The Naturalistic Fallacy

ISBN-13: 9781316618011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 294 str.

Neil Sinclair

Opis

This book is for all students and scholars interested in the nature of human ethics and morality. The themed chapters introduce the history and text behind the naturalistic fallacy, its role in shaping twentieth-century theorising about ethics, and its ongoing use in attempts to understand the nature of normativity.

Spis treści

Introduction Neil Sinclair; 1. The naturalistic fallacy and the history of metaethics Neil Sinclair; 2. The naturalistic fallacy: what it is, and what it isn't Fred Feldman; 3. The context and origin of Moore's Formulation of the Naturalistic Fallacy in Principia Ethica Consuelo Preti; 4. No-ought-from-is, the naturalistic fallacy and the fact/value distinction: the history of a mistake Charles Pigden; 5. Evolution and the naturalistic fallacy Michael Ruse; 6. Motivation, recommendation, non-cognitivism and the naturalistic fallacy Mark van Roojen; 7. Open question arguments and the irreducibility of ethical normativity William J. FitzPatrick; 8. Should analytical descriptivists worry about the naturalistic fallacy? Susana Nuccetelli; 9. Normativity and the naturalistic fallacy Connie S. Rosati; 10. The naturalistic fallacy and theological ethics Christian B. Miller; 11. The phenomenology of moral deliberation and the non-naturalistic fallacy Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons; 12. Epistemic relativism and the naturalistic fallacy J. Adam Carter.