Does anything really matter? : essays on Parfit on objectivity / / Peter Singer [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910159008403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 9780191823916; 0-19-182391-0; 0-19-108438-7
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetti: Ethics; Objectivity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface / by Peter Singer -- Has Parfit's life been wasted? : some reflections on Part Six of 'On What Matters' / Larry S. Temkin -- Two sides of the meta-ethical mountain? / Peter Railton -- Parfit on normative concepts and disagreement / Allan Gibbard -- All souls' night / Simon Blackburn -- Parfit's mistaken meta-ethics / Michael Smith -- Nothing "really" matters, but that's not what matters / Sharon Street -- Knowing what matters / Richard Yetter Chappell -- Nietzsche and the hope of normative convergence / Andrew Huddleston -- In defence of reductionism in ethics / Frank Jackson -- What matters about meta-ethics? / Mark Schroeder -- ; A defense of moral intuitionism / Bruce Russell -- Morality, blame, and internal reasons / Stephen Darwall -- Parfit on objectivity and "the profoundest problem in ethics" / Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek ; and Peter Singer.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 'On What Matters', Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He further argues that if he is wrong, nihilism follows, and nothing matters. In 'Does Anything Really Matter?', leading philosophers present a fascinating set of responses to Parfit.