Normativity and Naturalism

At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore's Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore's own arguments against ethical naturalism find little acceptance these days, an alternative ground for thinking that ethical properties and facts could not be natural has gained prominence: No natural account can be given of normativity. This collection contains original essays from both sides of the debate. Representing a wide range of metaethical views, the authors develop diverse accounts of normativity and discuss what it means for a concept to be natural.
Contributions are by Norbert Anwander, David Copp, Neil Roughley, Peter Schaber, Thomas Schmidt, Tatjana Tarkian, and Theo van Willigenburg.

About the author

Peter Schaber, studierte Philosophie, Linguistik und Literaturkritik in Zürich; Forschungsaufenthalte in Oxford und London; 1998 bis 2000 Gastprofessor an der Zentralen Einrichtung für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsethik an der Universität Hannover. 2000 bis 2002 Lehrstuhlvertretung am Philosophischen Seminar der Universität Göttingen. Er ist Professor für Angewandte Ethik am Ethik-Zentrum der Universität Zürich. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen der normativen und der angewandten Ethik.

Product details

• Assisted by: Heinrich Ganthaler (Editor), Neil Roughley (Editor), Pete Schaber (Editor), Peter Schaber (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9783110327366
• ISBN: 978-3-11-032736-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 332 g
• Series: Practical Philosophy; Practical Philosophy; ISSN
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous