Ethical Naturalism: Current Debates (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521192422)

Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early on, intuitively forceful objections by eliminativists and non-naturalists, ethical naturalism has only recently become a central player in the debates about the status of moral properties and facts which have occupied philosophers over the last century. It has now become a driving force in those debates, one with sufficient resources to challenge not only eliminativism, especially in its various non-cognitivist forms, but also the most sophisticated versions of non-naturalism. This volume brings together twelve new essays which make it clear that, in light of recent developments in analytic philosophy and the social sciences, there are novel grounds for reassessing the doctrines at stake in these debates.

Author: Susana Nuccetelli
ISBN-10: 0521192420
ISBN-13: 9780521192422
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2011
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2012