The contents of the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics
nicely mirror the variety of issues that make this area of philosophy
so interesting. The volume opens with Peter Railton's exploration of
some central features of normative guidance, the mental states that
underwrite it, and its relationship to our reasons for feeling and
acting. In the next offering, Terence Cuneo takes up the case against
expressivism, arguing that its central account of the nature of moral
judgments is badly mistaken. Terence Horgan and Mark Timmons, two of
the most prominent contemporary expressivists, then offer their take
on how expressivism manages to avoid a different objection-that of
collapsing into an objectionable form of relativism. Daniel Jacobson
and Justin D'Arms next offer an article that continues their research
program devoted to exploring the extent to which values might depend
upon, or be constrained by, human psychology. Ralph Wedgwood engages
in some classical metaethical conceptual analysis, seeking to
explicate the meaning of ought. Mark van Roojen then contributes a new
take on the Moral Twin Earth Argument, a prominent anti-realist puzzle
advanced in the early 1990s by Horgan and Timmons. Allan Gibbard next
presents his latest thoughts on the nature of moral feelings and moral
concepts, crucial elements in the overall project of defending the
expressivism he is so well known for. James Dreier then takes up the
details of Gibbard's recent efforts to provide a solution to what many
view as the most serious difficulty for expressivism, namely, the
Frege-Geach problem. Dreier identifies difficulties in Gibbard's
expressivist account, and offers a suggestion for their solution.
Sergio Tenenbaum explores the concept of a direction of fit, relied on
so heavily nowadays in accounts of moral motivation. Nadeem Hussain
and Nishiten Shah then consider the merits of Christine Korsgaard's
influential critique of moral realism. T. M. Scanlon's
widely-discussed buck-passing account of value attracts the critical
eye of Pekka Väyrynen, who attempts to reveal the reasons that we
might resist it. Derek Parfit's contribution concludes this volume,
with an article on normativity that presents his most recent thinking
on this fundamental notion.
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Volume 1
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ISBN
9780191537646
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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