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The Moral Universe explores central questions in metaethics concerning the nature of moral reality, its fundamental laws, its relation to the natural world, and its normative authority. It offers the most fully developed account of nonnatural moral realism to date.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART I FOUNDATIONS
- 1: Methodology in Metaethics
- 2: Moral Realism and Its Burdens
- 3: Nonnaturalism and Enchantment
- PART II METAPHYSICS
- 4: Moral Reality
- 5: Moral Conceptual Truths and Real Definitional Facts
- 6: Objectivity
- 7: Tethering Moral Reality
- PART III NORMATIVITY
- 8: Strong Moral Reasons: Defense
- 9: Categoricity without Alienation
- 10: Strong Moral Reasons: Explanation
- 11: Why Be Moral?
- PART IV MORAL ESSENCE
- 12: The Principle of Befittingness
- 13: Deep Normativity
- Envoi
About the author
John Bengson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Terence Cuneo is Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of Vermont. He is the author of six books, as well as the editor of numerous others. He works primarily in the areas of moral philosophy, history of modern philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Past President of the American Philosophical Association (Central), editor of
Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Director of the Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics, and organizer of the annual Madison Metaethics Workshop. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books in philosophy.
Summary
The Moral Universe explores central questions in metaethics concerning the nature of moral reality, its fundamental laws, its relation to the natural world, and its normative authority. It offers the most fully developed account of nonnatural moral realism to date.
