LEADER 03594nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910968291203321 005 20251117073955.0 010 $a1-282-04042-1 010 $a9786612040429 010 $a1-84760-049-2 035 $a(CKB)2430000000015679 035 $a(EBL)3306092 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000826840 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11452956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000826840 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10826626 035 $a(PQKB)11632905 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3306092 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3306092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10567319 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL204042 035 $a(OCoLC)923144877 035 $a(BIP)46852335 035 $a(BIP)27283809 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000015679 100 $a20120613d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMetaethics explored /$fPaul Davis 210 $aTirril [England] ;$aPenrith, Calif. $cHumanities-Ebooks$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (83 p.) 225 1 $aPhilosophy insights 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-84760-067-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a""Cover ""; ""Copyright and Use""; ""Title Page""; ""Contents ""; ""A Note on the Author""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1. Introducing the Issues""; ""1.1 Some Everyday Moral Utterances""; ""1.2 What are they about?""; ""1.3 The Attractions of a Popular Picture""; ""1.4 Rules: A Patch on Moralitya???s Surface? ""; ""1.5 From Angry Young Men and Women to a????""; ""1.6 Metaethics and Normative Ethics Revisited""; ""1.7 Summary and Reflection""; ""Chapter 2. Cognitivism and Noncognitivism""; ""2.1 The Basic Distinction""; ""2.2 Moral Realism and Moral Irrealism"" 327 $a""2.3 Error and Success Theories""""2.4 Moral Knowledge Again""; ""2.5 The Truth Conditions of Moral Statements""; ""2.6 Critical Reflections on the Proposed Truth Conditions of Moral Statements""; ""2.7 Divine Command Theory of Morality ""; ""2.8 Kantianism""; ""Chapter 3. Objectivist Realism under Siege""; ""3.1 A Philosophical Health Warning""; ""3.2 David Hume""; ""3.3 Humea???s Arguments Considered ""; ""3.4 Mackiea???s Argument from Queerness ""; ""3.5 So Where are We?""; ""3.6 Emotivism""; ""Chapter 4. Out on the Street""; ""4.1 The Death of God""; ""4.2 The Death of Deference"" 327 $a""4.3 Moral Disagreement""""4.4 Multiculturalism""; ""4.5 Rejection of Specific Moral Beliefs""; ""4.6 Seedy Underbelly of Conventional Morality""; ""4.7 Decline in Communal and Symbolic Life""; ""4.7 Reluctance to be Judgemental""; ""4.8 Postmodern Irony""; ""Chapter 5a???A Naturalist Objectivist Realism? ""; ""5.1 The Basic Features""; ""5.2 Moorea???s Open Question Argument""; ""5.3 Empirical Reasoning and Moral Facts ""; ""5.4 Morality and Objectivist Naturalism""; ""5.5 Ethics and Natural Disciplines""; ""Bibliography"" 330 $aThe book begins with an overview of metaethics and a rejection of the metaethics/normative ethics distinction. Chapter 1 also considers the strengths and limitations of the popular idea that morality is a set of rules for how we treat one another, pointin 410 0$aPhilosophy insights. 606 $aEthics 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a170.42 700 $aDavis$b Paul$0457221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968291203321 996 $aMetaethics explored$94481725 997 $aUNINA