New Essays on Normative Realism

Paul Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He was previously Associate Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Visiting Professor at Princeton, and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written and lectured on a wide range of issues in epistemology, metaphysics, the theory of meaning and concepts, the nature of rules, self-knowledge, color, the aesthetics of music, and the concept of genocide.Christopher Peacocke taught for many years in London and Oxford, eventually as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, before moving to New York University in 2000. He has been at Columbia University since 2004, where he is currently the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered the Whitehead Lectures at Harvard, the Kant Lectures at Stanford, the Evans Lecture at Oxford, and the Nicod Lectures in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

• 1: Paul BoghossianChristopher Peacocke: Normative Realism: An Introduction to the Issues 2: Christopher Peacocke: Moral Realism: A Rationalist Metaphysics-First Treatment 3: Declan Smithies: On Foundational Moral Knowledge 4: Sarah McGrath: Ethics: How Hard Can It Be? 5: Sharon Street: How to Be a Relativist About Normativity 6: Matti Eklund: Alternative Concepts, Ardor, and Elusive Questions 7: Shamik Dasgupta: Objectivity as a Normative Notion (Twice Over) 8: Paul Boghossian: Minimalism, the Synthetic A Priori, and Alternative Normative Concepts 9: Justin Clarke-Doane: What Is Logical Monism? 10: John BengsonTerence CuneoRuss Shafer-Landau: Normative Authority 11: Claire Kirwin: Normativity from the First-Person Perspective 12: John Broome: Is There Reason? Are There Reason-Forces? 13: Hannah Ginsborg: The Reality of Primitive Norms 14: Michael Tomasello andIvan Gonzalez-Cabrera: How to Build a Normative Creature 15: Samantha Matherne: Kant on the Aesthetic Normativity of Colors and Tones 16: Mark Johnston: The Objective Prescriptive Core of Morality 17: Gideon Rosen: The Explanatory Role of Moral Principles 18: Antonia Peacocke: Realism, Particularism, and Grounding in Aesthetics 19: Crispin Wright: Reflections on Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Arithmetic