Essays on Moral Realism
Title | Essays on Moral Realism PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Sayre-McCord |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780801495410 |
This collection of influential essays illustrates the range, depth, and importance of moral realism, the fundamental issues it raises, and the problems it faces.
Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics
Title | Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | David Owen Brink |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 394 |
Release | 1989-02-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780521359375 |
A systematic analysis considers the objectivity of ethics, the relationship between the moral point of view and a scientific or naturalist worldview and its role in a person's rational lifespan.
Realism and Antirealism in Kant's Moral Philosophy
Title | Realism and Antirealism in Kant's Moral Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Robinson dos Santos |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2017-12-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110574519 |
The debate between moral realism and antirealism plays an important role in contemporary metaethics as well as in the interpretation of Kant’s moral philosophy. This volume aims to clarify whether, and in what sense, Kant is a moral realist, an antirealist, or something in-between. Based on an explication of the key metaethical terms, internationally recognized Kant scholars discuss the question of how Kant’s moral philosophy should be understood in this regard. All camps in the metaethical field have their inhabitants: Some contributors read Kant’s philosophy in terms of a more or less robust moral realism, objectivism, or idealism, and some of them take it to be a version of constructivism, constitutionism, or brute antirealism. In any case, all authors introduce and defend their terminology in a clear manner and argue thoughtfully and refreshingly for their positions. With contributions of Stefano Bacin, Jochen Bojanowski, Christoph Horn, Patrick Kain, Lara Ostaric, Fred Rauscher, Oliver Sensen, Elke Schmidt, Dieter Schönecker, and Melissa Zinkin.
Does Anything Really Matter?
Title | Does Anything Really Matter? PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Singer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-01-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191084395 |
In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, Parfit argues that if there are no objective normative truths, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. He criticizes, often forcefully, many leading contemporary philosophers working on the nature of ethics, including Simon Blackburn, Stephen Darwall, Allen Gibbard, Frank Jackson, Peter Railton, Mark Schroeder, Michael Smith, and Sharon Street. Does Anything Really Matter? gives these philosophers an opportunity to respond to Parfit's criticisms, and includes essays on Parfit's views by Richard Chappell, Andrew Huddleston, Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Bruce Russell, and Larry Temkin. A third volume of On What Matters, in which Parfit engages with his critics and breaks new ground in finding significant agreement between his own views and theirs, is appearing as a separate companion volume.
Essays in Quasi-realism
Title | Essays in Quasi-realism PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Blackburn |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Realism |
ISBN | 0195080416 |
This volume collects together the author's pioneering essays on "quasi-realism", a philosophical position he first introduced in 1980 which has become a distinctive and much discussed option in metaphysics and ethics
Realism and Antirealism in Kant's Moral Philosophy
Title | Realism and Antirealism in Kant's Moral Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Robinson dos Santos |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 242 |
Release | 2017-12-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3110572346 |
The debate between moral realism and antirealism plays an important role in contemporary metaethics as well as in the interpretation of Kant’s moral philosophy. This volume aims to clarify whether, and in what sense, Kant is a moral realist, an antirealist, or something in-between. Based on an explication of the key metaethical terms, internationally recognized Kant scholars discuss the question of how Kant’s moral philosophy should be understood in this regard. All camps in the metaethical field have their inhabitants: Some contributors read Kant’s philosophy in terms of a more or less robust moral realism, objectivism, or idealism, and some of them take it to be a version of constructivism, constitutionism, or brute antirealism. In any case, all authors introduce and defend their terminology in a clear manner and argue thoughtfully and refreshingly for their positions. With contributions of Stefano Bacin, Jochen Bojanowski, Christoph Horn, Patrick Kain, Lara Ostaric, Fred Rauscher, Oliver Sensen, Elke Schmidt, Dieter Schönecker, and Melissa Zinkin.
Time and Ethics
Title | Time and Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | H. L. Dyke |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-03-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401735301 |
There is a pressing need for an investigation into how time and ethics impact on each other. This book leads the way in addressing that need. The essays in this collection raise and investigate some of the key issues that arise at the intersection between these two areas of philosophy. It is for undergraduates, postgraduates and professional philosophers.