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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451537203321

Autore

Horgan Terry <1948->

Titolo

Metaethics after Moore [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, UK, 2006

ISBN

1-280-90558-1

0-19-151504-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TimmonsMark <1951->

Disciplina

170

170/.42

Soggetti

Ethics

Moore, G. E

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. How Should Ethics Relate to (the Rest of) Philosophy? Moore's Legacy; 2. What Do Reasons Do?; 3. Evaluations of Rationality; 4. Intrinsic Value and Reasons for Action; 5. Personal Good; 6. Moore on the Right, the Good, and Uncertainty; 7. Scanlon versus Moore on Goodness; 8. Opening Questions, Following Rules; 9. Was Moore a Moorean?; 10. Ethics as Philosophy: A Defense of Ethical Nonnaturalism; 11. The Legacy of Principia; 12. Cognitivist Expressivism; 13. Truth and the Expressing in Expressivism; 14. Normative Properties

15. Moral Intuitionism Meets Empirical Psychology16. Ethics Dehumanized; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This substantial collection of sixteen original papers is one of a number of publishing ventures to have recently marked the centenary of the publication of G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica. It is not primarily a historical enterprise. Evidently what the editors have encouraged contributors to provide are cutting edge contributions to contemporary metaethics that engage with Moorean themes and concerns in ways that make the continuing relevance of those themes manifest. And this,



to. an impressive extent, is precisely what most of them have delivered. . . . This is a rewarding collection of pape