Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

Realism and Naturalism in Ethics

Selected Essays

Av Nicholas Sturgeon, David O. Brink, Terence Irwin, Julia Markovits

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This collection of Nicholas Sturgeon's most important and influential essays on ethics and its history presents an impressive cumulative argument for naturalist moral realism, and a defence of it against the most prominent competing views in metaethics. These essays defend a unified view of the metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, and psychology of ethics. Naturalistic moral realism treats moral judgments as capable of being true or false, and takes their truth conditions to be independent of the appraiser's moral beliefs and attitudes. Moral facts and properties are part of the natural order, not requiring divine or supernatural support. Reductive analytical definitions of moral terms are rejected, and a non-reductive form of synthetic naturalism. is accepted. If moral properties are natural, they ought to explain both the actions of individuals and larger social movements. Hence moral explanations are sometimes good psychological and historical explanations. Non-reductive naturalism supports the autonomy of ethics in relation to the natural and social sciences. This form of ethical naturalism contrasts not only with analytical naturalism but also with those forms of non-naturalism that treat moral facts and properties as sui generis. The defense of naturalistic realism includes full and careful discussions of different forms of irrealism - expressivism, nihilism, and relativism. The essays are interrelated, introducing readers to different positions that are explored in more detail in other essays. Six essays discuss historical figures: Butler, Hume (three essays), Mill, and Moore. The realist and naturalist outlook of the other essays informs and unifies the discussion of historical figures in ways that highlight novel and distinctive interpretive and comparative perspective in the history of ethics. Students of Hume will benefit especially from the three essays that contrast Hume's actual views with the 'Humean' views that are often attributed to him.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2027-03-25
Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 520
Förlag: OUP OXFORD
ISBN: 9780192874771

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Nicholas Sturgeon (1942-2020) received his BA in philosophy from Carleton College in 1964 and his PhD from Princeton in 1972. He taught in the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University from 1967 to 2013 and as Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy from 2011. He served for six years as department chair, and for nine years as an editor of The Philosophical Review. He published widely and influentially on ethics, metaethics and their history, and on British Empiricism.David O. Brink completed his PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University in 1984. He was Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University 1985-87, Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University 1986, Assistant and then Associate Professor at MIT 1987-94. He has been at the University of California, San Diego since 1994, where he is now Distinguished Professor and Valtz Family Chair in Philosophy. His research interests are in ethical theory, history of ethics, moral psychology, political philosophy, and jurisprudence.Terence Irwin is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Keble College. From 1975 to 2006 he was a colleague of Nicholas Sturgeon at Cornell University. His publications include Aristotle's First Principles (OUP, 1988). Plato's Ethics (OUP, 1995), The Development of Ethics (OUP, 2007-9), Ethics Through History (OUP, 2020) and Aristotle's Ethical Works (OUP, 2026).Julia Markovits is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University. She joined the Cornell faculty in 2014, after a junior fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows and five years as a member of the faculty of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. She is the author of Moral Reason (OUP, 2014) and has published papers on the nature of moral reasons, praise- and blameworthiness, and our practices of praising and blaming.

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