Companions in Guilt Arguments in Metaethics

Christopher Cowie is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK. His book The Repugnant Conclusion: A Philosophical Inquiry is forthcoming with Routledge.Rach Cosker-Rowland is an Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at the University of Leeds, UK. They are author of The Normative and the Evaluative: The Buck-Passing Account of Value (2019), and Moral Disagreement (Routledge, 2020).

• Introduction Part 1: Methodology 1. Companions in Guilt: Entailment, Analogy, and Absorbtion Hallvard Lillehammer 2. Two Kinds of Companion in Guilt Louise Hanson Part 2: Normativity and Error Theory 3. Moral and epistemic normativity: The guilty and the innocent Richard Joyce 4. Metaethics Out of Speech Acts? Moral Error Theory and the Possibility of Speech Jonas Olson 5. The Prudential Companions-in-Guilt Objection to Moral Error Theory Wouter Kalf Part 3: Alternative Companions: Mathematics and Aesthetics 6. Objectivity and Evaluation Justin Clarke-Doane 7. Moral Pluralism and Companions in Guilt Ramon Das 8. Contemporary Work on Debunking Arguments in Morality and Mathematics Christopher Cowie 9. Aesthetic properties, mind-independence, and companions in guilt Daan Evers Part 4: Moral Epistemology 10. Ethics and Perception: Two Kinds of Quasi-Realism James Lenman 11. Companions in Guilt Arguments in the Epistemology of Moral Disagreement Rach Cosker-Rowland 12. Companions in Love: Iris Murdoch on Attunement in the Condition of Moral Realism Anna Bergqvist. Index

'I learnt a huge amount about particular debates from reading this book, and anyone with an interest in the forefront of contemporary metaethics is likely to find at least one extremely useful and engaging chapter in it.' - Luke Elson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews