Arguing about Metaethics (Arguing About Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415380286 ISBN 13: 9780415380287

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

Arguing about Metaethics collects together some of the most exciting contemporary work in metaethics in one handy volume. In it, many of the most influential philosophers in the field discuss key questions in metaethics:

Do moral properties exist?

If they do, how do they fit into the world as science conceives it?

If they don’t exist, then how should we understand moral thought and language?

What is the relation between moral judgement and motivation?

As well as these questions, this volume discusses a wide range of issues including moral objectivity, truth and moral judgements, moral psychology, thick evaluative concepts and moral relativism.

The editors provide lucid introductions to each of the eleven themed sections in which they show how the debate lies and outline the arguments of the papers. Arguing about Metaethics is an ideal resource text for students at upper undergraduate or postgraduate level.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Fisher, Simon Kirchin

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415380286
• ISBN 13: 9780415380287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Fisher Andrew, Kirchin Simon