Metaethics explored

Metaethics explored /

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Davis, Paul
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Tirril : Humanities-Ebooks, 2007
Series:	Philosophy insights.
Subjects:	Ethics. ethics (philosophy)
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central

Table of Contents:

Cover
Copyright and Use
Title Page
Contents
A Note on the Author
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introducing the Issues
1.1 Some Everyday Moral Utterances
1.2 What are they about?
1.3 The Attractions of a Popular Picture
1.4 Rules: A Patch on Moralityâ€?s Surface?
1.5 From Angry Young Men and Women to â€??
1.6 Metaethics and Normative Ethics Revisited
1.7 Summary and Reflection
Chapter 2. Cognitivism and Noncognitivism
2.1 The Basic Distinction
2.2 Moral Realism and Moral Irrealism
2.3 Error and Success Theories2.4 Moral Knowledge Again
2.5 The Truth Conditions of Moral Statements
2.6 Critical Reflections on the Proposed Truth Conditions of Moral Statements
2.7 Divine Command Theory of Morality
2.8 Kantianism
Chapter 3. Objectivist Realism under Siege
3.1 A Philosophical Health Warning
3.2 David Hume
3.3 Humeâ€?s Arguments Considered
3.4 Mackieâ€?s Argument from Queerness
3.5 So Where are We?
3.6 Emotivism
Chapter 4. Out on the Street
4.1 The Death of God
4.2 The Death of Deference
4.3 Moral Disagreement4.4 Multiculturalism
4.5 Rejection of Specific Moral Beliefs
4.6 Seedy Underbelly of Conventional Morality
4.7 Decline in Communal and Symbolic Life
4.7 Reluctance to be Judgemental
4.8 Postmodern Irony
Chapter 5â€?A Naturalist Objectivist Realism?
5.1 The Basic Features
5.2 Mooreâ€?s Open Question Argument
5.3 Empirical Reasoning and Moral Facts
5.4 Morality and Objectivist Naturalism
5.5 Ethics and Natural Disciplines
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