Methodology and Moral Philosophy

Jussi Suikkanen is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Birmingham. His main research interests are in metaethics and normative ethics. He has published articles on moral metaphysics, psychology, and semantics and ethical theories such as contractualism and consequentialism.Antti Kauppinen is Professor of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He has wide-ranging research interests in ethics and metaethics, inluding topics such as well-being and the meaning of life, the role of emotions in morality and the nature of reasons and rationality.

• 1. IntroductionJussi SuikkanenPart I: The Prospects of Empirical Ethics2. How to Debunk Moral BeliefsVictor Kumar and Joshua May3. Who’s Afraid of Trolleys?Antti Kauppinen4. Learnability and Moral Nativism: Exploring Wilde RulesTyler Millhouse, Alisabeth Ayars and Shaun NicholsPart II: New Methods5. Metaethics from a First-Person StandpointCatherine Wilson6. Consequentialism and the Evaluation of Action qua ActionAndrew SepielliPart III: Evaluations of Recent Methods7. The Similarity Hypothesis in MetaethicsChristopher Cowie8. The ThatJames Lenman9. Footing the Cost (of Normative Subjectivism)Jack WoodsPart IV: Metaethics and Normative Ethics10. Normative Commitments in Metanormative TheoryPekka Väyrynen11. Revisionist MetaethicsMatthew Silverstein

"The methodology of philosophy, in general, has been the subject of intense discussion in recent years, with valuable new ideas and positions emerging from these debates. However, the methodology of moral philosophy, in particular, has not received the same kind of renewed and focused attention. This volume rectifies that omission by bringing together an excellent collection of essays on moral methodology. Some of these essays shed new light on old issues but the main focus is on new methods and ideas. Anyone interested in understanding, and evaluating, the methods we use in ethical theorizing will want to read this book." – Yuri Cath, La Trobe University, Australia