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New Waves in Metaethics

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: New Waves in Philosophy (NWIP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Michael Brady
    Pages 1-6
  3. Ethical Non-Naturalism and Normative Properties

    • William J. FitzPatrick
    Pages 7-35
  4. Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price

    • Joshua Gert
    Pages 36-61
  5. In Defense of Moral Error Theory

    • Jonas Olson
    Pages 62-84
  6. The Myth of Moral Fictionalism

    • Terence Cuneo, Sean Christy
    Pages 85-102
  7. How Not to Avoid Wishful Thinking

    • Mark Schroeder
    Pages 126-140
  8. Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition

    • Julia Markovits
    Pages 141-165
  9. A Wrong Turn to Reasons?

    • Pekka Väyrynen
    Pages 185-207
  10. Shmagency Revisited

    • David Enoch
    Pages 208-233
  11. The Authority of Social Norms

    • Nicholas Southwood
    Pages 234-248
  12. Moral Epistemology

    • Alison Hills
    Pages 249-263
  13. Aesthetics and Particularism

    • Sean McKeever, Michael Ridge
    Pages 264-285
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 286-300

About this book

Metaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Michael Brady

About the editor

MATTHEW CHRISMAN is a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, UK SEAN CHRISTY is a recent graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA TERENCE CUNEO is Associate Professor at the University of Vermont, USA DAVID ENOCH is the Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jacob I. Berman Associate Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel WILLIAM J. FITZPATRICK is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester, USA JOSHUA GERT is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary, USA ALISON HILLS is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, UK ULRIKE HEUER is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK JULIA MARKOVITS joined the MIT Philosophy Faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2009, after spending three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows SEAN MCKEEVER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Davidson College, USA JONAS OLSON is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Stockholm University, Sweden MICHAEL RIDGE of Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK MARK SCHROEDER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, USA NICHOLAS SOUTHWOOD is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, UK, an assistant professor in the Philosophy Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University PEKKAVÄYRYNEN is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Leeds, UK

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