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Book SynopsisA reassessment of metaethics that attempts to undermine the nature/normativity or world/language divide, and offer an alternative account of the world-language relationship. Advocates the need to replace the metaphor of foundations with a metaphor about stability. Incorporates Wittgenstein and contemporary feminist ethicists--Provided by publisher.
Trade Review“In a field that remains paralyzed by whether there exist objective moral values, O’Connor’s work offers a breath of fresh air.”
—Wendy L. Lee,Bloomsburg University
“This is an exciting and important book.”
—Alessandra Tanesini,Cardiff University
“Peg O’Connor offers a compelling Wittgensteinian alternative to the realist-versus-antirealist debates in metaethics. Grounded in ‘deep conventionalism,’ she argues that ‘our world is not one part natural and one part social, but rather is a shared world where these are intermingled and tangled, resulting in ways of acting and conventions that are inescapably bound together.’ In a field that remains paralyzed by whether there exist objective moral values, O’Connor’s work offers a breath of fresh air.”
—Wendy L. Lee,Bloomsburg University
“In this original work O’Connor develops a genuinely novel approach to metaethics. O’Connor’s views are radical, since she replaces both realism and antirealism with a Wittgensteinian approach that firmly relocates metaethics within the context of practical ongoing moral concerns. This is an exciting and important book.”
—Alessandra Tanesini,Cardiff University
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Prolegomenon to Any Future Feminist Metaethics
List of Abbreviations
1. Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics? Revising the Big Book
2. Does the Fabric of the World Include Moral Properties? Realist/Antirealist Debates
3. Neither a Realist nor an Antirealist Be
4. Felted Contextualism: Heterogeneous Stability
5. Normativity and Grammar
6. Philosophical Rags and Mice: Changing the Subject in Moral Epistemology
7. Stability and Objectivity: The Felted World
Bibliography
Index
