Format:
x, 231 Seiten
,
23 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780198858256
,
0198858256
Content:
Reality and Morality develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality, and argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms (an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism). Billy Dunaway elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to explaining possible moral disagreements. 0Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in Reality and Morality can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favour
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Dunaway, Billy Reality and morality Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780191890628
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Moralischer Realismus
