McPherson / Plunkett The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-81792-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
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.