Foundations of Ethics An Anthology

Informationen zum Autor Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (2003) and Moral Realism: A Defence (2005). He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 1 (2006) and Ethical Theory: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007). Terence Cuneo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College. He works primarily in the areas of ethics and the history of philosophy. He is co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid (with René van Woudenberg, 2004), editor of Religion in the Liberal Polity (2005), and author of The Normative Web: An Argument for Moral Realism (2007). Klappentext Foundations of Ethics is a collection of seminal articles in metaethics. Organized into two parts, the first section investigates issues in the ontology of morality, such as whether there are objective moral standards. The second section considers related topics, such as whether moral considerations are essentially reason-giving, the nature of moral knowledge, and the differences between ethics and natural science. Designed for students of ethical theory, this volume provides an extensive selection of primary sources and corresponding expert commentary. * Covers all of the major issues in metaethics including moral metaphysics, epistemology, moral psychology, and philosophy of language. * Provides an unrivaled offering of primary sources and expert commentary for students of ethical theory. * Includes essays by renowned ethicists such as G.E.

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• Assisted by: Terence Cuneo (Editor), Russ (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Shafer-Landau (Editor), Cuneo Terence (Editor), Terence (Calvin College) Cuneo (Editor), Shafer-Landau Russ (Editor), Russ Shafer-Landau (Editor)
• Authors: Shafer-Landau, Cuneo, Russ (University of Wisconsin-Madis Shafer-Landau, Russ Cuneo Shafer-Landau, R Shafer-Landau, Russ Shafer-Landau
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 21.09.2006
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9781405129510
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-2951-0
• Pages: 520
• Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologi; Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies; Blackwell Philosophy Anthologi
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Ethics and moral philosophy