Description
Book SynopsisThis volume of Philosophical Issues, on normativity, has unusually broad scope, and should have correspondingly broad appeal both because of its issues and because of its contributors.
- This volume includes pieces on moral psychology, theory of reasons and rationality, political philosophy, ethics, metaethics, and epistemology.
- Includes a book symposium on Brad Hooker''s Ideal Code, Real World, with contributions by Richard Arneson and Alison McIntyre, along with Brad Hooker''s response.
Table of ContentsMETAETHICS. Two Arguments for Sentimentalism (Justin D'arms).
The Open Question Argument: What it Isn't; and What it Is (Fred Feldman).
Moral Particularism and Transduction (Gilbert Harman).
Moral Phenomenology and Moral Theory (Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons).
The Frege-Geach Point(Paul Horwich).
What Are Cognitivist Doing When They Do Normative Ethics (Frank Jackson).
Error Theory and the Possibility of Normative Ethics(Russ Shafer-Landau).
NORMATIVE ETHICS.
Wrongs Within Rights(Robert Audi).
Ross Utilitarianism on Promise Keeping and Lying: Self-Evidence and the Data of Ethics Thomas L. Carson).
Assessing Moral Rules: Utilitarian and Kantian Perspectives (Thomas E. Hill, JR).
Kantian Fairness (George Sher).
You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourself (When you Violate an Imperfect Moral Obligation) (Walter Sinnott-Armstrong).
The Dualism of the Ethical (Michael Slote).
A "New" Principle of Aggregation (Larry Temkin).
Book Symposium on Brad Hooker's Ideal Code, Real World.
Sophisticated Rule Consequentialism: Some Simple Objections (Richard Arneson).
Brad Hooker's Ideal Code, Real World (The Perils of Holism).
Reply to Arneson and McIntyre (Brad Hooker).
Content and Normativity.
How it is not "Just Like Diabetes": Mental Disorders and the Moral Psychologist (Nomy Arpaly).
A New Map of Theories of Mental Content: Locating Normative Theories (Mark Greenberg).
Rationality and Truth.
Does Rationality Give Us Reasons.\ Truth and Correct Belief (Allan Gibbard).
APPLIED ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Political Authority and the Tyranny of Non-Consent (David Estlund).
Moral Arrogance and Moral Therories (Bernard Gert).
The Basis of Moral Liability to Defensive Killing (Jeff Mcmahan)
