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Zusatztext The essays are generally excellent and are well worth reading for those interested in these debates. Informationen zum Autor Uri D. Leibowitz studied Physics and Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. He earned his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before joining Nottingham's Department of Philosophy he had taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Cornell College. He has published papers in Noûs, Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy,and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. His work covers issues in metaethics and normative ethics, the philosophy of science, and ancient philosophy. He has been awarded an AHRC-funded research project on explanation in ethics. Neil Sinclair studied philosophy at both Cambridge and Oxford before joining the Philosophy Department at the University of Nottingham. His principal research area is metaethics. He has published papers in Philosophical Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, and Biology and Philosophy. His work covers issues such as the nature of truth, belief and moral mental content, the evolutionary origins of moral judgement, the logic of moral arguments, moral mind-independence, and the nature of moral explanations. He has been awarded two AHRC-funded research projects: one on moral mental content, and one on explanation in ethics. In 2014 he received a University of Nottingham Lord Dearing Award for outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and learning. Klappentext How far should our realism extend, and how should we understand the entities referred to by mathematical and ethical talk? This volume explores how argumentative strategies in the philosophy of mathematics might apply to ethics, and vice versa. A team of experts breaks new ground in both areas and illuminates new questions, arguments, and problems. Zusammenfassung How far should our realism extend, and how should we understand the entities referred to by mathematical and ethical talk? This volume explores how argumentative strategies in the philosophy of mathematics might apply to ethics, and vice versa. A team of experts breaks new ground in both areas and illuminates new questions, arguments, and problems. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Neil Sinclair and Uri Leibowitz: Introduction: Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics Part I: Evolutionary Debunking Arguments 2: Justin Clarke-Doane: Debunking and Dispensability 3: Folke Tersman: Explaining the Reliability of Moral Beliefs 4: Toby Handfield: Genealogical Explanations of Chance and Morals 5: Erik J. Wielenberg: Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Religion and Morality 6: Hallvard Lillehammer: 'An Assumption of Extreme Significance': Moore, Ross and Spencer on Ethics and Evolution 7: Richard Joyce: Reply: Confessions of a Modest Debunker Part II: Indispensability Arguments 8: Alexander Miller: Moral Explanation for Moral Anti-Realism 9: David Liggins: Grounding, Explanation, and Multiple Realization in Mathematics and Ethics 10: Debbie Roberts: Explanatory Indispensability Arguments in Metaethics and Philosophy of Mathematics 11: Mary Leng: Taking Morality Mathematically: Enoch's Indispensability Argument 12: Alan Baker: Non-Optional Projects: Mathematical and Ethical 13: David Enoch: Indispensability Arguments in Metaethics: Even Better than in Mathematics? ...
