Metaethics, Volume 19

This is a collection of papers on metaethics very broadly conceived, to include, for example, moral psychology. It contains cutting-edge work by some of the most important contributors to the field.

List of contents

Moral Virtue and Reasons for Action (Robert Audi).

Toward a Pluralist and Teleological Theory of Normativity (David Copp).
Pyrrhonian Moral Skepticism and the Problem of the Criterion (Michael DePaul). 
Skepticism about Persons (John M. Doris).
Expressivism and Contrary-Forming Negation (Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons).
Values and Morals: Outline of a Skeptical Realism (Michael Huemer).
The Ordinary Concept of Valuing (Joshua Knobe and Erica Preston Roedder).
Real Desires and Well-Being (Joseph Mendola). 
Internalism for Externalists (Peter Railton).
Moral Assertion for Expressivists (Mike Ridge).
Relational Good and the Multiplicity Problem (Connie S. Rosati).
Mixed-up Meta-Ethics (Walter Sinnott-Armstrong).
Two Kinds of Consequentialism (Michael Smith).
In Defense of Future Tuesday Indifference: Ideally Coherent Eccentrics and the Contingency of What Matters (Sharon Street).
The Practical Role Essential to Value Judgments (Sigr ¿Un Svavarsd¿ Ottir). 
Intrinsic Values and Reasons for Action (Ralph Wedgwood).
Emotion and the Cognition of Reasons in Moral Motivation (David B. Wong).
Variations in Ethical Intuitions (Jennifer L. Zamzow and Shaun Nichols).
Symposium
Broome and the Intuition of Neutrality (Wlodek Rabinowicz).
Reply to Rabinowicz (John Broome).

About the author

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, and has published extensively in epistemology, metaphysics, and other areas. Enrique Villanueva is a member of the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas at UNAM, and has published in the philosophy of mind.

Summary

This is a collection of papers on metaethics very broadly conceived, to include, for example, moral psychology. It incorporates a broad view of philosophy, utilizing contributions from leading philosophers and provides readers with the latest cutting-edge developments in this extensive subject.

Product details

• Authors: Sosa, E. David Sosa, E. David (Rutgers University Sosa, E. David Villanueva Sosa, Ernest (EDT)/ Villanueva Sosa, Enrique (Instituto De Investigaciones Villanueva
• Assisted by: E David Sosa (Editor), E. David Sosa (Editor), E. David (Rutgers University Sosa (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Sosa E. David (Editor), Enrique Villanueva (Editor), Enrique (Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas at UNAM Villanueva (Editor), Villanueva Enrique (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2009
• EAN: 9781444333992
• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3399-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous; Philosophical Issues (Wiley-Bl; Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous; Philosophical Issues: A Supple; Philosophical Issues (Wiley-Bl
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy