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Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 By Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 by Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


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Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 Summary

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 by Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here.

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 Reviews

the vast majority of the articles in both volumes deserve careful studying by researchers working in meta-ethics and more generally interested in the nature of normativity. * Francesco Orsi, Philosophy in Review *

About Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Russ Shafer-Landau is professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Moral Realism: A Defence (OUP 2003), which received an honourable mention for the 2005 APA Book Prize, and Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (OUP 2004).

Table of Contents

Introduction ; 1. Mind-Independence Without the Mystery: Why Quasi-Realists Can't Have It Both Ways ; 2. How Much Realism? Evolved Thinkers and Normative Concepts ; 3. Parfit's Case against Subjectivism ; 4. Desire-Based Theories of Reasons, Pleasure and Welfare ; 5. Moral Knowledge and Experience ; 6. Passing the Deontic Buck ; 7. The Accidental Error Theorist ; 8. Getting Real about Moral Fictionalism ; 9. A New and Improved Supervenience Argument for Ethical Descriptivism ; 10. Activity and Passivity in Reflective Agency ; 11. Why be An Internalist about Reasons? ; 12. Instrumental Rationality ; Index

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NPB9780199606375
9780199606375
0199606374
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 6 by Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Oxford University Press
2011-06-30
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