Metaethics after Moore |
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| Editor:
| Horgan, Terry
Timmons, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-926991-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $80.00 |
Book Description:
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Metaethics, understood as a distinct branch of ethics, is often traced to G. E. Moore's 1903 classic, Principia Ethica. Whereas normative ethics is concerned to answer first-order moral questions about what is good and bad, right and wrong, metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse. Moore has continued to exert a powerful influence, and the sixteen essays here (most of them...
More DescriptionMetaethics, understood as a distinct branch of ethics, is often traced to G. E. Moore's 1903 classic, Principia Ethica. Whereas normative ethics is concerned to answer first-order moral questions about what is good and bad, right and wrong, metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse. Moore has continued to exert a powerful influence, and the sixteen essays here (most of them specially written for the volume) represent the most up-to-date work in metaethics after, and in some cases directly inspired by, the work of Moore.