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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.
List of contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1: Christine Korsgaard: The Relational Nature of the Good
- 2: Jonathan Way: Value and Reasons to Favor
- 3: Kate Manne: On Being Social in Metaethics
- 4: Ruth Chang: Reasons, Commitment, and the Will
- 5: Dale Dorsey: Two Dualisms of Practical Reason
- 6: Jason Decker and Daniel Groll: On the (In)Significance of Moral Disagreement for Moral Knowledge
- 7: Jussi Suikkanen: Moral Error Theory and the Belief Problem
- 8: Alex Silk: Truth Conditions and the Meaning of Ethical Terms
- 9: Terence Cuneo: Properties for Nothing, Facts for Free? Expressivism's Deflationary Gambit
- 10: Teemu Toppinen: Believing in Expressivism
- 11: Mark Schroeder: Tempered Expressivism
- Index
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
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The good-making features of this volume and the reasons to read it have been spelled out above. There is no better way to get an up-to-date impression of a wide variety of the debates in contemporary metaethics.
