McPherson / Plunkett The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-81791-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 716 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics. Forty-three chapters, all written exclusively for this volume, provide expert introductions to:

- the central research programs that frame metaethical discussions

- the central explanatory challenges, resources, and strategies that inform contemporary work in those research programs

- debates over the status of metaethics, and the appropriate methods to use in metaethical inquiry

This is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in metaethics, from those coming to it for the first time to those actively pursuing research in the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McPherson, Tristram

Plunkett, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: The nature and explanatory ambitions of metaethics

(Tristram McPherson, and David Plunkett)

I. Central organizing options in metaethics

- Non-naturalistic realism
David Enoch

- Naturalistic realism
Peter Railton

- Error Theory
Jonas Olson

- Fictionalism
Richard Joyce

- Expressivism
Elisabeth Camp

- Contextualism
Alex Silk

- Relativism
Isidora Stojanovic

II. Central problems and strategies in metaethics

- Realism and objectivity
Billy Dunaway

- Metaphysical relations in metaethics
Gideon Rosen

- The supervenience challenge to non-naturalism
Pekka Väyrynen

- Vagueness and indeterminacy in ethics
Tom Dougherty

- Deontic modals
Jennifer Carr

- Thick concepts
Debbie Roberts

- The Frege-Geach problem
Jack Woods

- Hybrid accounts of ethical thought and talk
Teemu Toppinen

- Conceptual role accounts of meaning in metaethics
Matthew Chrisman

- The significance of disagreement for theories of ethical thought and talk

Gunnar Björnsson

- Cognitivism and non-cognitivism
Matt Bedke

- Ethical judgment and motivation
David Faraci and Tristram McPherson

- Reasons internalism
Errol Lord and David Plunkett

- The wrong kind of reasons
Howard Nye

- Mind-dependence and moral realism
Connie Rosati

- Constitutivism
Michael Smith

- Constructivism
Melissa Barry

- Normativity and agency
Hille Paakkunainen

- Mores and morals: metaethics and the social world
Kenny Walden

- The autonomy of ethics
Barry Maguire

- Explanatory challenges in metaethics
Josh Schechter

- Ethical expertise
Karen Jones and Francois Schroeter

- Intuitionism in moral epistemology
Elizabeth Tropman

- Ethical skepticism
Matthew Lutz and Jake Ross

- The epistemic significance of moral disagreement
Dustin Locke



III. The status and methodology of metaethics

- Metasemantics and metaethics
Francois Schroeter and Laura Schroeter

- Conceptual analysis in metaethics
Nicholas Laskowski and Stephen Finlay

- Ethics and morality
Stephen Darwall

- The varieties of normativity
Derek Baker

- Pragmatism and metaethics
Andrew Sepielli

- Feminism and metaethics
Amia Srinivasan

- Experimental philosophy and moral theory
Chandra Sripada

- Quasi-realism
Terence Cuneo

- Metaethical Quietism
Karl Schafer and Doug Kremm

- Methodological naturalism in metaethics
Daniel Nolan

- Normative Ethics and Metaethics
Mark Schroeder

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tristram McPherson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University.

David Plunkett is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College.