Descriptive Ethics

Nora Hämäläinen is a docent (affiliated senior researcher) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and a research fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden, 2016-2017. She is the author of Literature and Moral Theory and has co-edited the volume Language, Ethics and Animal Life — Wittgenstein and Beyond (with Niklas Forsberg and Mikel Burley).

• Introduction – What Does Moral Philosophy Know About Morality?.- 1.  Moral Philosophy Today.- 2. Morality as Known by Moral Philosophers.- 3. The Foundational Project of Ethics and a Different Way of going Below the Surface.- 4. The Challenge from X-phi?.- 5. Dewey’s Empirical Ethics.- 6. Wittgensteinian Applications.- 7. Foucault’s Archeology and Genealogy of the Self.- 8. Charles Taylor’s Modern Self.- 9. The Descriptive and the Empirical.- 10. Descriptive Ethics and the Philosopher.