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David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends Robust Realism¿a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity, according to which there are perfectly universal and objective moral truths. He offers elaborate positive arguments for the view, and asserts that no other metaethical position can vindicate our taking morality seriously.
List of contents
- 1: The View, The Motivation, The Book
- 2: The Argument from the Moral Implications of Objectivity (or Lack Thereof)
- 3: The Argument from the Deliberative Indispensability of Irreducibly Normative Truths
- 4: And Now, Robust Metaethical Realism
- 5: Doing with Less
- 6: Metaphysics
- 7: Epistemology
- 8: Disagreement
- 9: Motivation
- 10: Tallying Plausibility Points
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
David Enoch teaches law and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since graduating from the NYU Philosophy Department in 2003, Enoch has published papers in metaethics (in such journals as The Philosophical Review, Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and Philosophical Studies); in epistemology (in Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Mind); and in political and legal philosophy (in Law and Philosophy, Legal Theory, The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Theoretical Inquiries in Law).
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David Enoch develops, argues for, and defends Robust Realism--a strongly realist and objectivist view of ethics and normativity, according to which there are perfectly universal and objective moral truths. He offers elaborate positive arguments for the view, and asserts that no other metaethical position can vindicate our taking morality seriously.
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David Enoch's new book ... presents a highly sophisticated case for non-naturalism, brimming with philosophical imagination. ... i greatly admire it. The book beautifully blends philosophical creativity, boldness, and craftsmanship, all the while being appropriately modest about the force of its arguments. Meta-ethics is presently flourishing because of work such as this.
