivity and Particularism; S.Mckeever & M.Ridge
Index