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A World Without Values Richard Joyce

A World Without Values By Richard Joyce

A World Without Values by Richard Joyce


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What kind of properties are moral qualities, such as rightness, badness, etc? These moral error theorists argue that the world simply does not contain the kind of properties or objects necessary to render our moral judgments true.

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A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory by Richard Joyce

What kind of properties are moral qualities, such as rightness, badness, etc? Some ethicists doubt that there are any such properties; they maintain that thinking that something is morally wrong (for example) is comparable to thinking that something is a unicorn or a ghost. These moral error theorists argue that the world simply does not contain the kind of properties or objects necessary to render our moral judgments true. This radical form of moral skepticism was championed by the philosopher John Mackie (1917-1981). This anthology is a collection of philosophical essays critically examining Mackie's view.

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A World without Values contains some of the best contemporary evaluations to date both of Mackie's error theory and of its wider philosophical significance. It is also the first multi-authored work on this scale devoted exclusively to this topic. As such, it is a significant event. Hallvard Lillehammer (Cambridge University) in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, July 2010

Chapter provides a good explanation of Mackie's moral error theory. ... Overall, this volume will be excellent reading for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of Mackie's moral error theory in particular, or in the metaethical debate between moral realists and anti-realists more generally. (Diego E. Machuca, Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXI (5), 2011)

About Richard Joyce

Richard Joyce is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1998, after which he was a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of The Myth of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006).

Simon Kirchn is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent. He received his PhD from the University of Sheffield and subsequently taught at the University of Bristol. He is the author of a number of papers in metaethics and the co-editor (with Andrew Fisher) of Arguing About Metaethics (2006). He is currently writing a book on thick concepts. He was elected President of the British Society of Ethical Theory in 2008 and is an Assistant Editor of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.

Table of Contents

Against Ethics.- Nihilism, Nietzsche, and the Doppelganger Problem.- Patterns of Objectification.- Mackie's Internalisms.- Mackie's Realism: Queer Pigs and the Web of Belief.- Mackie on Practical Reason.- The Argument from Moral Experience.- Beyond the Error Theory.- Normativity, Deliberation, and Queerness.- A Tension in the Moral Error Theory.- Business as Usual? The Error Theory, Internalism, and the Function of Morality.- The Fictionalist's Attitude Problem.- Abolishing Morality.

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A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory by Richard Joyce
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Springer
2012-03-14
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