Moral Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9780415485531 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str.

Aaron Zimmerman

Opis

Can virtue be taught? How can we know – and justify - the right thing to do? Moral epistemology studies the question of whether and how we know right from wrong. It is one of the perennial problems of philosophy, reaching back to Plato and Aristotle, and has recently been the subject of intense debate as a result of findings in developmental and social psychology.

In this outstanding introduction to the subject Aaron Zimmerman covers the following key topics:

• What is moral epistemology? Including Socrates, Gettier, Frege and Moore
• Methodological questions facing moral epistemology, including cognitivism and noncogntivism and
• Challenges to moral epistemology from moral nihilism and scepticism, including debates concerning god and morality and the role of motives and reasons in grounding morality
• Moral disagreement, including contextualism

Also including chapter summaries and further reading Moral Epistemology is essential reading for students of ethics and epistemology.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Moral Epistemology: Content and Method  2. Moral Disagreement  3. Moral Nihilism  4. The Skeptic and the Intuitionist  5. Deductive Moral Knowledge  6. Abductive Moral Knowledge  7. The Reliability of our Moral Jjudgments  8. Epilogue: Challenges to Moral Epistemology.  Glossary.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Aaron Zimmerman is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University California, Santa Barbara. His research is focused on the intersection between thought, language and reason and he writes and teaches on David Hume's philosophical work.