Morality in a Natural World
Morality in a Natural World
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USDThe central philosophical challenge of metaethics is to account for the normativity of moral judgment without abandoning or seriously compromising moral realism. In Morality in a Natural World, David Copp defends a version of naturalistic moral realism that can accommodate the normativity of morality. Moral naturalism is often thought to face special metaphysical, epistemological, and semantic problems as well as the difficulty in accounting for normativity. In the ten essays included in this volume, Copp defends solutions to these problems. Three of the essays are new, while seven have previously been published. All of them are concerned with the viability of naturalistic and realistic accounts of the nature of morality, or, more generally, with the viability of naturalistic accounts of reasons.
- Comprises ten important articles on normativity, naturalism, and related topics
- Includes articles published in obscure places as well as three new and previously unpublished articles
- Stakes out new positions on 'moral necessities', expressivism, normativity, reasons, and other topics
Reviews & endorsements
"Morality in a Natural World is without a doubt a valuable and pleasant read for any serious student of philosphy."
Tatiana Patrone, Metapsychology
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September 2007Adobe eBook Reader
9780511292842
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Naturalism: Epistemology and Metaphysics:
- 1. Why naturalism?
- 2. Four epistemological challenges to ethical naturalism: naturalized epistemology and the first-person perspective
- 3. Moral naturalism and self-evident moral truths
- 4. Moral necessities in a contingent world
- Part II. Referring to Moral Properties:
- 5. Realist-expressivism: a neglected option for moral realism
- 6. Milk, honey, and the good life on moral twin earth
- 7. Referring to moral properties: moral twin-earth, again
- Part III. Naturalism and Normativity:
- 8. Moral naturalism and three grades of normativity
- 9. The ring of gyges: overridingness and the unity of reason
- 10. The normativity of self-grounded reason.
