Naturalistic Fallacy

Presents a definitive guide to the text, history and philosophy behind the most influential argument in the history of ethics.

List of contents

Introduction Neil Sinclair; 1. The naturalistic fallacy and the history of metaethics Neil Sinclair; 2. The naturalistic fallacy: what it is, and what it isn't Fred Feldman; 3. The context and origin of Moore's Formulation of the Naturalistic Fallacy in Principia Ethica Consuelo Preti; 4. No-ought-from-is, the naturalistic fallacy and the fact/value distinction: the history of a mistake Charles Pigden; 5. Evolution and the naturalistic fallacy Michael Ruse; 6. Motivation, recommendation, non-cognitivism and the naturalistic fallacy Mark van Roojen; 7. Open question arguments and the irreducibility of ethical normativity William J. FitzPatrick; 8. Should analytical descriptivists worry about the naturalistic fallacy? Susana Nuccetelli; 9. Normativity and the naturalistic fallacy Connie S. Rosati; 10. The naturalistic fallacy and theological ethics Christian B. Miller; 11. The phenomenology of moral deliberation and the non-naturalistic fallacy Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons; 12. Epistemic relativism and the naturalistic fallacy J. Adam Carter.

About the author

Neil Sinclair is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He has written for a number of journals such as Analysis, The Philosophical Quarterly, Biology and Philosophy and The European Journal of Philosophy, and was co-editor with Uri D. Leibowitz of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability (2016).

Summary

This book is for all students and scholars interested in the nature of human ethics and morality. The themed chapters introduce the history and text behind the naturalistic fallacy, its role in shaping twentieth-century theorising about ethics, and its ongoing use in attempts to understand the nature of normativity.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Sinclair, Neil (University of Nottingham) Sinclair
• Assisted by: Neil Sinclair (Editor), Neil (University of Nottingham) Sinclair (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107168794
• ISBN: 978-1-107-16879-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: Classic Philosophical Argument; Classic Philosophical Arguments; Classic Philosophical Argument
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -